Example sentences of "very [adj] in [art] way " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stars were often very idiosyncratic in the way they wrote up their first ascents . |
| 2 | He had been very careful in the way that he spoke to her and was very apologetic when he swore . |
| 3 | Terminology is very careful in the way it is couched . |
| 4 | But we were the staff and er er my uncle Jonathan was a very victorian in every way . |
| 5 | According to my neighbour on the other side , this apartment contained something very unusual in the way of leggy redheads . |
| 6 | Apart from the training for young people there was very little in the way of practical skill training although the need was there . |
| 7 | In reflection , Nicholson remembers that apart from the task of writing a film about a new subject on which there was very little in the way of written research material , it also came at a time when he was going through his divorce . |
| 8 | There is very little in the way of documentation in the public records about those early days of L Detachment and the story of their first three months has to be pieced together from their own memories . |
| 9 | There was very little in the way of school equipment , the children sat on the floor with slates and chalk , reading books had to be shared and the rough blackboard made on the spot . |
| 10 | But for a such railway treasure there is very little in the way of the written word to appreciate its importance of place of affection in the British steam fraternity . |
| 11 | There is very little in the way of overall explanation and analysis other than to assume that the complex arises because individuals in the military and large corporations want to protect their own selfish interests . |
| 12 | From the later middle ages onwards there is very little in the way of pleas , verdicts and judgments on rape . |
| 13 | Though the thrust of the biographical sources is certainly to the effect that Molla Fenari was during these years a figure of immense importance in the state , there is very little in the way of evidence about him or his activities . |
| 14 | In doing so , one must reiterate that , as mentioned at the beginning of the chapter , one is anticipating a conclusion that will be reached in the following chapter , namely that the " Mustakimzade tradition " , for all its faults , is perhaps marginally less unsatisfactory than other accounts of the origins of the Muftilik , though as has been , and will be , seen , there is very little in the way of solid evidence even for it . |
| 15 | I 've sat on the district management board of Health Authority for four years and watched Labour Councillors coming sometimes , often not coming at all , sitting there saying nothing , debating very little in the way of useful contributions until , I have to say , Councillor came along and er a er , sorry to get you unpopular with the rest of your colleagues |
| 16 | This extended critical evaluation is a rarity in a survey , but very welcome in the way it spells out a connoisseur 's response in formal terms to a work of art . |
| 17 | That 's what we got out of Chairman and is that nine hundred thousand pounds of by simply modifying er the fire do will have provided that substantial sum of money completely reorganise review of the fire service er it would have er brought this other ten fire , whole time fire fighters etc. , etc. , and these savings because of the of those two groups over there we have to identify it 's stage , put them on the table and then be very prudent in the way this is really the . |
| 18 | Shanti and Chris were very helpful in every way , and Shanti 's ready laughter and general cheerfulness was a great comfort . |
| 19 | I often don't. erm and in some ways coming on a programme like this , or finding other ways to make your views be heard is erm I think very important in a way which me and my colleagues try to do something about the anger that we 're feeling . |
| 20 | They influence the education of children in enormously important ways , not just in terms of how many exams they pass , what results they get at O level or C S E , but on important issues such as education for democracy , the kind of climate that schools create for young people is very important in the way they see society and they see their role in it . |
| 21 | But it is very unfriendly in a way which erm has to do with the type of interaction you 've got to have . |
| 22 | What she was doing is she was talking as a person who 's got a genuine love of the theatre as we all have that 's what were doing here looking for solutions now can I 'm I 'm as I said I 'm not assassinating your character now but you 're being very intimidating in the way that your talking to people . . |
| 23 | Benjamin was clearly an ambitious and careful man , neither dissolute nor spendthrift , and was probably very conservative in every way ; he had made himself respectable in Victorian terms , generating enough of a cash surplus by a lifetime of hard work and good fortune to build up that stock of 3 per cent Bank Annuities and accumulate a healthy balance with the London Provident Savings Bank . |
| 24 | The paralleling of Sweeney and the Cyclops here does on a small scale the work of the anthropologists ' comparative method , ‘ to make manifest the similarities and identities underlying the customs of races very remote in every way from each other ’ , though both are part of the ‘ mind of Europe ’ . |