Example sentences of "very [adj] and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Scherzo , the playing is very concentrated and incredibly exciting . |
| 2 | We have seen how , from the workers ' point of view , rationalised labour and practices can mean a very constraining and potentially unstable working environment . |
| 3 | ‘ I know he 's very durable and very fit and comes to fight . |
| 4 | An intuition that this is indeed so may be very difficult to substantiate if the attributions made by members of the dominant society are very loud and very visible , and those of the members of the microsociety hard to come by , perhaps because those members are not easy to contact . |
| 5 | It was very loud and very late . |
| 6 | A danger of including too much in a simulation is that the results get very extensive and perhaps difficult to comprehend . |
| 7 | Her father was very rich and very proud , with only one child , Miss Havisham , by his first wife . |
| 8 | Mr D'Arcy had been very , very rich and very shrewd . |
| 9 | A very rich and therefore powerful man , as head keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert had the pick of all the prisoners ' possessions as well as the sale of concessions , be it beds , sheets , coals , drink , food , even a wench . |
| 10 | A life-story can often liven up what has become a very dry and even boring area of social research . |
| 11 | The text tends to concentrate on visual descriptions of the paintings along with discussions of iconography and patronage that are both very complete and pleasingly sober in their analysis . |
| 12 | Something very strange and very strong . |
| 13 | The Glasgow underground railway system like the London underground counterpart has some very strange and totally unexplained events . |
| 14 | The other problem with the concept of consent is simply that it is susceptible of very weak and even negative interpretations . |
| 15 | Mrs. Crawley is the most typical woman of the three discussed — she looks after her husband , cooks his meals , hardly ever reproaches him and she bore his children — very admirable and very boring . |
| 16 | Note that the load each decade places on the previous decade is not serious because the output impedance of a section is very low and essentially resistive while the input impedance of a decade is large and inductive . |
| 17 | As for the two factors together , the risks appear greatest where very low and very high ( 35 and over ) maternal age combines with short birth intervals and where women over age 34 have children after intervals of 6 and more years . |
| 18 | Now , it happens that is a very controversial and highly questionable economic proposition . |
| 19 | Lonsdale Ridge £4.98 We found this had a smooth rounded flavour that was very palatable and very easy to drink . |
| 20 | They are presented here in chronological order and mostly without comment , as their very specific and often personal nature makes them impossible to qualify . |
| 21 | This split made him simultaneously very alert and extremely absent-minded , now on the ball , now off in a world of his own . |
| 22 | We 'll just have to be very alert and very low-profile . ’ |
| 23 | With older sufferers , erm , usually families are excluded from treatment , they 're kept out , they 're told that they 're daughter erm must be seen on her own and they feel very helpless and very unloved and unsupported by by the professionals . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's very discreet and extremely civil — but he never answers questions about Diana . ’ |
| 25 | He felt very solid and very big . |
| 26 | Arabel has found a very friendly and very mischievous raven . |
| 27 | Members of such groups are usually very friendly and so grateful that people turn up to their performances that they are quite often there to smile and chat to visitors at the door . |
| 28 | He was very tall and very polite , taking his cap off before he said , in a soft , drawly voice , ‘ Major Harper , Ma'am . |
| 29 | One of the passenger doors opened and a very tall and very black-skinned man climbed slowly into the sunlight . |
| 30 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |