Example sentences of "very [adv] as [art] " in BNC.

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1 Expenditure costs rise very steeply as the ambient concentration approaches zero .
2 Below the lower level the number of pixels seen falls off very rapidly as the exposure is further reduced and , provided that the light intensity is not too high , a complete blackout occurs at some non-zero exposure , which will be called the blackout point .
3 If the board is left unattended in the water it can drift away very quickly as the wind and waves catch it , whereas the rig only drifts very slowly .
4 Watching herself very carefully as the shaping increased at the neck , she realised how easy it was to stop just short by an inch or so and not clear the selector .
5 The letter O , for instance , does not occur very often as the final letter in a four letter word , but is common as the second letter .
6 As historians are very much writing as the product of their times , Coleridge as the poet wrote poetry very immediately as the result of his state at that particular time .
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