Example sentences of "have [verb] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , ’ said Philip , shivering as the bleak little wind from Severn ruffled his grey tonsure , ‘ I swear he has received very tolerable usage there , better than I dared expect , and why he keeps such a particular hatred against the lord Isambard is something I can not fathom . |
| 2 | The scheme , says Renshaw , is very flexible and she has received very good management support . |
| 3 | It claims it has given very similar results to patterns determined by stock price chartists , charlatans or alchemists depending on your viewpoint , whose work is very popular in Japan . |
| 4 | They cover a lot of ground so the designated flight area has to include very generous margins of up to an extra 50% over the line lengths and , most important , this area has to be clear of all spectators and especially other kites . |
| 5 | More recently the redoubtable Larry Sloss has presented very convincing arguments , from his very wide experience , of major episodes of emergence and submergence , both on the North American craton and on cratons generally . |
| 6 | Though it has remained in much the same place , it has undergone very extensive modifications and these have profoundly influenced the distribution of its wildlife . |
| 7 | NALGO in particular has adopted very good policies , which makes my own employment more secure , and of all the organisations listed I would suggest that NALGO 's contribution has probably been the greatest . |
| 8 | Mr Wright is an accomplished narrative historian and has made very good use of the few surviving scraps of contemporary , or nearly contemporary , accounts written by members of the various civilisations . |
| 9 | It is a point of some general importance arising under a new statute which has made very substantial changes in the law relating to contracts for the sale of land . |
| 10 | The chaotic nature of the motion suggests that in any neighbourhood of any r-value there will be many ( countably many ) r-values for which this occurs , though the different homoclinic orbits involved will happen only after the unstable manifold has made very different sequences of passes through the return plane . |
| 11 | Study of evolving populations of ammonoids has produced very fine subdivisions of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks , and their only disadvantage , curiously enough , is the feature that makes them so attractive to collectors . |
| 12 | Driven by unsophisticated and unsuccessful opportunism , this cycle has had very serious spin-off effects for both Franklin and SelecTronics . |
| 13 | More recently , philosophy has had very close links with mathematics and artificial intelligence . |
| 14 | It has had very different meanings and connotations in its long history , and is understood differently today in the context of different social and economic systems . |
| 15 | That 's why one difference for example , is that the feminist movement in Europe has got very weak ties to the political movement . |
| 16 | Oxford Union treasurer Toby Lewis said : ‘ Mr Clinton has got very fond memories of Oxford and we are very optimistic he will come here in the first two years of office . |
| 17 | ‘ My dad has got very spiky hair and glasses and his face looks like mine , but he still has all his teeth . |
| 18 | The rapid expansion of private nursing-home care over the last decade is well known and has enabled very old people to move from large wards into more homely environments . |
| 19 | To some of these countries tourism has become very big business indeed : it is the main source of income and the driving force behind the national economy . |
| 20 | The most recently introduced new degree course , Marine Biology , has experienced very buoyant application and entry rates . |
| 21 | Dr. Mawhinney has become accustomed over the years to bring in the middle of political contention and has taken very good care to cultivate his patch . |
| 22 | Boffin has created very strong ties with a number of major and independent oil companies which we feel sure will benefit our long-term success in the new venture ’ . |
| 23 | This means that farms are becoming less bureaucratic — except where amalgamation has created very large units — and the relationship between farmer and farm worker has become a much more personal one . |
| 24 | The Society has obtained very good insurance cover at a very reasonable premium . |
| 25 | The Bank has achieved very encouraging increases in interest and non-interest income in a flat economy . |
| 26 | Booksellers in particular have had to undertake very large mailing operations , and many have achieved no more than 30% response rate so far . |
| 27 | You may have heard very positive things about a local employer . |
| 28 | Had the man not have defended himself as well as he did he could well have received very serious injuries . |
| 29 | If all had gone well the husband would have earned very large sums for a long period so that he could have maintained them at least at their standard of living at the time of his death , and made other provisions for the future . |
| 30 | Alastair was a tall , handsome man , who would have looked very good striding over the heather in a kilt . |