Example sentences of "to have [verb] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much relevant research has gone on since then , but it seems to have made very little impact upon the public debate about the ageing of British society . |
| 2 | The company 's head of production , Walter Mycroft , had been a founding member of the Film Society , but he does n't seem to have had very much interest in nurturing talent . |
| 3 | Wartime service spanned almost the entire Pacific conflict , making it one of the most historically significant of the few remaining Australian Dakotas , the other preserved examples appearing to have had very pedestrian careers in comparison while ‘ SBO was used exclusively for military frontline transport operations , making it a veteran par excellence . |
| 4 | And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks . |
| 5 | True , god seemed to have chosen very diverse tasks and species , which bore little relation to experimental tasks that an earlier generation of psychologists would have recognized as relevant . |
| 6 | Hygienist theories were in any case too stress-provoking to the mother to have lasted very many years ; the only group who did seem to derive satisfaction from them were some who , standing in an advisory role to the parents , found in such an authoritarian regime a source of power . |