Example sentences of "very [adj] to [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I am not so very used to calculating the tides , Mrs James , said Heinrich in a pleasant conversational tone . |
| 2 | But listening to you make that case it 's very similar to reading the great debate on franchise reform in this House in the last century , when people said we should be included and that people like us should be able to have the vote and put people into Parliament , it 's I mean it was just that you were you were making that plea about pro that the Board should be representative as being like the group who are benefiting . |
| 3 | ‘ Everybody here is very committed to making the company survive the recession . |
| 4 | Manchester-based Mark , at No. 19 with I Found Heaven , reveals : ‘ My mum did n't want me wasting my time trying to be a pop star and I came very close to quitting the group . |
| 5 | The composer 's extensive treatment of this theme comes very close to toppling the first movement 's structure in some versions , where virtually every note is caressed to the point of near-suffocation . |
| 6 | He explained that if the money was n't raised it would destroy confidence , and anyhow such an unusual move would be very close to breaking the rules about soliciting investment . |
| 7 | I have stuck with Esquire longer than I have stuck with any other men 's magazine and I feel that the magazine is now getting very close to achieving the ideal balance of content and format . |
| 8 | Freud came very close to seeing the individual of modern Western society as being an abstraction from group psychology . |
| 9 | However , in recent years , improvements in sliphouse processing have come very close to eliminating the problem . |
| 10 | Cleveland county councillor Mr Keith Legg said that ‘ sensible and prudent budgeting ’ meant the county council had come very close to estimating the actual pay rise when drawing up spending plans for the coming financial year . |