Example sentences of "of [adj] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it was ‘ in view of that very narrow definition of the link which a member state may require when authorising a vessel to fish against its quotas ’ ( see p. 225 , para. 44 ) that the court considered that there was no need to answer the second part of question 1(d) in Ex parte Jaderow Ltd. and hence held that certain economic , financial and fiscal evidence was irrelevant in order to establish the existence of a real economic link between the vessel and the member state in question , such as , for example |
| 2 | By his continual switching from one level of style to another , and his equally continual use of characters as ‘ internal reflectors ’ of embarrassment or suspicion , Tolkien showed at least that he was aware of that very predictable mistake , and ready to do what he could to help his readers round it . |
| 3 | I now know that the lady concerned was the then Mrs Randolph Churchill , later Mrs Averell Harriman and now the widow of that very great man . |
| 4 | And , after seeing the back of that very fetching little wisp you were wearing , I thought it would be a shame to miss the front . |
| 5 | This unique film captures the excitment of that very first meeting at the Abbey Stadium in Blunsdon . |
| 6 | It is pleasant to record that the joy which accompanies any triggering of that very special memory for the spectating classes is reflected in McGeechan 's own private storehouse of matchless moments . |
| 7 | As he 's had to endure several million playbacks of that very single over the course of the weekend , one can only say , ‘ poor bastard ’ . |
| 8 | consolidated itself as sovereign subject by defining its colonies as ‘ Others ’ , even as it constituted them , for purposes of administration and the expansion of markets , into programmed near-images of that very sovereign self . |
| 9 | In St Peter 's school at Vauxhall which is described later , we see the work of another very talented church architect , John Loughborough Pearson ( 1817–97 ) . |
| 10 | In the case of another very early practitioner , Psiax , who also worked with Andokides but whose stylistic links are with Lydos and Amasis rather than Exekias , the highly distinctive hand is unmistakable in both techniques . |
| 11 | I had , as it happens , had experience just before Westland of another very well-known public company — John Brown — which had encountered difficulties . |
| 12 | Following the solo epics reported here over recent months by Catherine Destivelle on the Petit Dru and Jean-Pierre Lafaille on Mont Blanc , there 's news of another very difficult new route climbed solo in the French Alps . |
| 13 | Take the case of another very senior figure . |
| 14 | I was talking , yesterday as it happened , to the chairman of another very large children 's charity and I asked him how his , the spend , the annual spend of that charity was distributed between the work of the charity , the purpose of the charity and the support functions and he said about eighty twenty . |
| 15 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 16 | If the person holding the string swings his hand with movements partly rhythmical and partly arbitrary , the illustration will not outrun the difficulties of some very real and practical problems of value . |
| 17 | It takes the form of some very general theoretical hypotheses that form the basis from which the programme is to develop . |
| 18 | A further component of paradigms consists of some very general , metaphysical principles that guide work within a paradigm . |
| 19 | At the time , you were the butt of some very unkind jokes ? |
| 20 | Or the lovely , curved local milk jugs made of some very dark wood . |
| 21 | When several banshee keen together , it means the death of some very great or holy person is imminent . |
| 22 | Alan Bleakley tells of some very fruitful rituals including working with archetypal images which have taken place at various stone circles in Cornwall where individuals were considerably helped by being able to tune in to the spirit of the place . |
| 23 | Laura gave me a box of some very nice soap . |
| 24 | But word reaches Shoreditch from Exeter of some very odd goings on . |
| 25 | Although she was following in the footsteps of some very good leaders Lord Thurso felt she " never languished in the shade of her predecessors , but brought her own style of freshness and enthusiasm , backed by a deep and secure christian faith " . |
| 26 | Pain , boredom and badgering of some very kind nurses bring me to a steam-age typewriter in the hospital 's occupational therapy department . |
| 27 | They have been members of some very dodgy Latvian old-pais club but nothing else is known . |
| 28 | Fifteen years later the town of Carlisle is as much of an enigma as it was then , despite the expenditure of some very large sums of money and several large excavations . |
| 29 | Graciously the principal did apologise for the ferocity of his attack but that encounter prompted me to produce this leaflet in defence of the Word of God and the integrity of some very important person who are in effect made out to be liars if the theory of evolution is true . |
| 30 | One officer on the case said : ‘ Thomas stole the bonds on behalf of some very heavy criminals . |