Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 2 | The ballad-type songs of the day sung by such as Tony Bennett , Rosemary Clooney , Doris Day , Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra , plus the great classical music she had heard from her youth , facilitated Masha Cohen 's overcoming of her personal nightmares , and had become — along with the very important Yiddish music — the natural background to Leonard 's life , too . |
| 3 | But if predictability broke down in the very strong gravitational fields in the big bang , it could also break down whenever a star collapsed . |
| 4 | We decided to forget about the third canister and made off across the cornfield at speed , the jeep bouncing up and down on the very uneven surface . |
| 5 | Much the biggest is the Electricity Corporation ( NZ$3.3bn ) , followed by the Earthquake and War Damage Commission ( NZ$1.5bn ) , right down to the very capable NZ Symphony Orchestra ( NZ$0.002bn — about £600,000 ) . |
| 6 | I mentioned in my original article that at its upper end the Minuet spills over into the very fast dance the Viennese called a ‘ Deutsche ’ or ‘ Teutch ’ ( Mozart : ‘ Teitsch ’ ) . |
| 7 | ‘ It'a sport which can teach agility and movement at a basic level through to the very high skill levels required to compete at the top . |
| 8 | The early campaigns seem to continue through to the very different style used today . |
| 9 | In the blue corner , we have the ‘ JD Telecaster ’ , the Japanese-made version of the very same instrument , and one you can probably pick up for the very interesting price of £400 or less . |
| 10 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 11 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 12 | I went across the course to the stands side to see the horses in the paddock , and then I went up to the very comfy Tribune des Dames , for which the French Racing Authorities so generously send me a badge each year . |
| 13 | As I 've tried to suggest , many books do not face up to the very evident problems confronting psychology , but it does seem that the discipline is alive and kicking . |
| 14 | By the time the taxi driver pulled up outside the very normal house in the very normal street in one of the suburbs of Nice she had pretty much convinced herself that she was slowly going insane . |
| 15 | A number of significant problems for the distinction between anaphora and discourse deixis have been thrown up by the very considerable body of work on pronominalization ( see Lyons , 1977b ; Lyons , 1977a : 662ff for a review ; and for recent work , see e.g. Heny & Schnelle , 1979 ) . |
| 16 | The detail of the proposals on contributions was , of course , fully set out in the very full statement that I made to the House by way of a written answer at the same time as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's autumn statement on 6 November . |
| 17 | The trade of elephant catching and training is likely to die out in the very near future . |
| 18 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 19 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 20 | However , a B II site at this junction can be ruled out by the very high chemical shift of the associated phosphate . |
| 21 | Certainly I felt , for the first time , that sense of anticipation , of excitement almost , at the prospect ahead of me — a journey down the whole coast of South America , and then on to the very southernmost rim of the world . |
| 22 | But he adds : ‘ We would expect the French economy to remain relatively weak for at least the next year because its main trading partner , Germany , is itself entering what is likely to be quite a painful economic slowdown , brought about by the very high interest rates . ’ |