Example sentences of "have a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another American film of that year , A Workingman 's Dream , has a very weary hero who fails to find a job at a factory ; he falls asleep and dreams of a Professor Wonderful who offers him instant wealth and a new set of clothes , but he is told that these new gains will disappear if he breaks certain simple instructions ; on three occasions he accidentally carries out simple actions which break the instructions and his wealth disappears ; he wakes up to see an ambulance taking a worker from the factory — there is a vacancy and this time his application is successful . |
| 2 | The scientific prediction of a person 's limitations , and thus his possible fate , has a very dangerous component in that it may lead the individual to inaction and despair . |
| 3 | ‘ She has a very acute awareness of the need to inform the public , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ He has a very strong character and poetry , painting and football are just different ways of expressing himself . |
| 5 | ‘ It has a very strong structure and storyline . ’ |
| 6 | She has a very strong sense of duty and a great capacity for making relationships , and so far , by some miracle , perhaps because of the very close bond between her and her mother , her experience does not seem to have coarsened her or made her cynical . |
| 7 | She became close to both women and , although she still saw her mother from time to time and still has a very strong relationship with her that has not been diminished by the divorce , a special bond was forged with the two older women . |
| 8 | Holden has a very strong relationship with his younger sister Phoebe , and his younger brother Allie who died recently . |
| 9 | He will take in the Cookstown 100 , as he has a very strong supporters club there , and the North West 200 , provided he can fit in the following day 's Donington Park meeting . |
| 10 | It has a very strong consumer awareness and is recognized as a premium label , appealing to a wide range of customers from the mid-20s upwards . ’ |
| 11 | He plays fluently across its full range but also has a very strong jazz feeling , stretching and bending notes for greater expression . |
| 12 | Cornwall has a very strong identity as a separate community and the present arrangement which links Cornwall with West Plymouth , I believe benefits neither area . |
| 13 | Even a writer such as Elizabeth Roberts , who has a very strong view of women 's sense of responsibility towards their relatives during this period , acknowledges that old people living with relatives but unable to contribute any longer to the household economy might well be ‘ neglected ’ or ‘ pushed into a corner ’ through force of circumstances : ‘ Although the duty to care for relatives was a paramount one , rarely ignored , it is also true to say that the quality of care varied from the dreadful to the superb ’ ( Roberts , 1984 , p. 179 ) . |
| 14 | Er the worst side obviously will be the drill bit side where Retool is not very significant in the North Sea Hycal on the other hand has a very strong market presence here er and Reler being submersible pumps and base based in enhanced recovery I would say the effect would be relatively neutral , though they do a lot of business with companies like B P who are said to be one of the beneficiaries . |
| 15 | Whilst recognising that the 16–25 age group has a very strong claim to any manpower which might become available , the question arises as to whether it would be better placed at , for example , deanery level serving the needs of the whole age group rather than in an educational establishment serving an important but small minority . |
| 16 | An enthusiastic organic-only company that ‘ will probably drop any wines that do n't get the EC seal of approval ’ , which is a shame , but it has a very strong list of certified wines . |
| 17 | Bear in mind that foot health has a very low rating on a " need to know " basis for a mother with a baby only a few weeks old . |
| 18 | As each servo may consume up to 1A when driving to a new position it is important that the supply has a very low output impedance and NiCad batteries are usually recommended for multi-servo systems . |
| 19 | The essence of the countryside is that it has a very low level of development , and farming and forestry predominate . |
| 20 | However , unless the pond has a very low stocking level , there will not be enough natural food available to maintain the fish in good condition . |
| 21 | Oxfam has a very low profile in Ireland , although other agencies are very active in schools . |
| 22 | ‘ Expansion elsewhere in the USA has a very low priority for us , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ Expansion elsewhere in the USA has a very low priority for us , ’ he said . |
| 24 | In contrast , petty theft has a very low rate of reporting to the police , and a low detection rate . |
| 25 | Wild rice has a very nutty flavour and takes a long time to cook . |
| 26 | ‘ it is not the great mass of publications ( each constituting but a minor increment to the sum of human knowledge ) which contribute most to scientific progress , but a small number of key papers , each of which has a very great impact on the advance of knowledge … only a very few elite scientists produce work that becomes the base for future discoveries . ’ |
| 27 | However , it has a very small range ( 7.1 to 7.5 ) and is not of real interest to the binocular observer . |
| 28 | Many workers begin immediately with detailed study under medium to high power on a petrographic microscope which has a very small field of view . |
| 29 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |
| 30 | This stance has a very small target profile indeed , though it is wide open to the foot sweep and also reduces the competitor 's choice of technique to the back fist or the side kick . |