Example sentences of "for [art] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr President , fellow members of Probus , I on your behalf would like to propose a vote of thanks to John , for the very lucid explanation he 's given to us on the operations of Trent Water .
2 It may well be , however , that for the very small minority of very high income-earners where the maximum rates of direct taxation apply , taxation may have disincentive effects .
3 Direct access to university libraries is still required for those theses deposited before the individual university began participating in the BLDSC microfilming scheme , and for the very small number of UK universities which do not take part in that scheme .
4 In 1896 the ‘ Ratepayers and Inhabitants in Parish Meeting assembled [ resolved to ] hereby accord the Rev R. Burdon their grateful thanks for the very great interest he continues to show in the Parish … and hereby express their ernest ( sic ) and unanimous wish that his health might very speedily be restored and his life be prolonged for many years . ’
5 Microsoft had i860s in its labs , but its engineers , whilst reportedly ‘ not un-impressed ’ with the part , ‘ did n't want to spend the next six years writing assembler code , ’ for the very complex processor , and shelved the port .
6 In windy conditions it is excellent practice in controlling the model even for the very experienced flyer .
7 But except for the very largest corporations with the most extensive resources , the majority of organisations have seen the wisdom — and overall cost-benefit — of bringing in outside experts when required .
8 This amount of memory is adequate for the very largest entry .
9 ‘ MPs do n't seem to go for the very expensive end of the Indian restaurant market , ’ says Peter Grove .
10 I must emphasise that this is only for the very good golfer .
11 " Thank you for the very good work you have done here , " he said .
12 said : ‘ I would like to thank all the people responsible for the Company and for the very good way that the business was handed over .
13 Combined degrees in e.g. Physiology and Pharmacology mean that the student ( except for the very good ones ) is master of neither and in terms of future employment ( Ph.D .
14 By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal .
15 Feminists began by arguing that sex differences are artificial and insignificant , for the very good reason that the idea of natural differences had so often been used to justify discriminatory treatment against women .
16 All governments and powerful groups seek to acquire legitimacy , for the very good reason that it is the most efficient and stable basis for exercising power .
17 In fact , although George Wigg was close to Wilson , he never enjoyed the same intimate relationship , for the very good reason that he was a politician and did not enjoy Wilson 's undivided trust .
18 And this for the very good reason that the only relevant decision on the fiduciary duty — Prescott v. Birmingham — had been immediately negatived by Parliament in its application to the power of local transport authorities to fix the level of fares .
19 The argument failed for the very good reason that the disposition of the company 's property took place when the charge was created and not when the charge was enforced ; the floating charge is an existing charge and not one arising in the future when the charge is enforced or when it crystallises .
20 The point is that if there were only one planet that had ever borne life , then it would have to be our planet , for the very good reason that ‘ we ’ are here discussing the question !
21 The answer is that managerial hierarchy is and will remain the only way to structure unified working systems with hundreds , thousands or tens of thousands of employees , for the very good reason that managerial hierarchy is the expression of two fundamental characteristics of real work .
22 It is what makes the difference between the phrase ( 30 ) , where the first-order relation is of course qualification , and the completeness of ( 31 ) : ( 30 ) lucky Gomez ( 31 ) Gomez is lucky Similarly , this is the difference which opposes ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) , where the relation assigned is equation rather than qualification : ( 32 ) the broker , a man in a grey suit ( 33 ) the broker was a man in a grey suit The notion of " completeness " may seem vague ; again , however , we should not expect it to be defined more closely for the very good reason that fundamental notions — and we take assignment together with equation and qualification , along with the ideas of entity and property , to be the bedrock of linguistic structure — do not allow themselves to be defined .
23 It also showed that these consequences occur not only in those who are severely injured , but also for the very many people who suffer minor injury or are uninjured .
24 Yet the citizens clung to their traditional way of life out of custom and love of their cities ; and for the very practical advantage it gave them in their favourite pastime of warfare against their neighbours .
25 Kings wanted to build up reserves of bullion for the very practical reason that it would enable them to recruit armies , and it was also true that gold and silver had a great power to dazzle men 's minds .
26 ‘ Tops ’ or soundboards are made from just two woods : Swiss pine for the very best instruments , Western red cedar for the others .
27 It 's the sort of shabby restaurant you can still find in France : radishes and butter and spiced olives for nibbles , enormous roses plonked on the table and football on the TV in a back room are the setting for the very best pommes frites and memorable dishes of brains a beurre blanc and kidneys in garlic .
28 Our experienced editors comb the publishers ' lists continually for the very best books for children — of all ages .
29 It was an alarming experience for the very first aid workers to reach them .
30 For the very first time , the leadership of all the major constitutional nationalist parties in Ireland , representing 90 per cent of the nationalist population , had abandoned the concept of the tyranny of the majority will .
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