Example sentences of "very [adv] [pron] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's making it very clear she does n't believe Anna 's good enough for that brother of hers . |
| 2 | but , she prefers for me not to stay on the phone for very long she does |
| 3 | lot more the the the job they have , it 's a a very long it runs from just off the coast of er Norway right down |
| 4 | Before very long he becomes the leader of one of the most powerful teenage gangs in Brooklyn . |
| 5 | It may not matter very much what claims the Association makes for itself but one would hope that co-operation and not confrontation is to be its approach , and the making of false claims can only antagonise the Law . |
| 6 | And if you do n't , then you can see very quickly what 's gone wrong , and probably where it 's gone wrong , as well . |
| 7 | That 's very very like what happens with the thyroid . |
| 8 | But then , Boaz who it , said he was honourable man , he replies , very positively he says may you be blessed by the Lord . |
| 9 | Very often one sees schedules which have never been taken beyond the question-asking stage and one wonders what terrible time and effort must be expended on forcing all sorts of answers into categories later on , especially when electronic means of analysis , such as computers , are to be used . |
| 10 | Very often there seems to be no logical reason why small bits of one parish should be isolated , surrounded by the land of another . |
| 11 | But it 's all done by a helper very often who does n't understand you . |
| 12 | so many so very often it happens but for me too I shall go just half an hour |
| 13 | Very often it helps pupils to make the imaginative leap that is required of a historian . |
| 14 | I have said a good deal more on Government Back Benches than I have on Opposition Back Benches and very often it has been what has been done on Government Back Benches that has saved even Labour Governments from some of their follies . |
| 15 | Because erm , sun goes round very often it starts in the winter . |
| 16 | Very often it demands considerable time and careful exploration to help the patient decide precisely what his problems are . |
| 17 | The injustice to the home-owner is sometimes made worse by the fact that very often he has n't the money to pay for the repairs and has to borrow from the bank in order to pay the bill . |
| 18 | Well he had a night off , it 's not very often he has a night off , so |
| 19 | ‘ You know very well what lists — marking down the young men for the wars . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Darling , you know very well he 's got to be back for his night round . ’ |
| 21 | Very simply it presents , through its visual image of the Crucifixion and its present-tense appeal to passers-by to think of the uniqueness of the love it manifests , a sense of the issues of the Passion as a continual process : The final two lines complete the physical image but metaphorically signify that reality at the heart of Christianity , that through the experience of suffering the strength of love is made known . |
| 22 | At the very least one owes it to one 's family to do this , as well as to oneself and even one 's current employer . |
| 23 | At the very least it prompts the response ‘ What elements of the media ? |
| 24 | It may go wider than this , but at the very least it shows that we must be cautious about blaming the draftsman . |
| 25 | At the very least it appears to me that the manner in which I have construed the relevant provisions in their application to the facts in this appeal is a possible construction and that any ambiguity there should be resolved in favour of the taxpayer . |
| 26 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 27 | At the very least it seems guests like to have the choice . |
| 28 | The weight of numbers is revealing ; at the very least it witnesses to the reality of tinnitus . |
| 29 | His theory is controversial , to put it mildly ; but at the very least he portrays the kind of different , ‘ alien ’ intelligence our ancestors may have had . ) |
| 30 | At the very least he sees himself as descended from Agricola , steward of England , and as Christ 's deputy , when he says in B137 : |