Example sentences of "be [prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mum and dad had been through a very bad divorce , so I suppose she was frightened of being too strict and pushing me away , in case I turned against her . |
| 2 | Everyone in the Administration Centre has been through a very steep learning curve . |
| 3 | The great , I mean , you 've a valid point and I think it 's due to the recession in America , I think we were disappointed were we not Bruce , that the results of our trip to er , New York State , and this has nothing to do with the enthusiasm of the business people we met there , everything to do , in my view , with the fact that the recession , and America 's been through a very tough recession , they just do n't look to expand elsewhere , but the reaction we had in , in er , in America was very , very powerful of , of a wish to want to do something when things look better . |
| 4 | Ian Gilmour , deputy social work director , said : ‘ He has been through a very bewildering experience in the past 36 hours , and he is not aware of all that has happened , including the tragedy of his mother 's death . ’ |
| 5 | They have obviously been through a very bad time over the last few days and it is n't going to get any better over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 6 | The most exciting discovery this year has been of a very fine Umbrian crucifix of around 1250 hitherto completely concealed by mediocre seventeenth-century painting optimistically attributed to Titian in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | In the Trocadero large quantities of objects were displayed in a crowded , haphazard fashion , and , while Picasso was undoubtedly overwhelmed by what he saw and experienced , the impression he carried away with him must have been of a very general , metaphysical kind . |
| 8 | If you compare the transport of PCBs with that of a 5,000-gallon tanker of petrol , or liquid petroleum gas — or any of the hazardous chemicals which are routinely trundling about our roads — PCBs are of a very low order of toxicity or risk . |
| 9 | This will be so particularly in the case of goods which are of a very low price , so that there is little income barrier to their purchase . |
| 10 | Nobody has been able to identify the houses , partly because they are of a very common design that appears all over London . |
| 11 | Add to this the fact that the rooms are of a very good standard , all with private facilities and most with balconies , the staff are very friendly and helpful and the atmosphere is lively and welcoming and you can see just why it 's our most popular hotel on the island ! |
| 12 | In summary , the Alexis apartments are of a very high standard , and we think you 'll find them an excellent choice for summer ‘ 90 . |
| 13 | Non-specific requests are of a very general kind , such as ‘ What ? ’ and ‘ Pardon ? ’ |
| 14 | Most " events " are of a very short duration — in the case of a banquet a matter of a few hours — but some can last longer — in the case of certain sporting events , conferences or exhibitions several days , or even one or two weeks . |
| 15 | The theatre is quite spectacular , with the seating arrangement and the plays performed there are of a very high standard . |
| 16 | Floor area totals a little under 50,000 sq ft and the specification and interior finishes are of a very high quality befitting use as a prestigious headquarters . |
| 17 | It is inconceivable , however , that these pavements which have multiple , rotated configurations of squares are of a very different date from those with single , rotated arrangements . |
| 18 | And it , it means that images can be transferred very rapidly , and the images that are transferred are of a very high quality . |
| 19 | I mean if , if your cut-off point is six or eight hundred say six or eight hundred yo you 're gon na , you know , you 're into a very large section of the population , if you will come to four hundred and fifty you are into a much , much smaller proportion . |
| 20 | ‘ I realise you 're in a very difficult position . |
| 21 | You 're only free because the King knows we 're in a very dangerous situation . ’ |
| 22 | I mean , er FIMBRA can do its regulatory bit , the same as the police can regulate or the , or the government can regulate , but only within certain er parameters , and if somebody really wants to cheat , then they will cheat anyway and er we 've go we 're in a very sophisticated position where the directors of B C C I were able to move money from one continent to another and it meant er it looked as if you 'd actually got money in three separate areas , but in fact there was only one lot and it was being moved rapidly . |
| 23 | they 're in a very good position . |
| 24 | " Nenna , I know all your intonations as well as I know my own , and I can tell that you 're in a very bad state . |
| 25 | If you 're in a very distressed state you ca n't take . |
| 26 | The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest . |
| 27 | If you could tell your clients that they 're on a very sticky wicket here and that I wo n't be the only woman journalist who 's utterly repulsed , you 'll be doing them a service ! |
| 28 | have given me a a bit of grief because the they 're on a very similar price level now to us . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're at a very early stage in all this , Minister , but can you think of anyone who would have wanted to harm Miss Morgan ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We 're at a very early stage of exploring this avenue , ’ said a spokesperson . |