Example sentences of "very [adv] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schools are very inadequately provided with text books , so , as we are able to buy them , we give tutorials to the teachers on how to use them with pupils . |
| 2 | The distinction between sheep of hardy and other breeds should be abolished because it is only very loosely related to degree of handicap . |
| 3 | Fortunately the police did not prosecute and she was very successfully treated with medication . |
| 4 | Schools are very rarely inspected in depth by HMI and there is a need for a more regular and systematic coverage . |
| 5 | In general , credit is very rarely used for food . |
| 6 | Punishment is something which is very rarely associated with virtue , and more often is undertaken with reluctance . |
| 7 | Much will be gained by the individual and very little lost to society . |
| 8 | — I believe I am anything but candid : in fact — I am naturally suspicious — & exceedingly reserved , the first good quality arises from my having seen plenty of the evil part of the world from my youth up — the second from being but very little used to company or society — for — excepting Mr. Yarrell — ( whom Mrs. Hewitson & Atkinson know , ) — to whom I go to study bones & muscles — I do n't know a single person in all London to visit intimately . ’ |
| 9 | However , despite the ingenuity of Shklovsky 's efforts , it became clear that the differential principle behind poetry could not be very extensively or very effectively applied to prose , and the functional opposition had to be constructed on rather different lines . |
| 10 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 11 | That the building exists at all is a wonder , as it was very badly damaged in World War II . |
| 12 | In 1803 the chapel was very badly damaged by flood , and the image of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres was washed out to sea . |
| 13 | Another kind of formal connection in monologic discourse is very intimately related to dialogue with an imagined receiver . |
| 14 | But in order to respond fully , our active participation as spectators is very obviously called into play — as well as called into question . |
| 15 | The experiments of Dr O'Shaughnessy and others during the cholera of 1831–2 show that the amount of water in the blood was very much diminished in proportion to the solid constituents , as also were the salts Well , the basis of my treatment of cholera is quite simply to try to restore the fluid and salts which have been lost from the blood , by injecting solutions of carbonate of soda or phosphate of soda into the blood vessels . |
| 16 | Food preferences are very much dictated by habit , and those who get into the habit of choosing the fibre-rich foods gradually come to prefer them . |
| 17 | Education is very much based on trial and error though schools which specialise in the education of the autistic child have developed common aims . |
| 18 | ‘ At that time , and to a large extent even now , Television was very much based in Theatre . |
| 19 | The second or third lots of clients sent along by Pinkie , an insurance broker and his wife , who wanted somewhere to give occasional parties in summer , at high tide only , were very much taken with Dreadnought . |
| 20 | ‘ It is particularly pleasing that Councillor Thorne will be able to carry out this duty ’ said Jackie Cope , the Museum 's Curator , ‘ he is very much associated with tourism issues and the regeneration of Keighley as a whole . ’ |
| 21 | Nevertheless , their interest articulation role is very much qualified in practice in the sense that ‘ unions are asked to act as filters rather than as mouthpieces ’ ( Pravda , 1983 ) , passing on shopfloor grievances to management or higher union bodies . |
| 22 | It is a romantic adventure set in a time when the role of women was very much restricted by dress and their rights , but compared to ‘ Anna Karenina ’ it is a modern novel , first published in 1941 . |
| 23 | The rooms are high-ceilinged , with large windows and marble fireplaces ( some with ‘ coal effect ’ fires ) , and are very prettily decorated in light , flowery wallpapers and fabrics . |
| 24 | Political attitudes were very largely determined by partisanship , but not completely . |
| 25 | Widespread looting of the kind which had disfigured almost every war of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries was very largely brought under control in this period ( in the interests of discipline rather than humanity ) . |
| 26 | All the rooms sleep two and are very comfortably furnished with TV , air-conditioning and private bath , shower and WC . |
| 27 | Lisburn , with a 13-point cushion , go to Strangford Road at the top of their form and if they can come away with a maximum haul of 22 points , will be very comfortably placed at home to North the following week , with the prospect of the trophy making its way back to Wallace Park for the first time since 1980 . |
| 28 | In architectural style these churches are generally tall , like the Armenian ones , but very richly decorated in brick and stone . |
| 29 | The costs involved in private medical insurance schemes have been rising very rapidly compared with inflation generally . |
| 30 | Thus UK competition policy is very clearly directed at market behaviour and conduct that affects the supply of goods and services within the United Kingdom . |