Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially Gordievsky was treated as a very important person and briefed Mrs Thatcher before her first meeting with Gorbachev.He was also flown to Washington to see Reagan before his meeting with the Russian leader in Geneva . |
| 2 | As the wreckage was situated in a very remote location , despite their injuries all four occupants undertook a two-hour journey down the hillside to seek assistance . |
| 3 | Clearly in this case , where both parties were , by their own admission , drunk and unable to remember fully the events that took place , the commanding officer was placed in a very difficult position . |
| 4 | It must be said , however , that despite the beautiful detail of Piaget 's behavioural descriptions , his picture of the mental reorganizations underlying behavioural change was painted with a very broad brush ( by present-day standards ) ; and indeed the assimilation-accommodation model is little more than a description of what has to be explained , awaiting , what we now call , a ‘ computational model ’ . |
| 5 | he was regarded as a very very smart man |
| 6 | Instead I kept silent , but inside I was singing in a very loud voice . |
| 7 | The room was carpeted in a very thick fawn carpet with a wave-like configuration in its pile . |
| 8 | If I stayed on at Bletchley — which I was reluctant to leave — I should scarcely ever see Leslie before the invasion of France , which we all knew was expected within a very few months . |
| 9 | I was met by a very respectful group of Gordon Highlanders when I visted Aberdeen recently , when I said that I would have been on the line as well had I been in their position . |
| 10 | He 's a very well spoken , he 's er a well educated man , speaks fluent French , er was living in a very large house , very much involved in the er racing fraternity er car racing , motor racing fraternity , was regularly seen at Brans Hatch , er mixed with er a lot of well known personalities in that field , er generally speaking his life style er was very good indeed . |
| 11 | We paid over $50m for it , and that , for a small British company in those days going into a market where British companies had n't been notably successful , was seen as a very big commitment . |
| 12 | This was seen as a very significant move , given India 's longstanding insistence that Kashmir was an exclusively bilateral issue , but subsequent statements by the Ministry of External Affairs emphasised that purpose of the meeting was purely to give information and that India was not asking for international mediation . |
| 13 | Some say I play down the ‘ grinding toil ’ that is an unavoidable part of it all , so I will not deny that this year it was done by a very small corps of loyal people , several from without the congregation . |
| 14 | And as I say , if it was done in a very civilized way by people who 'd perhaps learnt to smile or somehow turn this , what must be a minor offence , into a minor occasion , erm I think it , it might actually ease relationships . |
| 15 | Vincent was sold into private ownership and was reborn as a very luxurious yacht a few years later , often to be seen and remarked on by cutter crews in yachting circles . |
| 16 | Paul Craddock of the British Museum Research Laboratory has pointed out that the silver in metals used at Igbo Ukwu would almost certainly have been recovered by European and Arab smiths of the period , while the unusually low iron content suggests the copper was made by a very primitive technology . |
| 17 | The property was built to a very high standard in 1988 and has not been inhabited . |
| 18 | Strong opposition to such Assemblies was silenced by a very modern excuse — they were doing it for Charity . |
| 19 | Maggie was shown into a very expensive flat that overlooked the river and she had one of her rare glimpses of the owner as he stood with his back to a roaring fire and regarded her through eyes that were just as sharp as they had ever been in his youth . |
| 20 | Before the coming of mains water to rural areas , the water for Rise Hall and stable yard was supplied from a very deep well under a sawmill floor , a full quarter of a mile away . |
| 21 | This analysis was reiterated in a very similar form in the 1970s by Berlinguer and Carillo , then the leaders of the Italian and Spanish Communist parties , and in a form which closely resembles the views of contemporary left-wing social democrats ( Hodgson , 1977 ) . |
| 22 | Similarly , the term " freemen " , also much used , was used in a very restricted way as when Lord Hardwicke declared in 1757 , " Our men of property are our only freemen … " |
| 23 | She was always in such a hurry , jumping out of bed and straight into her workaday clothes , that she had failed to take notice of the fact that she was growing into a very shapely young woman . |
| 24 | Moreover , director Paul Haines said that one of the London-based group 's tactics for boosting profits was to look for bargains among the competition — the stake in Total was bought at a very low price , he says — then buy a small stake , and cash it in . |
| 25 | Then much later it was bought by a very rich Arab Christian family called Damiani and they turned this building ’ — the man paused in humorous reflection for a moment — ‘ into a soap factory . |
| 26 | But Elvis was going through a very fat period , and I thought , ‘ Well , I 'll wait until he 's lost some weight , ’ because my childhood image was of a real animal of a person . |
| 27 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 28 | ‘ Unlike my father , who had to work for his money , my mother was born into a very wealthy family . |
| 29 | Those attending were given the opportunity to carry out the mock validation of a course which was defended by a very experienced course team . |
| 30 | The sanguine view of the classical writers that deviations from the normal state of full employment could be regarded as temporary ‘ lapses from full employment ’ ( Pigou 's phrase ) was based upon a very simple disequilibrium adjustment mechanism derived from Marshallian partial equilibrium analysis . |