Example sentences of "very [adj] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has very little to do with style , innovation , or direction , says John Davidson . |
| 2 | The truths that are recognized after marriage have very little to do with chamber pots . |
| 3 | A Conservative government had emerged that the Liberty and Property Defence League could well have called its own , but as a consequence it was a government that had very little to do with Conservatism . |
| 4 | But , in the language of social anthropology , " kinship " has very little to do with biology ; it refers rather to a widely ramifying pattern of named relationships which link together the individual members of a social system in a network . |
| 5 | ‘ What you 're tempting me to at this moment , my good girl , has very little to do with passion ! ’ declared Benedict roundly . |
| 6 | She had had very little to do with Bunny , but on their occasional meetings the girl had grown more civil of late . |
| 7 | ‘ Something that 's got very little to do with goodness , ’ he grunted . |
| 8 | IN THE popular Western imagination , India continues to be a country steeped in backwardness and poverty with very little to show by way of scientific innovation or technological achievement . |
| 9 | The doctor said the body could be taken away , and when the mortuary men were lifting it , something very odd came to light — the pockets were stuffed with live rifle bullets . |
| 10 | At night , after dinner , it is very pleasant to stroll from hotel to hotel or to the many bars and small restaurants or , later , to the discothèques . |
| 11 | ‘ The maths may seem complicated , but breeding indices work very well and are very easy to use in practice . |
| 12 | No , in my school it was very easy to go into science . |
| 13 | It 's very easy to exaggerate in athletics , and five metres can become ten without much bother ; however , by the time Viktor Bryzgin got away on the anchor nobody doubted he was on his way to Soviet gold . |
| 14 | This greatly aids management and the nature of these systems makes them very easy to tie into computer control . |
| 15 | So £10,000 is not very much to spend on research . ’ |
| 16 | Firstly , er , I could assure the committee that the working party on provision of secondary and primary places which is published by the education committee , is taking the auditor 's report very seriously , and has been through it in detail , and has er , drawn up a programme of , of analysis , erm , over the next few months , very much taking into account the district auditor 's comments . |
| 17 | The central defence appeared WOODEN and very much lacking in pace . |
| 18 | In Brittany by contrast matters went very much according to plan . |
| 19 | THE first six months of the year have gone very much according to plan and most of the companies within the Food & Agriculture Division are close to their budgets . |
| 20 | Do you have very much to eat at lunch time , in between I mean you tend to eat erm take the take your big meal at lunch time or at night ? |
| 21 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 22 | Indeed , the visitor could be forgiven for being a little disappointed , although when it is floodlit at night the theatre very much comes to life . |
| 23 | Well , we seem to be a society that is very much orientated to crisis management rather than prevention , and perhaps we 're very good at recognizing our human needs and our children 's needs in terms of their nourishment , their physical and intellectual development , but perhaps not quite so well acquainted with their emotional needs to feel safe and secure with the adults around them being in control and able to handle their lives and the world 's situation in a mature and secure way . |
| 24 | A further strategic asset was the colossal citadel , the Akrokorinth , which is very hard to take by storm : its most famous capture , by Aratos of Sikyon in the third century , involved treachery . |
| 25 | As we saw in the first chapter , an adult with this sort of emotional history finds it very hard to deal with separation of any sort . |
| 26 | A machine which closes down with Michael Palin enthusing : ‘ Ah , I see you have the machine which goes PING ! ’ and which signals errors by way of Eric Idle 's angry , affronted ‘ Ni ! ’ is very hard to accuse of alienation . |
| 27 | ‘ Young people are finding it very hard to get into magic today . |
| 28 | Also it would be very hard to stay in bed and miss the evening 's fun . |
| 29 | For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system ! |
| 30 | Orange was a typical Provençal town , with streets lined with plane trees and houses with red and green shutters ; the bars and restaurants were empty save for the Legion , and there was very little to do except spend money . |