Example sentences of "very [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subjective risk ratings , surprisingly , were only very weakly related to the objective risk of accident as assessed by the actual number of accidents divided by the average traffic flow . |
| 2 | I am naturally extremely sorry to hear of the personal circumstances that the hon. Gentleman very properly brings to the attention of the House , but he will not expect me to prejudge any issue of criminality that may arise . |
| 3 | A complex society usually includes a number of microsocieties whose ways of assigning meaning to their actions are not universally nor even very widely shared in the community . |
| 4 | Casein glues were very widely used during the war in aircraft and one day somebody discovered that the tensile strength of specimens of wet casein is one-fifth of that of dry casein . |
| 5 | In fact it has followed it up with an absolutely excellent study pack which has been very widely used within the church . |
| 6 | The corresponding TV measure , very widely used in the USA but little in the UK , is a telephone survey of the ‘ 24-hour recall ’ type . |
| 7 | Carry On is carrying on with Carry On Columbus , a brash , bawdy tale very loosely connected to the explorer 's epic voyage . |
| 8 | He sang an endless string of tuneful but meaningless words that were only very loosely attached to the long , narrative poem that went on inside his head . |
| 9 | You very rarely went to the cinema , unless you were young and middle class . |
| 10 | He very rarely goes to the Rosemount wing . ’ |
| 11 | Do n't become obsessive about weighing yourself — I very rarely step on the scales . |
| 12 | In Muslim countries , green — the colour of Mohammed 's coat — is sacred and is very rarely used as a predominant colour ; but it forms an important part of the dyer 's palette in non-Muslim cultures , particularly China ; here , the sacred colour is yellow , in which the Emperor traditionally dressed . |
| 13 | Thus gestures in the direction of participation are very rarely premissed on the basis of any considered political theory , much less on the adoption of any fundamental moral position . |
| 14 | He very rarely helped round the house , because he felt we had different jobs . |
| 15 | While I will grant you that it beats filing for the Inland Revenue , it is a suitcase existence and no matter how glamorous the location of the meeting we very rarely see beyond the airport , the hotel and the stadium . |
| 16 | Work is very rarely performed by a man without the aid of some machinery and correspondingly machines rarely function for very long without human intervention . |
| 17 | No , actually Palace , to be fair Palace very rarely play on a Wednesday . |
| 18 | Physics is very rarely discussed on the courses ; the students ' main aim is to get through the course and pass the examinations . |
| 19 | So even the most rapid changes in these things were going very , very slowly compared with the kinds of rates which we 're accustomed to seeing in the lab. erm so on the whole so far deep sea cores seem to me to suggest that really at least those beauties are really pretty gradualistic in their behaviour . |
| 20 | CFCs are only very slowly removed from the stratosphere and , with residence times in the range of 65–120 years ( Brice et al. , 1982 ) , virtually all of the CFCs ever produced ( since they were invented around 1930 ) should still be present in the stratosphere . |
| 21 | The notion that there was such a country as France , at a time when the royal authority was very little recognized outside the narrow boundaries of the royal domain , the Île de France , was fostered by the legend of Charlemagne . |
| 22 | More curiously still , by promoting the figure of Charlemagne , Otto has also been seen as contributing to the creation of the French state : ‘ The notion that there was such a country as France , at a time when the royal authority was very little recognised outside the narrow boundaries of the royal domain , the Île de France , was fostered by the legend of Charlemagne . ’ |
| 23 | I think they have very little say from the point of diagnosis to treatment of anything . |
| 24 | Refugee recipients had very little say in the administration of services and were insufficiently encouraged to do so . |
| 25 | In some societies parents do select the marriage partner for their children , but we have very little say in the partners our children choose , however strongly we may feel on the subject . |
| 26 | It is often not appreciated , at least in the U.K. that the medical profession has had very little say in the major decisions about the design of the health services . |
| 27 | Patients are at the bottom of the pecking order and have very little say in the running of services . |
| 28 | Although written around 1390 , very little changed until the arrival of oil in the late 1400s : technical analysis of Sassetta 's paintings shows that he used methods very close to those described by Cennini . |
| 29 | Indeed , even where homophobia is directly connected with a disturbing repression and/or neurosis , the actual psychic dislocation involved may be very effectively offset by the political and cultural gains of homophobic displacement . |
| 30 | Mandalay had been very badly damaged in the 1942 fighting and had hardly recovered . |