Example sentences of "very [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then very very importantly the last mnemonic ANNA cos that really is belt and braces , it 's tying the whole thing up so the guy knows exactly why you 're gon na come back . |
| 2 | Melanie smiled lazily , smoothing back her hair , the opulent curves of her body outlined by the satin dressing-gown which was very blatantly the only garment she had on . |
| 3 | Beyond this , character- ization rarely goes further than the creation of characters sufficient for the roles they play within the fabliau ; there is very rarely the slightest pretence at verisimilitude in the form of feigning that the characters have experiences beyond or after those of the narrative given . |
| 4 | More important , however , the large organisations with which we had contact had all sought to make very clear the precise status of their casual staff . |
| 5 | These are marked by lusty singing and strong rhythms and reflect very much the extrovert nature of the worshippers . |
| 6 | She had very much the Cebotari voice , but a much stronger character . |
| 7 | It was a tag that surprised me very much the first time I heard it … but now I 've stopped worrying . |
| 8 | Very much the unsung hero of Mercedes ' 190 range , the six-cylinder 2.6 has none of the cosmetic bravura that distinguishes the 2.5–16 from its lesser stablemates . |
| 9 | The tries , three in the first half , when the USA had the wind advantage , were well taken , leaving the USA to ponder how a game where they had parity in the scrums and very much the upper hand out of touch , winning the lines-out 16–5 , could have been lost by such a comprehensive margin . |
| 10 | Daniele might be running the team for 1976 , but Niki and Clay Regazzoni had very much the upper hand . |
| 11 | His Great Backpacking Adventure ( also OIP ) is a narrative of some of his backpacking trips , and this very much the practical manual on such efforts . |
| 12 | Tony had always been serious , always very much the elder brother , checking Terry and Stephen , protective towards the girls , but now he seemed more relaxed . |
| 13 | Meanwhile the silliness of Dynamite was offset by Charles Bickford 's excellence as the condemned-to-death miner , and Wallace Beery was very much the real thing in The Champ ; for the most part though it was the newcomers who received most praise . |
| 14 | A street photographer snapped Paul Guillaume and Modigliani walking along the Promenade des Anglais , Guillaume looking natty and brisk , with knife-edge creases in his trousers , Modigliani in shabby , baggy clothes , shoes unpolished , very much the poor relation . |
| 15 | He was very much the prime reason for Palace 's success in climbing out of Division Four in 1960–61 and Johnny 's 30 League goals for us that season remain Palace 's post-war scoring record for a single season to this day . |
| 16 | For all his fopperies , Bernier was very much the educated European of the early Enlightenment : he knew his classics , was a firm believer in Reason , and had no patience with ‘ ridiculous errors and strange superstitions ’ . |
| 17 | The primary services — family doctors , dentists , pharmacists — are very much the front line of health care and in 1986 we published a Green Paper which was the first comprehensive review of the services for forty years . |
| 18 | Very much the Front Page look today , I thought , or was the hangover worse than usual ? |
| 19 | It was so very much the right place at the right time . |
| 20 | ‘ Promotion and Distribution are very much the second class members of the marketing mix . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ For me the important thing was winning the match , the money is very much the second thing . |
| 22 | Said Heston , ‘ Richard is very much the professional Irishman . |
| 23 | He put it down on the tray then captured her hand , suddenly very much the professional consultant . |
| 24 | Laverne is very much the innocent party . ’ |
| 25 | Picasso was quite capable of working conventionally as well as experimentally , and Max Jacob himself was not keen on the drawing , which made him look ‘ very much the old peasant ’ . |
| 26 | This is very much the hybrid sound of Africa , and all the better for it . |
| 27 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 28 | All that energy for comparatively few sales , but she will get them for the paperback as she is very much the rising star of Black American fiction . |
| 29 | Multi-faceted influences have also clearly been poured into the Glebov melting pot , although he appears to have assimilated these with rather greater surety than Smolsky , who is very much the stylistic chameleon in comparison . |
| 30 | She says : ‘ She was very shy , blushed easily and was very much the younger sister . |