Example sentences of "it [verb] very [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
| 2 | It involves very large client groups ( elderly , physically disabled , and mentally ill people as well as people with learning disabilities ) ; constitutes one of the major tasks of the personal social services ; and it is an arena in which hopes and aspirations have consistently been disappointed ( Walker , 1982 ; Webb and Wistow , 1986 ; Martin , 1987 ) . |
| 3 | Endill found it funny but someone sitting next to him said it became very annoying year after year . |
| 4 | In practice it made very little difference whether an actor , writer or director accused of being tainted with Communism claimed the right to be silent or not . |
| 5 | It made very little impact . |
| 6 | It needs very little provocation to start Shelley off on such topics , or Albé either — he particularly enjoys vampire stories . |
| 7 | When the spaces between the scallops are left plain , it needs very little fabric fullness . |
| 8 | Mains gas is supplied to around 85% of British homes : it 's available ‘ on tap ’ ( there 's no need to store it ready for use ) ; it 's clean ; it 's easy to control ; and the equipment that uses it needs very little maintenance . |
| 9 | It has very low surface brightness , and is best seen with low powers as an oval blur . |
| 10 | This acts to surprise the liver into activity , for it has very little work to do when you are on a pure diet . |
| 11 | ‘ It has very sleek styling , ’ said Sue . |
| 12 | It has very fast reference and search facilities and it will allow you to open multiple windows for comparisons . |
| 13 | Yes , it wants very delicate handling , I suppose . |
| 14 | In any event , though teachers continued to give reading their attention throughout the PNP period , it received very little attention in the Authority 's INSET and support programmes . |
| 15 | Run on an open-access basis , it includes very basic literacy/numeracy skills , to 0-level standard . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the orientation of the palazzo means that it gets very little sun to set it off ; this together with the dark paint and stonework , means it looks rather sombre . |
| 17 | It 's presumably popular for its unusual appearance , but it requires very dim lighting and a peat or sand substrate in which it can burrow for food . |
| 18 | It takes very little effort to keep her clean and tidy . ’ |
| 19 | These three islands share a history that reads like a pirate novel and it takes very little research to find documented facts detailing pirate treasure and shipwrecks galore . |
| 20 | It takes very little time to do and makes an enormous difference to the finished garment . |
| 21 | This calculation may look cumbersome , but it takes very little time and provides record storage positions very effectively . |
| 22 | But even without the figures it takes very little imagination to see why this council must not put off any longer the construction and commissioning of the southern fire station . |
| 23 | If you 're so keen to see people who are as you , as you say articulate and and a go , in council houses it does seem an extraordinary argument to say that that those people are automatically not in need , it seems very bizarre argument . |
| 24 | It took very little ingenuity to transform an ordinary bone conductor type of National Health hearing-aid and to attach a metal ring to the receiver so that it could be worn like an ordinary ring . |
| 25 | In one respect ours falls particularly short of perfection : it gives very little idea of Nietzsche 's style . |
| 26 | Prices are also made a lot more volatile right simply because the world market becomes a residual market , instead of everybody buying and selling through the world market right , if virtually everybody becomes self sufficient , the world market becomes a bit of a misnomer right , there is n't such a thing as a world market in that in that particular case it it may just be a few very small countries trade on the world market , it becomes very small market and therefore prone to supply erm fluctuations in any one country and as we know , supply fluctuations on inelastic demand causes price volatility . |
| 27 | It had very little warmth but the chilly air was helping to clear my head . |
| 28 | In the six northern counties of England , it had very little effect on the landscape , except in the East Riding of Yorkshire . |
| 29 | It had very considerable influence in Germany up to the First World War , and also , in somewhat diluted form , in both Britain and America ( see chapter 6 ) . |
| 30 | This method is often faster and it enables very expensive apparatus to be put to better use . |