Example sentences of "very [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm very supportive of the changes . |
| 2 | In the past these people have been very supportive of the police . |
| 3 | ‘ The individual products are not very profitable by the standards of a Hoechst but represent a good market for a small company . ’ |
| 4 | Sunshine on snow affects all shooters whatever position they take up , because the sun and snow together produce glare and this is very trying on the eyes — especially at ground level . |
| 5 | In addition , although not technically unfit , a house can still be very unsuitable for the needs of its occupants in terms of accommodation and access to jobs and services , aspects that are not generally the subject of legislation . |
| 6 | She 's very weak in the lungs . ’ |
| 7 | There is also one present very dear to the hearts of my family as we are terrible ‘ glove-losers ’ and can never find a pair to keep our hands warm . |
| 8 | IBM had also become very friendly with the telecommunications providers , especially the German Bundespost and British Telecom . |
| 9 | She was very young , very much one of us , very friendly , very open to suggestions , but very strong about the limitations too . |
| 10 | ‘ His poetry is sometimes very strong in the words he uses , sometimes very pretty , ’ she says . |
| 11 | There is a primitive look to them : they are small ( perhaps 100cm at the withers , and weighing 280–300kg , though they probably used to be larger ) and very narrow in the hindquarters . |
| 12 | We are all in agreement that we will return to Lourdes when the opportunity presents itself , and are very grateful to the parishioners of St Bernadette 's Parish , who donated money to pay for us to go . |
| 13 | Spokesman Roy Butler from the Preston-based charity Heartbeat which helps victims of heart attacks said : ‘ We are very grateful to the pupils at the school . ’ |
| 14 | We are very grateful to the representatives of the following groups for agreeing to speak : |
| 15 | ‘ We are very grateful for the donations we receive from charitable organisations like BLISS , but in the last two to three years there has been an additional £800,000 investment in special baby care units from Mersey region . ’ |
| 16 | Erm that 's putting it bluntly because erm obviously being a volunteer is a sort of two way thing , we could n't run without volunteers , we 're very grateful for the ones we 've got but So it 's clearly a matter of whether you decide and whether you like the way we like to run things or or not . |
| 17 | Self-representation in this way was never as systematically developed as the products of modern propaganda machines , but , as with the study of portraiture , it can be very revealing about the aspirations and claims of any regime , matters which are as interesting to the historian as the reality of what actually happened . |
| 18 | The various works on the subject are very revealing about the images of young people that prevailed . |
| 19 | Mrs Joiner was very pleasant to the children in her tone and announced success in work for Amnesty International . |
| 20 | People get very emotional over the issues involved and discussion may tend to become polarised . |
| 21 | The twentieth century would have been very different without the decisions taken by Hitler and Stalin , the speculations of Freud and Einstein . |
| 22 | His style was very different from the others but like Cagney he was a very intelligent actor with strong views and sound business instincts with regard to the films that he should make . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if there is a profusion of funds which are not consolidated , then the fund accounts will be very different from the accounts of a business . |
| 24 | But what of the objection that , while such processes probably do exist , they may be very different from the processes posited by AI ? |
| 25 | The individual clouds , identifiable as discrete features in Fig. 4 b and c , are very different from the clouds observed in the disk ; they are , on average , much denser and their velocity widths are much larger . |
| 26 | Look at an actual example of disjuncture between politics an ideas , although very different from the ones analysed by Anderson . |
| 27 | His next kiss was very different from the ones that had gone before — swift , fierce and possessive , as if he were claiming back something that had always belonged to him . |
| 28 | The result is very different from the ideas expressed in chapter 6 , where it was suggested that one of the many results of the rise of material culture as a mode of cultural form was its ability to multiply and keep apart a plethora of hierarchies and diverse spheres . |
| 29 | That makes it very different from the prisons and bridewells about which Howard wrote . |
| 30 | The kinds of people who were most aware of public opinion polls in the closing stages of the campaign were very different from the kinds of people who were most aware of them in the mid-term ( Table 7.6 ) . |