Example sentences of "very [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The criteria mentioned above have often been employed , as was noted at the beginning of this chapter , in the construction of very broad evolutionary schemes , but these have been increasingly criticized — in Marxist thought as elsewhere — for their excessively abstract depiction of the ‘ stages of development ’ which seem to fit very loosely the actual changes in political systems in different regions of the world and in determinate historical periods . |
| 2 | And then very very importantly the last mnemonic ANNA cos that really is belt and braces , it 's tying the whole thing up so the guy knows exactly why you 're gon na come back . |
| 3 | Melanie smiled lazily , smoothing back her hair , the opulent curves of her body outlined by the satin dressing-gown which was very blatantly the only garment she had on . |
| 4 | Very rarely a dead animal or plant fossilizes , and it is then sometimes possible to see progressive stages in an animal arms race a little more directly . |
| 5 | Beyond this , character- ization rarely goes further than the creation of characters sufficient for the roles they play within the fabliau ; there is very rarely the slightest pretence at verisimilitude in the form of feigning that the characters have experiences beyond or after those of the narrative given . |
| 6 | Briefly , this is because automatisation depends upon practice at performances which do not vary , whereas the underlying meanings of sentences are very rarely the same . |
| 7 | More important , however , the large organisations with which we had contact had all sought to make very clear the precise status of their casual staff . |
| 8 | I was exhausted , no sleep last night , and very little the previous nights . |
| 9 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 10 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 11 | A pregnant woman is very obviously a different shape from her non-pregnant sister , and the beauty of a young girl has quite another quality from that of a mature woman . |
| 12 | Very gently the two women drew the light quilt away , sliding it from under the arm of the sleeper , drawing it down at both sides , peeling it off and over the end of the bed . |
| 13 | And it was soon made clear to me that their shopping , far from being a simple necessity , was very much a serious business . |
| 14 | They are very much a two-career couple and , although the work overlaps from time to time , they have two very distinct careers , which take them in different directions . |
| 15 | The war thus became very much a joint concern , with the nobility playing as important a part as the king in recruiting and commanding armies and conducting campaigns . |
| 16 | Damien Falkowski and the Britannia Chamber Orchestra make their recording début in what has become very much a standard programme of English music from strings . |
| 17 | The process of learning words , learning their grammatical categories and acquiring them in correct combinations is very much a two-way affair . |
| 18 | This is very much a two-edged sword , since the only way that the beginner can prevent the model tipping over is to close the throttle , yet any sudden closing of the throttle is to be avoided , for the reasons already given . |
| 19 | But I should stress that this is still very much a personal interpretation by somebody only marginally involved in the market . |
| 20 | In truth , it is very much a love-hate relationship she has with the circuit . |
| 21 | A norm is very much a general term , it is an expected standard of behaviour shared by members of a social group . |
| 22 | The book is very much a general introduction , aimed at providing nurses of all specialties with the essential practical background information required to negotiate a successful return to practice . |
| 23 | ‘ This man of yours is very much a one-woman man . ’ |
| 24 | The links she is forming — trade with China and Korea , New Zealand and Australia — are deliberately aimed at ensuring that Chile in particular , and South America in general , is becoming very much a legitimate partner in the Pacific of the future , no matter that the local cultures and traditions , -combined with the sheer distance from the Pacific 's economic heartland , have always hitherto militated against the continent 's inclusion . |
| 25 | One controversial conclusion is that ‘ corporate community charitable involvement remains very much a peripheral activity for most companies , even for those with fairly sophisticated programmes . ’ |
| 26 | That was still the kind of work that I wanted to do , and if I thought very much a comprehensive schools it was in a spirit of mild disquiet . |
| 27 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher , with leadership skills for when he — and it is still very much a male preserve — heads a team . |
| 28 | It is sometimes argued that studies of working-class leisure have concentrated on male activities simply because leisure , a fairly new notion in any case , was very much a male affair in this period . |
| 29 | For Codron it was very much a turning point . |
| 30 | The danger of allowing opting out would be that the NHS would finish up as a rump and would provide very much a second class service . |