Example sentences of "very [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And very importantly to the accountant , the way that we can ensure that we maintain the integrity of the accounting data , is by exploiting checksum techniques in the database to ensure that the only valid way of u of updating the accounting data is through the accounting application and that 's it 's therefore properly secure and properly audit trailed . |
| 2 | Transient absorption spectroscopy using femtosecond pulses has been applied very successfully to the photodissociation and predissociation of ICN and NaC1 . |
| 3 | ( Granite masses originate at depth and rise very slowly to the surface as diapirs over millions of years . |
| 4 | So it is not surprising that his interest developed from driving them very fast and very skilfully to the point where he now heads a business specialising in accident repairs and coachbuilding with a turnover in the region of £7.5 million . |
| 5 | If the answer leads very naturally to the truth , it is nevertheless mistaken , as is shown by the philosophically familiar but evergreen fact that certain items constitute an instance of such a uniform connection or constant conjunction , but the second is not the effect of the first . |
| 6 | Maxim lifted him very gently to a sitting position . |
| 7 | The point of the iron should then be applied very gently to the seam only . |
| 8 | Our kirk session was one which objected very strenuously to the use seven times of the male pronoun in the section on the holy spirit . |
| 9 | You can turn off very soon to the right , and climb up to make a wonderfully airy and spectacular circuit of the very open , grassy high ground , before hair pinning down the other side on to the Valcarlos road at Arnéguy . |
| 10 | The rise in the quality of French tennis over the last 20 years , culminating in the emergence of players such as Yannick Noah , Henri Leconte and now Guy Forget , coupled with the transformation of the French Open at Roland Garros into what the majority of players regard as the best organised of the four Grand Slams ( even though Wimbledon remains favourite as to the one they most want to win ) are due very largely to the leadership he has shown . |
| 11 | As the Tory Party debated the ‘ make-believe gangsters strolling about the streets as if they are the monarchs of all ’ , the conference hall rang with an entirely familiar pattern of complaints and accusations : ‘ the leniency shown in the past by the Courts of this country ’ ; the ‘ lack of parental control , interest and support ’ ; the ‘ sex , savagery , blood and thunder ’ in films and television ; and the ‘ smooth , smug and sloppy sentimentalists who contribute very largely to the wave of crime ’ so that young people were ‘ no longer frightened of the police , they sneer at them ’ . |
| 12 | They went to the pub with Air Marshal 's ranking chalked on their uniforms , windows were smashed to prove that broken glass need not draw blood , there were tremendous fights , he lived at the local hall , there was game , there were bounties we never saw in London — he sailed very very close to the law during that period . ’ |
| 13 | With the changes in the political environment and the climate globally and continentally , some companies which have grown and built their considerable business on the production of arms now find themselves in a changed situation ; many have moved very rapidly to the formulation of new products and services quite distinct from their original product base . |
| 14 | Only two days after meeting Julie by the Serpentine in Hyde Park matters had come very quickly to a head . |
| 15 | As for London , a three-fold increase in tonnage cleared did not lead very quickly to a solution to the severe congestion of the Pool , on which was concentrated a cargo handling facility employing 120,000 men . |
| 16 | At the bar of the Globe Inn talk between the landlord and a Mr Woodhouse of Stowey turned very quickly to the subject of ‘ those Rascalls from Alfoxden ’ and of John Thelwall , who had left for Bristol two weeks earlier . |
| 17 | Now turning from the structure very quickly to the style , one has I suppose to underline Proust 's insistence that a writer 's style must grow organically out of his thought , out of his conception of reality . |
| 18 | She walked very quickly to the side of the stage , was absent for two minutes , then returned . |
| 19 | Throughout his life Picasso always reacted very directly to the stimulus of events in his day-to-day life , and the acquisition of two fragments of antiquity from his native land must undoubtedly have fired his imagination . |
| 20 | • During the first few days , expose the skin very gradually to the sun , especially if you are fair skinned . |
| 21 | Another effect of water-borne sound is that the dolphin " sees " its prey very differently to the bat . |
| 22 | The world and its leaders reacted very differently to the news of Ceauşescu 's fall : Westerners , even those who had flattered him , rejoiced , but the rulers of Third World or Communist states mourned him — not only for his own violent end , but also because they saw it as a premonition of their own impending fates . |
| 23 | ‘ Bully , ’ said Angela , speaking very earnestly to the alsatian , ‘ here 's your chance to make up for the naughty things you 've done to me . |
| 24 | In March 1988 considerable consternation was created , not least among teachers who had generally responded very positively to the TGAT report , by the leak of a letter about the report from the Prime Minister 's secretary to Kenneth Baker 's secretary . |
| 25 | Silence , and Ward turned to Iris Sunderby with a smile that was very near to a smirk . |
| 26 | They were standing very near to the door to her room . |
| 27 | The hotel is very near to the beach ; indeed , its marine view , as far as Rainbow can tell , is its only conceivable virtue . |
| 28 | The sand grains themselves are confined to a layer very near to the surface and thus their erosive effect is very limited in vertical extent , while surface creep can obviously affect only an extremely limited vertical range . |
| 29 | But after much thought the constable did vaguely recall noticing a car parked very near to the corner of Boundary Drive , not near enough to constitute a danger , but near enough for him to notice it . |
| 30 | I would hope however that the committee members at North Yorkshire will see that the local feeling is so deep that the project itself can not be harmed by a public inquiry and they will make er they will take the decisions which will put this application in that direction and send that message very clearly to the Secretary of State . |