Example sentences of "very [adj] [coord] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a very political and quite a philosophical discussion , than these occasions usually are . |
| 2 | Her hair 's very straight and just an ordinary brown . |
| 3 | In the case of a planet N is very large and therefore a considerably larger quantity of volatiles can be acquired by the planet by this means than it could acquire by capturing gases directly from the PFM . |
| 4 | The pupil is very large and only a portion of the iris is present , so the eye appears dark in colour . |
| 5 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 6 | Francis de Sales , a great Christian writer , used to say : ‘ Half an hour 's daily listening is essential except when you are very busy and then a full hour is necessary . ’ |
| 7 | However a problem is that these nuclei are very small and only a few manage to collide and fuse . |