Example sentences of "very [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And because , as we saw in Chapter 1 , the number of different ways of being dead is so much greater than the number of different ways of being alive , the chances are very high that a big random jump in genetic space will end in death . |
| 2 | From this brief résumé of the sources available to social researchers it should now be very clear that a vague wander through the bookshelves of the library is inefficient and time-wasting . |
| 3 | The bridge across the gjøgv seemed very slender and a long way above the sea surging below , but we made our way safely across and walked out to the end of the hølmur to where we could overlook the gannet colony . |
| 4 | At that point it was viewed very much as a short-term arrangement , with more suitable employment to be sought come the winter . |
| 5 | He did see himself very much as a responsible figure as far as other people 's well being was concerned when it came to this , and this was probably based on the fact that his step-brother , Terry , by his mother 's previous marriage , was classified as schizophrenic , a problem which David felt could be hereditary . ’ |
| 6 | We had decided very early that a useful little earner would be to provide B & B facilities catering mainly for railway enthusiasts and the building and grounds should therefore be returned to something like their original appearance . |
| 7 | So up until then , being very cautious and a canny Scot , I hung the instrument wrapped in a piece of rag outside the window of my bed space on a nail , just in case somebody came round whilst we were either at school or the workshops . |
| 8 | Henry Veitch , from Selkirk in Scotland , was very colourful and a well-liked figure in Madeira . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's very sad when a noble family dies out , ’ he said . |
| 10 | She was a pretty girl with fair curly hair and brown eyes , very self-possessed and a good dancer . |
| 11 | This may be difficult when the warren is very large and a corresponding number of purse nets is needed but when working on burrow systems , rather than on the much larger warrens , twenty nets are often sufficient . |
| 12 | It is very likely that a high proportion of the clergy in the tenth and eleventh centuries were hereditary clergymen . |
| 13 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 14 | No trade union leader seems to have been very confident that a national stoppage would be a success . |
| 15 | Some will say that that is all very well as a conceptual distinction . |
| 16 | The strings feel very bendable and a low , choke-free action tells me that all is well with the neck . |
| 17 | When a kick is employed by an attacker , the force behind it is very powerful and a head-on clash may well break the defender 's arm . |
| 18 | England , on the other hand , had a comparatively short Romanesque period of development following an extensive Saxon one but a very long and a unique building period in Gothic architecture emerging into a tardy Renaissance , nearly the last in Europe except for that of the Iberian peninsula . |
| 19 | Nellie was very good and a natural musician who could play without looking at the piano which meant she could watch the dancing at the same time . |
| 20 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 21 | ‘ The response was again very good and a lively question and answer session told me that the students found the talk helpful , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Because as I 've said to you before , I think it 's very important that a new settlement is provided somewhere within Greater York . |
| 23 | It is very important that a peace-keeping force should not be sent to Yugoslavia until there is a peace to keep , and until it is clear that all the warring parties both invite and allow that peace-keeping force to operate . |
| 24 | It is very important that a particular report can be found quickly , even after years ; it might be needed to establish some point or to provide evidence in an argument or court case . |
| 25 | This is very important because a tactically-minded competitor can crowd an inexperienced opponent out of the area , picking up points without even exchanging a technique . |
| 26 | It is very unlikely that a Labour Prime Minister would be deprived of his seat in this way , but it deserves to be noted that , however unwittingly , a piece of machinery has been created which could be used locally to deprive a Labour Prime Minister of his seat . |
| 27 | It is very unlikely that a solar panel would chop your hand off if you accidentally put it in the wrong place , but the 36 in ( 91cm ) span of the larger wind generators can be deadly . |
| 28 | Mrs Binks was very fat and a filthy dress hung shapelessly on her as she slumped , cigarette in mouth , over the kitchen table She was absorbed in a magazine which lay in a clearing among mounds of dirty dishes and her curlers nodded as she looked up briefly at us . |
| 29 | These proved very successful and a glowing report came from the Establishment . |
| 30 | It was small , or perhaps it was very big but a long way off . |