Example sentences of "very [adv] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So er , kind words to us , thank you very much , but there are bodies which are working very effectively to spread the net , er , my view , by the way , is of course erm , I 'm a great believer in , er pressures being exercised by every mechanism . |
| 2 | Nick said , but very gently to take the sting out of the words , " You 're not his mother . " |
| 3 | Indeed , once a psychic has become established it seems that nothing — not the most detailed confession , not the most damning exposure — can dent the confidence of believers-And , not content with continuing to believe the evidently fraudulent , they do their very best to draw the exposers into the net . |
| 4 | Overwhelmed by her publicity , Amaranth finished her breakfast , and set out for the Grand and Harvey , doing her very best to subdue a worm of doubt . |
| 5 | Great practical achievements jostle with the expected financial and administrative problems but throughout it is a story of people doing their very best to improve the health and welfare of animals of all shapes and sizes and in all circumstances . |
| 6 | As a result one male , the dominant of the two , does his very best to keep the subordinate from mating , while the female does her best to get both males to mate with her . |
| 7 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |
| 8 | He said , ‘ My son , my body is returning to my mother earth , and my spirit is going very soon to see the Great Spirit … |
| 9 | In truth , as I mean to tell Her Grace , he means very soon to put an end to your captivity . ’ |
| 10 | In truth , as I mean to tell Her Grace , he means very soon to put an end to your captivity . |
| 11 | We will certainly need very soon to reconsider the levels of subscriptions paid by the employed Bar in comparison with those paid by those in private practice . |
| 12 | We know what happened : Enya was very quickly to attract the attention of David Puttman and had two successful soundtrack recordings for the BBC , ‘ The Frog Prince ’ and ‘ The Celts ’ . |
| 13 | Heat the thread of the bulb very carefully to melt the glue , remove thread slowing drawing out the filament , do not break the electrical or filament will , just wo n't work pour the liquid into the bulb and slowly lower the filament back dipped in some . |
| 14 | The Foreign Office advised him very strongly to take no part in the transaction , but this was in fact an encouragement . |
| 15 | Ballymena and Antrim had more good wins through John McAdorey in the 100m and Eddie King who finished very strongly to take the 800 in one minute 52.65 . |
| 16 | The Kiwi coach has done very well to help the game reach communist China ( see July issue of RW&P , pages 56 and 57 ) where there are hopes that rugby might be introduced to the Chinese armed forces . |
| 17 | On the whole , though it was a partly negative performance on Leeds part , I think we did very well to get a draw . |
| 18 | " You 've done very well to get the thing cleared up so quickly , " I said . |
| 19 | It would suit them very well to have the tenancy of the house for at least another year . |
| 20 | Until very recently , the SAAF has had the praiseworthy policy of flying as many of its historic airframes as possible , and the Oxford 's restoration has been undertaken with this in mind , or at the very least to allow the aircraft to ground-run . |
| 21 | Roll out the coloured icing to a 20cm ( 8inch ) square , very thinly to give a marbled effect . |
| 22 | we shall need to interrupt just very briefly to move a couple of things out . |
| 23 | you see Lord is here very splendidly to argue the case and at the moment I 'd like you to address the question , I 'll ask it again , the question is , I think it 's a simple one , it follows from your answer about why the brochures had to be updated , but when there was a time when they were not updated before nineteen eighty nine , there was a risk was n't there that with the brochures printing service charges towards the end of the sales period someone might have been mislead by the brochure ? that 's right is n't it ? |
| 24 | Since you will be constantly referring to your picture for colour reference I would recommend keeping it under glass and just taping the sides very firmly to stop the flowers being damaged . |
| 25 | Versailles displayed an economic shortsightedness ; writing in 1921 R. H. Brand recognised that in the next 5 years reparations would not " be large enough very seriously to alleviate the great financial problems which … the nations of Western Europe must have solved " . " |
| 26 | Many sections in WOW ! stimulate students to think about other countries , different cultures , the global environment : in this sense , it aims very definitely to provide a ‘ window on the world ’ . |
| 27 | And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water . |