Example sentences of "very much [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My contention is that the unity of Gandhi 's thought and the interrelatedness of the various aspects of his teaching spring from firmly-held metaphysical beliefs and that the nature of these beliefs become very much apparent when he expounds what he means by Truth . |
| 2 | Daylight was just around the corner however , but by the time daylight did arrive , although she and her pride were very much certain that she 'd see Vendelin Gajdusek in hell before she ever spoke to him again , certain other practicalities had entered her head . |
| 3 | There were 36 volumes edited by W. T. Stead which were very much used and included such diverse titles as " Twice one are Two , " " Aesop 's Fables , " " Hymns with Pictures , " " The First Birdie Book " and " Nursery Rhymes . " |
| 4 | Stu , I mean I live in Glasgow , the chances of me leaving Glasgow are pro , pre pretty slim but yeah , I certainly do n't want to stay in Scotland because of any loyalty , that I do n't think it 's given me very much other than a lot of experience , a lot of struggle , a lot of opportunities to stand alongside working class people and fight against , you know , the injustices . |
| 5 | Conversely , in the United States , where collective bargaining takes place mainly at plant level , union government is also very much decentralised and the branches ( Yocals ' ) have considerable independence . |
| 6 | In its insistence on the Message and on street-cred , the new soul is very much cramped and shadowed by the dowdy spirit of new wave , with its emphasis on lyrical ‘ relevance ’ . |
| 7 | Even though the same might be argued for painting , the technical obstacles to be overcome for painting are very much less than for sculpture . |
| 8 | This density is very much less than in similar areas in continental Europe ; for example , in Basilicata , the most sparsely populated region of southern Italy , the figure is 61 per km 2 . |
| 9 | Those who have viewed the Lombardy Plain from a distance will know that even on clear days Milan has its own atmosphere , the way that other cities do , although , in fairness , it is very much less than many others , despite its low-lying position . |
| 10 | Second , the actual cost , both in time and money , can be very much less than might at first be anticipated . |
| 11 | The 1.9:1 difference in the amount of perceived depth for the two simulated viewing distances when both vertical and horizontal perspective cues were present is very much less than would be required for complete depth constancy . |
| 12 | Those worth £5 — £19 were roped in for the second loan , in 1523 , so paying a total of 15 per cent , not so very much less than what was expected of the £20 men , and of course a proportionately heavier burden . |
| 13 | Altogether , nearly half the gentry owned goods worth very much less than their net rentals . |
| 14 | Second , within each age group women raise and front the vowel very much less than men ; finally all speakers use raised and fronted variants very much more in spontaneous speech than in the relatively formal style of interaction appropriate to an interview . |
| 15 | The party affiliation of the member is still the best single indicator of how he or she is likely to vote on a given bill , but party unity is very much less than in the British House of Commons . |
| 16 | When the space–time curvature is small , a linear approximation can be made to the metric where is the Minkowski metric and all the components are very much less than unity . |
| 17 | Solutions of Einstein 's equation will be sought for sources that are nearly Newtonian , which means firstly that within the source the curvature and strain are small and secondly that the velocity v of the material within the source is very much less than c . |
| 18 | ‘ Allowing for inflation , it 's very much less than I paid for it . ’ |
| 19 | Although the cost of living was very much less than it is now , schoolteachers ' salaries were modest . |
| 20 | Consequently ΔS M per mole of lattice sites ( or equivalent volume ) will be very much less than and the contribution of the combinatorial entropy to the mixing process in a polymer solution is not as large as that for solutions of small molecules when calculated in terms of volume fractions and expressed as per mole of sites . |
| 21 | As my own research shows , local purchases in the export-oriented zones in Egypt , Mexico and China are very much less than in Ireland , perhaps in the region of 1 or 2 per cent ( Sklair , 1988c , 1989 , pp.197–202 , forthcoming ) . |
| 22 | As the increase in synthesis in rectal mucosa from patients with inflammatory bowel disease was very much less than this , the increase in whole body protein turnover in such patients is not solely because of an increase in colonic protein synthesis . |
| 23 | On the basis of these measurements , ozone losses in the Arctic winter appear to be " not very much less than in the Antarctic spring " says Alan Plumb of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , " but the effects are less dramatic because polar ozone is being resupplied about as fast as it is being destroyed . " |
| 24 | The knumdrum where the people have gone has now been answered because the amount of domiciliary care needed to keep them out of residential places to meet their needs and wishes turns out to be very much less than we expected , on average less than seven hours a week . |
| 25 | But it was , in real terms , very much less if one allows for rising prices . |
| 26 | There are high concentrations in the top fifteen inches , but when we get below the next layer , the concentrations become very much less and the ratio of the two concentrations does n't change very much . |
| 27 | The works were very much dilapidated and in need of capital injection . |
| 28 | In connection with this it should also be remembered that all popular places , all sites actually used by the people , tend to retain the best routine of antiquity very much more than any localities or machines used by any privileged class . |
| 29 | It has already been stressed that the NACAB information system is very much more than a reference work . |
| 30 | He was greeted , berated and kept many hours , drinking very much more than he wanted . |