Example sentences of "very [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , it is n't being approached very vigorously at the moment , er in a general sense because of two things . |
| 2 | The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country . |
| 3 | Largely as a legacy of empire , the English language has spread very widely across the world . |
| 4 | It worked on every other occasion when it was tried both th north and south and was used very widely in the republic in the past to behead the terrorist organizations . |
| 5 | One example which springs to mind very powerfully at the moment is the notion of organisation charts and the ubiquitous phrase ‘ senior management team ’ . |
| 6 | Cooper 's theme of the dying-out of the Mohican tribe is somewhat muted although it emerges very powerfully in the finale , and the whole Indian business is somewhat sidetracked by the romance , the spectacle and , most of all , the chase . |
| 7 | Also , in the context of Helm and Smith 's ( 1987 ) case for local government , ‘ The notion that central government can make judgements about local ‘ overspending ’ sits very uneasily with the rationale for decentralising redistributive functions to local governments in the first place' ( p. xix ) . |
| 8 | Dinner is excellent : locally produced meat , vegetables and cheeses , and after dinner coffee and mints are served very elegantly in the drawing room . |
| 9 | And very importantly to the accountant , the way that we can ensure that we maintain the integrity of the accounting data , is by exploiting checksum techniques in the database to ensure that the only valid way of u of updating the accounting data is through the accounting application and that 's it 's therefore properly secure and properly audit trailed . |
| 10 | Well I I I would n't er pin point the German attitude on this one , I mean after all we did collaborate with Germany very successfully on the tornado which has a nuclear role but the the four governments must first of all decide if that is what we want to build into this aeroplane and they decided that they did not at that stage . |
| 11 | Transient absorption spectroscopy using femtosecond pulses has been applied very successfully to the photodissociation and predissociation of ICN and NaC1 . |
| 12 | Leonora felt better once she was in the taxi , particularly since Penry not only held her hand , but kept his arm round her for the entire journey , taking her mind very successfully off the evening ahead by the sheer joy of just being with him after a week apart . |
| 13 | The two dégagé ladies , who traded very successfully under the name ‘ Plain and Fancy ’ at the dinner parties of the bourgeoisie of Medewich and the surrounding county , were working with that synchronised proficiency of totally competent professionals . |
| 14 | Further , they are not dealt with very successfully by the company from one or more aspects such as technology or sales or servicing . |
| 15 | One program , AUTOFRACTIONS ( see reference 3 ) , that has been used very successfully in the classroom produces large fractions on the screen in the format 4/15 = ? /60 , with the ? appearing in one of the four positions each time . |
| 16 | The evening before last I watched your father proceeding very slowly towards the dining room with his tray , and I am afraid I observed clearly a large drop on the end of his nose dangling over the soup bowls . |
| 17 | A hormone , progestogen , is injected into a muscle , and is released very slowly into the body . |
| 18 | A head of black silky hair came very slowly over the top of the rail until two dark cherry-like eyes could see over the top . |
| 19 | ( Granite masses originate at depth and rise very slowly to the surface as diapirs over millions of years . |
| 20 | I move very slowly through the utility room and into the kitchen ( another little red light clicks on ) . |
| 21 | This is generally okay in light to medium winds where the bait is moving very slowly through the water . |
| 22 | In order for this to work , the change from symmetry to broken symmetry must have taken place very slowly inside the bubble , but this is quite possible according to grand unified theories . |
| 23 | Volcanic eruptions are sometimes compared with the drama , colour and spectacle of Wagner 's operas — the ‘ Ride of the Valkyries ’ has been used very effectively as the background music to a film of some particularly lurid eruptions . |
| 24 | The mammalian egg contains no yolk whatever , but even so , the females are able to nourish their young very effectively within the womb . |
| 25 | Would he not agree er that the fact that erm the Home Office plan to give allow for seven million pounds extra er for the police budget in W in Wales whereas in actual fact local government has chosen er to give only two point two million er through the police budget er is a disgrace and reflects very badly on the running of the police authority and on the chairmanship of that committee . |
| 26 | Retributivism thus fits in well with our commonsense intuitions which insist that it is indeed morally relevant whether the person punished has behaved well , badly or very badly in the past . |
| 27 | If erm they would continue confrontation , erm it would be taken very badly by the population . |
| 28 | ‘ They were all suffering very badly from the cold . |
| 29 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 30 | So it is not surprising that his interest developed from driving them very fast and very skilfully to the point where he now heads a business specialising in accident repairs and coachbuilding with a turnover in the region of £7.5 million . |