Example sentences of "very [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we believe that the child should be placed transracially as an alternative to institutional care , then social workers must resist the massive denial or evasion of the negative consequences of some transracial placements for black children when the substitute parents have not been prepared or perhaps are very unsuitable to care for a black child . |
| 2 | However , the journeys of smolts and mature salmon are often separated by several months , and so the smolts ' odour would have to be very persistent to act as a guide . |
| 3 | This has very little to do with the quality and entertainment value of the films themselves . |
| 4 | It seems to me that there are a number of satellites ( labels like 4AD , Mute , Factory , Play it Again Sam , Product Inc , Blast First , plus various hip hop , house and electro producers whose work has very little to do with the human ) , satellites bound to Planet Pop by some kind of gravitational attraction , yet estranged by the nature of their practices ( the lost spirit of ‘ 67 and ‘ 79 ) . |
| 5 | The space they have to grow in seems to have very little to do with the size they can achieve . |
| 6 | The weakening effect of the scratch has very little to do with the amount of material removed , a shallow scratch will do nearly as well as a deep one , it is the sharpness of the re-entrant that increases the stress . |
| 7 | This , as will be seen , can be achieved through methods that have very little to do with the linguistic notion of semantics but much to do with the empirical processing of text-based knowledge sources . |
| 8 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 9 | Britain 's recent balance-of-payments problems have to date had very little to do with the general level of world demand and almost everything to do with the ability of foreign companies to introduce their products into the country at competitive prices . |
| 10 | The only memory upgrade that you have performed is to add expanded memory and this has very little to do with the operating system you are using . |
| 11 | The root of delinquency , the alienation , the violent and despairing habits of today 's young , has very little to do with the fact that their parents failed to love them — most adults look round quite desperately for something , anything to coo over , however erratically — but that their parents failed to be worthy of their love . |
| 12 | In philosophy , for example , there are numerous discussions of objects which refer to some observed attribute or perceptual property pertaining to things as such , but books with titles such as Words and Things ( e.g. Brown 1958 ; Gellner 1959 ) will be found to have very little to say about the social implications of things as objects , while having plenty to contribute to an understanding of the nature of words . |
| 13 | Pupils are seen as recipients , with very little to offer to the curriculum . |
| 14 | One has very little to offer in an interview and one sits there feeling rather embarrassed . |
| 15 | We can get rid of much of it by subduction , but certain Orogenic episodes ( notably the Hercynian ) seem to have very little to show of the ocean floor . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ Clearly we are very upset to hear of the death of a patient . |
| 17 | It 's very pleasant to linger in a pavement cafe here and just watch the world go by . |
| 18 | However , while people were in general very willing to cooperate in the data collection , it should be added that it was not always possible to collect all items of information at each stage : for example , a very severely demented person might not be able to respond to questions at all ; it was not always possible to find a medical practitioner with up-to-date information about a person 's medical condition ; respondents sometimes refused to perform all the action tests ; it was occasionally impossible to find a key informant to give , for example , information about services received by a dementia sufferer or about his/her housing circumstances . |
| 19 | Lakes and Mountain holidays are very different to run of the mill summer holidays . |
| 20 | The people at the children 's home were very kind , but it 's not very exciting to live in a place like that , is it ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Playing at Madison Square Garden is special , it 's very exciting to play in a stadium as big as this . |
| 22 | Apart from a large range of marbled papers sold in many different colours and tones , there are also papers that are made from plant material themselves , and so would be very interesting to use in a design . |
| 23 | Certainly the French farmers were very interested to hear of the Agricultural Training Board and indicated a wish for more local practical training . |
| 24 | Shortly before this great day Vigilant 's crew had made a large seizure from a Finnish vessel berthed in the Thames , the goods concerned being unearthed from a very clever concealment , and the Queen was very interested to hear about the incident . |
| 25 | I have be very interested to hear about the recent developments and most impressed at what 's taken place , but er , I would like to ask about the international work , which I understand has been reduced . |
| 26 | You are very brave to step into the breach . |
| 27 | Even though this is a DOS program is has many of the characteristics of a Windows user-interface — drop down lists , dialog boxes and so on — and it is very easy to use with a mouse . |
| 28 | I think it 's very easy to fall into the trap of feeling guilty . |
| 29 | Improving the layout of a page , or correcting the odd error or two , is now so simple that it is very easy to fall into the trap of poor style , loose grammar , or idiomatic phrasing . |
| 30 | ‘ Chinese and Western cuisines have very different styles , but since I 've been here , I 've realised that once chefs have the chance to exchange views and work together , it 's very easy to adapt to a new style of cooking . |