Example sentences of "very [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we believe that the child should be placed transracially as an alternative to institutional care , then social workers must resist the massive denial or evasion of the negative consequences of some transracial placements for black children when the substitute parents have not been prepared or perhaps are very unsuitable to care for a black child . |
| 2 | However , the journeys of smolts and mature salmon are often separated by several months , and so the smolts ' odour would have to be very persistent to act as a guide . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ Clearly we are very upset to hear of the death of a patient . |
| 4 | It 's very pleasant to linger in a pavement cafe here and just watch the world go by . |
| 5 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 6 | Lakes and Mountain holidays are very different to run of the mill summer holidays . |
| 7 | The people at the children 's home were very kind , but it 's not very exciting to live in a place like that , is it ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Playing at Madison Square Garden is special , it 's very exciting to play in a stadium as big as this . |
| 9 | Apart from a large range of marbled papers sold in many different colours and tones , there are also papers that are made from plant material themselves , and so would be very interesting to use in a design . |
| 10 | Certainly the French farmers were very interested to hear of the Agricultural Training Board and indicated a wish for more local practical training . |
| 11 | Shortly before this great day Vigilant 's crew had made a large seizure from a Finnish vessel berthed in the Thames , the goods concerned being unearthed from a very clever concealment , and the Queen was very interested to hear about the incident . |
| 12 | I have be very interested to hear about the recent developments and most impressed at what 's taken place , but er , I would like to ask about the international work , which I understand has been reduced . |
| 13 | You are very brave to step into the breach . |
| 14 | Even though this is a DOS program is has many of the characteristics of a Windows user-interface — drop down lists , dialog boxes and so on — and it is very easy to use with a mouse . |
| 15 | I think it 's very easy to fall into the trap of feeling guilty . |
| 16 | Improving the layout of a page , or correcting the odd error or two , is now so simple that it is very easy to fall into the trap of poor style , loose grammar , or idiomatic phrasing . |
| 17 | ‘ Chinese and Western cuisines have very different styles , but since I 've been here , I 've realised that once chefs have the chance to exchange views and work together , it 's very easy to adapt to a new style of cooking . |
| 18 | I found it very easy to go into the science sixth and nobody suggested that it was n't a ladylike thing to do . |
| 19 | I think in that position , would be very easy to stray from the straight and narrow . |
| 20 | So it 's important that they 're supported throughout by senior staff , because it 's never very easy to fit into an established team who may be used to the old ways of doing things . ’ |
| 21 | It is very easy to get into a muddle with your files , especially when you are busy or need to use several disks to store them . |
| 22 | It is very easy to get into the habit of making all of your turns to the left and a point will be reached where you will be very reluctant to turn right . |
| 23 | It is very easy to concentrate on the intonation only at the beginning , and then get slack and start imposing your mother tongue intonation on the new language . |
| 24 | Luckily , this fashion seems to have passed as such things were never very easy to eat in a dignified way . |
| 25 | The on/off switch at the top of the main handle is very easy to operate with the thumb . |
| 26 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 27 | Of course — and especially when you only want a single rose to fill a gap — it is all very easy to succumb to the highly coloured and neatly packaged entreaties to impulse buying , conspicuously displayed in supermarkets , DIY garden centres , and even the local street market . |
| 28 | Unless you practise these variants systematically it is very easy to transfer to the new language the variants of the phonemes in your own language . |
| 29 | As I knit the swatch , a ladder is created where the needles are out of work and I find it very easy to measure between the two ladders with my green ruler when the swatch is completed . |
| 30 | How very sad to die in a workhouse ! |