Example sentences of "very [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From these three major sources it can be seen that rape and sexual assault are very rarely the subject of investigative journalism outside of some judicial context . |
| 2 | It is very rarely the case in real life that we can predict in detail the form and content of the language which we will encounter , but , given all of the ethnographic information we have specified , the actual occurring utterance is much more likely ( hence , we assume , much more readily processed by the addressee ) than any of the following ‘ utterances ’ which did not occur : |
| 3 | Furthermore , Mr Farraday had made it clear that he planned to hold only very rarely the sort of large social occasions Darlington Hall had seen frequently in the past . |
| 4 | What , for instance , would Ken have in common with Andrew Ray , who was then just twenty-three years old ( Ken was now forty ) and who made known and very clear the attraction he felt for a pretty girl ? |
| 5 | Cambridge and Knapp make very clear the relationship of consumerism to community care : |
| 6 | Very slowly the boy cut himself another slice and began to eat it . |
| 7 | Very slowly the curtain opened . |
| 8 | Because the cells move very slowly the process is best seen when speeded up in a time-lapse film . |
| 9 | Paige found herself quite hungry , but that was probably because she 'd eaten very little the night before . |
| 10 | One of the signs of the eclipse of classics by English was the foundation in 1907 of the English Association which was to propound very effectively the view that the new discipline had become " our finest vehicle for a genuine humanistic education " and that " its importance in this respect was growing with the disappearance of Latin and Greek from the curricula of our schools and universities . " |
| 11 | We 've had very since the trouble , certainly over the past month since Christmas . |
| 12 | Before very long the view of Rhee 's helpful conduct was to undergo radical revision . |
| 13 | The public may find it hard to stomach for very long the fact that schools in one area should be much better or worse funded than those in neighbouring areas , or that age weightings should vary greatly from one area to another . |
| 14 | This is very obviously the approach of someone writing exclusively and specifically for the young . |
| 15 | The heat , redness , pain and swelling are the classical signs of inflammation and are very obviously the result of the body 's reaction to the infection and not the cause of the illness . |
| 16 | Very gingerly the boy began to cut a thin slice of the vast cake . |
| 17 | The only solution is to reduce very greatly the use of water , and every individual is involved . |
| 18 | Mr Sayers added : ‘ Very sensibly the public have been warned that he is extremely dangerous and should not be approached . ’ |
| 19 | I missed very much the man who was for fifteen years our first trombone ; he trained the group to the very highest level . |
| 20 | Whether he stays on beyond that point is open to conjecture , but for the moment Roxburgh is very much the man in charge of a Scottish team who produced one of their better performances at Aberdeen . |
| 21 | Western practices and ideas were modified to fit in with Japanese reality — though there were periods when ‘ Westernization ’ was very much the vogue . |
| 22 | This was very much the implication which was drawn from Darwin 's work by those anthropologists who published immediately after The Origin of Species , so that they enthusiastically talked of natural selection and the survival of the fittest in their outlines of human history . |
| 23 | Thus it is very close in time to the Tyrannicides ; and the face has very much the character of Harmodios or the Kritian boy . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's very much the mixture as before but we are always adding new courses and improving the ones we have got , ’ said manager . |
| 25 | All at once she looked and sounded uncertain and very much the sister Claudia had always loved . |
| 26 | ‘ People are disillusioned , not just with the Government , but with politics itself — that was very much the message he found on his travels round the country , ’ a colleague said . |
| 27 | The organisation is very much the vision of Colin Hall of Liverpool Music House who were co-organisers of the seminars along with the University 's Institute of Popular Music . |
| 28 | An on-going media information service is very much the backbone of any media relations programme . |
| 29 | Nannies were inevitable and , within their social set , also very much the norm ; but the choice of Barbara Barnes to look after William was an indication that it was going to be a relaxed regime : she had no formal training , never wore a uniform and liked children to call her by her Christian name . |
| 30 | On his ‘ Big Red Train Ride ’ in 1977 , Eric Newby found these class approaches to the catching of and waiting for the trains , which have been such a characteristic of colonial societies in India and Africa , still very much the norm in the communist countries . |