Example sentences of "very [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1803 the chapel was very badly damaged by flood , and the image of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres was washed out to sea . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Political attitudes were very largely determined by partisanship , but not completely . |
| 5 | Of course , Britain 's bosses have to be setting an example and obviously leadership has to emanate from the top , and is very often done by example . |
| 6 | Not only are worm casts rich in plant nutrients , but are in a crumb form some ⅛ in. in diameter which can be very efficiently exploited by plant root hairs from all sides . |
| 7 | Overall in South America , some 22 per cent of the arid regions are severely or very severely affected by desertification and there are few remedial programmes in hand . |
| 8 | We we 're we are market leaders in that we are very well known by estate er estate agent companies and er and of course er advertisers . |
| 9 | It 's an industrial city , it 's a working class city , it 's a city that has been very very hard hit by recession . |