Example sentences of "very [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schools are very inadequately provided with text books , so , as we are able to buy them , we give tutorials to the teachers on how to use them with pupils . |
| 2 | The distinction between sheep of hardy and other breeds should be abolished because it is only very loosely related to degree of handicap . |
| 3 | Fortunately the police did not prosecute and she was very successfully treated with medication . |
| 4 | ‘ But then I very rarely come into contact with Jeff . |
| 5 | These fish are best bought when young , as the larger wild-caught ones very rarely adapt to life in an aquarium , refusing food no matter what persuasion is used . |
| 6 | Schools are very rarely inspected in depth by HMI and there is a need for a more regular and systematic coverage . |
| 7 | And of course they 'd never They very rarely thought of washing clothes in tap water those days , it was all rainwater . |
| 8 | In general , credit is very rarely used for food . |
| 9 | Punishment is something which is very rarely associated with virtue , and more often is undertaken with reluctance . |
| 10 | We tend to have , but they never , they very very rarely occur in isolation . |
| 11 | He very rarely spoke about business matters to Georgina and decided on reflection against recounting the day 's events except to say that he was leaving for Istanbul in the morning , and would be away for three or four days . |
| 12 | Encouraged by her lack of resistance , he very slowly began to inch down the waist band of her panties . |
| 13 | Much will be gained by the individual and very little lost to society . |
| 14 | — I believe I am anything but candid : in fact — I am naturally suspicious — & exceedingly reserved , the first good quality arises from my having seen plenty of the evil part of the world from my youth up — the second from being but very little used to company or society — for — excepting Mr. Yarrell — ( whom Mrs. Hewitson & Atkinson know , ) — to whom I go to study bones & muscles — I do n't know a single person in all London to visit intimately . ’ |
| 15 | However , despite the ingenuity of Shklovsky 's efforts , it became clear that the differential principle behind poetry could not be very extensively or very effectively applied to prose , and the functional opposition had to be constructed on rather different lines . |
| 16 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 17 | That the building exists at all is a wonder , as it was very badly damaged in World War II . |
| 18 | In 1803 the chapel was very badly damaged by flood , and the image of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres was washed out to sea . |
| 19 | Another kind of formal connection in monologic discourse is very intimately related to dialogue with an imagined receiver . |
| 20 | But in order to respond fully , our active participation as spectators is very obviously called into play — as well as called into question . |
| 21 | The experiments of Dr O'Shaughnessy and others during the cholera of 1831–2 show that the amount of water in the blood was very much diminished in proportion to the solid constituents , as also were the salts Well , the basis of my treatment of cholera is quite simply to try to restore the fluid and salts which have been lost from the blood , by injecting solutions of carbonate of soda or phosphate of soda into the blood vessels . |
| 22 | Food preferences are very much dictated by habit , and those who get into the habit of choosing the fibre-rich foods gradually come to prefer them . |
| 23 | Education is very much based on trial and error though schools which specialise in the education of the autistic child have developed common aims . |
| 24 | ‘ At that time , and to a large extent even now , Television was very much based in Theatre . |
| 25 | The decision as to what is best will very much depend on timing . |
| 26 | There are various types of easel , and choice should very much depend on practice . |
| 27 | There are various types of easel , and choice should very much depend on practice . |
| 28 | Now , as well as the fortifications , I think one wants to erm very much keep in mind that the citizens of St Aldate 's were constantly being asked for money . |
| 29 | The second or third lots of clients sent along by Pinkie , an insurance broker and his wife , who wanted somewhere to give occasional parties in summer , at high tide only , were very much taken with Dreadnought . |
| 30 | ‘ It is particularly pleasing that Councillor Thorne will be able to carry out this duty ’ said Jackie Cope , the Museum 's Curator , ‘ he is very much associated with tourism issues and the regeneration of Keighley as a whole . ’ |