Example sentences of "very [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The consultation er , that the document was sent out very , very widely to District Councils , to voluntary organizations , and throughout the county , the consultation process was extended until the end of December , er , replies are now in , and I believe there 's , there 's around a dozen of them .
2 Clearly an attempt has been made to select key groups , but they are not used very effectively to date major sequences and odd conclusions were drawn , which were to have far reaching effects .
3 Calcium oxide heated in the blast furnace turns very rapidly to calcium oxide plus carbon dioxide .
4 The initial shockwaves that devastated the Orkney island community of South Ronaldsay following the removal of the nine children from these four families , turned very quickly to disbelief and then to anger .
5 Secondly , the biceps respond very quickly to training and are relatively easy to develop compared to the triceps .
6 The effectiveness of the design process may , however , be dominated by the necessity to respond very quickly to market pressures .
7 He was for ‘ a delicious diligent indolence ’ , for a passiveness allowing the intellectual powers to come very gradually to ripeness .
8 She was very near to crying .
9 ‘ And we must be very near to Planet Zog by now .
10 I 've listened very carefully to Councillor and I have n't learnt a thing about the answer to various questions which were raised at E I D and and I ask it again , why do you really reject the Scheme ?
11 Such established techniques included the analysis of varves in lake deposits indicating an annual or seasonal rhythm , used since the pioneer work of de Geer in Sweden in 1912 ; analysis of tree rings when dendrochronology has been linked very convincingly to climate ; relative dating of landforms ; and palynology and other types of micro-fossil analysis including non-marine mollusca .
12 In addition , NCp7 was not found to bind very efficiently to DNA ends and the ability of IN to function in the presence of NCp7 at ratios of NCp7:DNA similar to those expected in vivo indicates that NCp7 does not bind to the terminal six residues ( 36 ) .
13 Flies very fast to water , mainly in early morning ; will drink quite brackish water .
14 ‘ He has responded very well to chemotherapy so the question of radiotherapy has not risen again .
15 This city is not a place of much trade , nor is it very populous ; but they are lately fallen into a very particular way of managing the corn trade here , which it is said turns very well to account .
16 Well only , er thank you Mr Chairman , just very briefly to second the , the objections to the word director .
17 Cp6 bound more strongly to HLA-B51 than to HLA-B53 but the allelic variants of this peptide with single amino-acid substitutions at position 4 , cp6.1 and cp6.2 , bound more strongly to HLA-B53 and very poorly to HLA-B51 ( data not shown ) .
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