Example sentences of "very [adj] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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1 | This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases . |
2 | It was all very well picking at the past like this if it helped to exorcise the demons , but he was n't sure that was what William wanted . |
3 | All of these are still very cumbersome to use at the present stage of development but there is no doubt that they will improve . |
4 | It would be very difficult to arrive at the same conclusion in 1988 . |
5 | I think it 's very difficult to assess at the moment whether or not it 's impossible , I would n't say it 's impossible . |
6 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |