Example sentences of "very [adj] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet these examples , too , are significant , for they underline the unfortunate truth that the production and distribution of books to primary schools are important enough , financially , to attract the very largest species of shark against whom the professional at the ministry or in the centre ( who is usually no more than an average sized fish ) has little redress . |
| 2 | Bob Gunnell , of course , is an was and has been for some time a very supportive member of South East Arts and active in many of its committees . |
| 3 | We were a pioneer of a necessary but very undesirable kind of activity . |
| 4 | The foundations of personal care in families The picture which emerges from evidence about personal care given to relatives is one of very extensive amounts of support , especially at particular points in the life course . |
| 5 | We do well to remember that many can live incredibly full lives and develop a very extensive range of sympathy and understanding , who live only within a geographically and culturally restricted circle . |
| 6 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 7 | If , in addition , the judiciary then substitute their opinion as to the precise meaning that each of these terms should bear for that of the initial decision-maker , the result will be a very extensive form of review . |
| 8 | As trends move away from very hierarchical forms of management the challenge is to find , not so much the furthest point away from you to which to delegate , but the most appropriate . |
| 9 | After this we settled down to some serious patrolling and there followed a very strenuous tour of duty which lasted until the following November . |
| 10 | Oh , is it any oh is it very strenuous sort of thing ? |
| 11 | Mrs. G. is a very respectable kind of woman . ’ |
| 12 | We emphasised in section 5.1 that bills are a very liquid form of asset . |
| 13 | The third pressure comes from the push by Meekatharra Minerals to exploit the very rich deposits of lignite in Ballymoney and develop a private sector power station . |
| 14 | In such an economy , and also in the earlier phases of primitive agricultural communities , the coast and the larger river valleys provided very rich sources of food for small bands of people ; many Mesolithic sites have been recognised in such areas . |
| 15 | His is a very rich use of paint seen both in his portraits and his religious paintings . |
| 16 | In a very rich catalogue of experience , the Great Patriotic War may be worth the balance of the collection . |
| 17 | If one likes , one could ascribe this randomness to the intervention of God , but it would be a very strange kind of intervention : there is no evidence that it is directed toward any purpose . |
| 18 | All such a belief amounts to is a gesture towards something ; and a very strange sort of gesture too , for gestures are normally only comprehensible as public acts with publicly observable objects , while here the gesture is a private act with a private object . |
| 19 | This seems a very strange form of happiness ! |
| 20 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 21 | because of the very low level of cover . |
| 22 | It will be a very low level of inflation , lower than we have known at any time in recent years , and steady sustainable growth leading to secure jobs , sustaining the Conservative party in government for many years . |
| 23 | Inability to buy oil is widely interpreted to mean inability to sustain even the very low level of industrialization already achieved . |
| 24 | ( Prolonged film exposure appeared to indicate a very low level of expression in fetal tissue above the level of the tRNA background ) . |
| 25 | Further deletions which leave less than 90bp of the promoter result in a very low level of expression , suggesting the presence of a basic promoter element between -90 and -70 which is required for expression in this heterologous cell type . |
| 26 | The essence of the countryside is that it has a very low level of development , and farming and forestry predominate . |
| 27 | As indicated by the very low level of cDNA which hybridized to the 3' RNA in the absence of NCp7 ( lane 3 ) , the conditions employed did not promote the annealing of the complementary nucleic acids . |
| 28 | The links are at a very low level of explanation . |
| 29 | At the other end of the scale , there is a very low level of risk which is clearly negligible . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , in Aquitaine , the hoards show a very low level of mixing of coins from various mints , suggesting only local circulation around a single centre , and there is virtually no sign of coins entering the region from the north or north-east . |