Example sentences of "very [adv] a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sure enough before very long a show record was broken . |
| 2 | It is very much a cash-flow decision . ’ |
| 3 | AWI 's Cel Editor maintains that method of working , and , in fact becomes very much a graphics package which has a number of screens to work on . |
| 4 | It was very much a revenge match for White — Spijkers had beaten him for a bronze in the Seoul Olympics , though then White was injured . |
| 5 | Inputs , such as , for example , a ‘ corporate capability' , are often common to more than one offering , and very much a management concern . |
| 6 | Because Mr Steed is number two to the group chief executive he says it is ‘ very much a management role rather than an accountant 's role — sometimes too much ! ’ |
| 7 | It was Paul Lexington 's party , and since courting the ticket agencies was very much a management job , Charles was surprised to notice that the producer was n't there . |
| 8 | I know that my hon. Friend will recognise that this case is very much a management matter for BR , and the decision to dismiss Mr. Brand was entirely BR 's . |
| 9 | Looking after a frail and elderly person is very much a management task . |
| 10 | Alan Pretty , a team leader in personnel services at Lincolnshire SSD , believes it is very much a management move and is not for social workers who want to continue in the caring role . |
| 11 | East Durham was very much a mining community ; and as my wife found , a prerequisite for employment was a fully paid-up , current Labour Party membership card . |
| 12 | The cereal-packet image represents , in sum , very much a minority phenomenon . |
| 13 | Grandchildren do not appear on Qureshi and Simons 's ( 1987 ) hierarchy of preferred carers , indicating that they are very much a minority group subsumed under ‘ other relatives ’ and therefore much less likely to be providing personal care than their parents ' generation . |
| 14 | 6. does it accord with a majority sentiment in most cultures and situations , or is it very much a minority opinion ? |
| 15 | Evidence from official statistics suggests that the number of households containing two or more elementary families has indeed fallen : from 3 per cent of households in 1961 to 1 per cent in 1981 ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 41 , table 2.1 ) Clearly this is , and apparently has been for some time , very much a minority arrangement within the British population as a whole . |
| 16 | Navigation was very much a specialist skill and the maps of the desert were more or less blank . |
| 17 | Traditional industrial catering is very much a specialist business focused on the oil and gas sector of the economy which , due to the remote location of its installations , requires full turnkey support services . |
| 18 | A bit of oversell occurred with the hardback at £9.99 , but it turned out alright , and I do think this is very much a paperback title . |
| 19 | His huge diocese , covering not only Northumbria itself but also the tributary territories of the Picts and the Irish colonies in western Scotland , his riches , and the numbers of his monasteries and his followers , made him very much a prince bishop . |
| 20 | … I think that this being very much a teaching hospital area … the GP becomes a second or third rate citizen . |
| 21 | This entire solo is very much a showcase example of double stop and fragmented chord playing . |
| 22 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 23 | Recalling going into Kyle , while I was at Stromefirry-nofirry , and remembering that nightmare vision of the burned-black man after the blevey — Sir Rufus with his black bones , black nails , black wood and his black jaw hinged back and very much a dental-records job — and thinking , How did they identify Andy ? |
| 24 | The business of turning bark into stoppers is very much a cottage industry , apart from a few modern factories . |
| 25 | It was very much a cottage industry : she and her two sons would drive around with books in the car , being their own distributors . |
| 26 | Today whole family groups Produce basketwork at home in what is very much a cottage industry . |
| 27 | Gumbet is very much a daytime sort of place and a great compliment to Bodrum . |
| 28 | The J/44 is very much a performance yacht , so the deck is laid out mainly for racing although careful thought has been given to cruising requirements . |
| 29 | Oslo is very much a capital city . |
| 30 | From an expressive standpoint this is very much a twentiethcentury performance , but one in which vibrato , portamento and the like are kept under strict supervision . |