Example sentences of "[to-vb] very [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The model is able to mimic very closely the actual behaviour of the golfer . |
| 2 | The criteria mentioned above have often been employed , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , in the construction of very broad evolutionary schemes , but these have been increasingly criticized — in Marxist thought as elsewhere — for their excessively abstract depiction of the ‘ stages of development ’ which seem to fit very loosely the actual changes in political systems in different regions of the world and in determinate historical periods . |
| 3 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 4 | There is space here only to summarise very briefly the large amount of research on pidgin and Creole languages . |
| 5 | More important , however , the large organisations with which we had contact had all sought to make very clear the precise status of their casual staff . |
| 6 | The select committee then went on to recommend very much the same principles as the Fulton Committee wanted to see adopted widely in the civil service . |