Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 2 | High-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping have been developed to a very high standard by BGS . |
| 3 | Regional geochemical studies , including high-precision and high-resolution geochemical mapping , have been developed to a very high standard by the BGS . |
| 4 | Now the estate is in the hands of Dr Douglas Wise and Coldingham Loch has been developed into a very attractive fishery . |
| 5 | Anyway , the implication of my argument , and of the neurological experiments to which I have referred , is that the functions of the left side of the brain have been developed in a very special way in the human species and that this specialization is reflected in the universals of human culture , including the general structure of language , all of which are reflections of the fact that the left side of the brain operates in binary logic . |
| 6 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 7 | At least two separate groups of birds do it , and it has been carried to a very high level of sophistication by dolphins and whales . |
| 8 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 9 | ‘ This has been done in a very formal and proper way . ’ |
| 10 | He wrote : ‘ But it is when we examine the zoology of these countries that we find what we most require — evidence of a very striking character that these great islands must once have formed a part of the continent , and could only have been separated at a very recent geological epoch . |
| 11 | An interview with this adviser subsequently confirmed that the self-appraisal was not accorded great importance : ‘ On the role of the self-appraisal , it seems to me that the whole thing has been made into a very big deal and ought not to be . |
| 12 | Arrow shafts have for years been made to a very high standard , with spiral-wrapped glass filaments and with aligned fibre composites ( AFC ) using high modulus carbon . |
| 13 | I welcome this book on two major counts : first , because it succeeds in what should be the aim of every author , that is to educate and entertain , and secondly because it has been written by a very knowledgeable person who genuinely cares for his dogs , has bred a consistent type for many years and has put as much into the ‘ dog game ’ as he has taken out . |
| 14 | Classical and classicizing treatises on rhetoric and poetics are filled with descriptions of these linguistic ornaments , most of which have been codified to a very high degree . |
| 15 | This odd reversal of polygyny has been attributed to a very high rate of ground predation whereby clutches are easily lost . |
| 16 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 17 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 18 | Only the higher levels of secondary education , from the ninth grade onwards , have continued to expand , though they have been growing from a very low base . |
| 19 | In Colombia , Trichoplusia ni NPV has been used on a very large scale against T. ni larvae on cotton . |
| 20 | Evolutionary geomorphology has been used with a very different connotation by Thornes ( 1983b ) and this is introduced in chapter 8 ( p. 182 ) . |
| 21 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 22 | This tectono-stratigraphic model has also been used in a very tentative way to predict broad facies relationships . |
| 23 | Director of Education , Keith Mitchell told the county council 's schools sub-committee that funding for six new nurseries has been preserved despite a very difficult financial year . |
| 24 | RIGHT The evidence from the site and the excavation itself has been reconstructed in a very vivid way at the Jorvik Viking centre , and is a very popular attraction for visitors from all over the world . |
| 25 | Mr Goldring said Miss Lowe had been injected with a very large amount of insulin . |
| 26 | The as I said this , this is required for identification for the organism , but the to the toxin has been recognised for a very , very long time and right from er , the early days the possibility of inactivating the biological properties of a toxin while retaining their immunological properties has been attractive to people seeking to prevent these diseases . |
| 27 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 28 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 29 | Since the 1987 general election the ranks of Conservative MPs have been reduced to a very small number . |
| 30 | Grierson said : ‘ Or been struck by a very hard , sharp object ? ’ |