Example sentences of "very [adv] the [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was exhausted , no sleep last night , and very little the previous nights . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | These are marked by lusty singing and strong rhythms and reflect very much the extrovert nature of the worshippers . |
| 10 | She had very much the Cebotari voice , but a much stronger character . |
| 11 | It was a tag that surprised me very much the first time I heard it … but now I 've stopped worrying . |
| 12 | In England , by contrast , although there were some villages where having a widowed parent in the house ‘ was very much the ordinary , expected thing ’ at a certain stage in life , already by the late middle ages it was not the normal pattern . |
| 13 | Very much the unsung hero of Mercedes ' 190 range , the six-cylinder 2.6 has none of the cosmetic bravura that distinguishes the 2.5–16 from its lesser stablemates . |
| 14 | The tries , three in the first half , when the USA had the wind advantage , were well taken , leaving the USA to ponder how a game where they had parity in the scrums and very much the upper hand out of touch , winning the lines-out 16–5 , could have been lost by such a comprehensive margin . |
| 15 | Daniele might be running the team for 1976 , but Niki and Clay Regazzoni had very much the upper hand . |
| 16 | His Great Backpacking Adventure ( also OIP ) is a narrative of some of his backpacking trips , and this very much the practical manual on such efforts . |
| 17 | Tony had always been serious , always very much the elder brother , checking Terry and Stephen , protective towards the girls , but now he seemed more relaxed . |
| 18 | Meanwhile the silliness of Dynamite was offset by Charles Bickford 's excellence as the condemned-to-death miner , and Wallace Beery was very much the real thing in The Champ ; for the most part though it was the newcomers who received most praise . |
| 19 | A street photographer snapped Paul Guillaume and Modigliani walking along the Promenade des Anglais , Guillaume looking natty and brisk , with knife-edge creases in his trousers , Modigliani in shabby , baggy clothes , shoes unpolished , very much the poor relation . |
| 20 | One by one , polytechnics are becoming universities and the binary divide has disappeared , although the disparities in funding remain and the former polytechnics are very much the poor relations in terms of library acquisitions funding . |
| 21 | He was very much the prime reason for Palace 's success in climbing out of Division Four in 1960–61 and Johnny 's 30 League goals for us that season remain Palace 's post-war scoring record for a single season to this day . |
| 22 | For all his fopperies , Bernier was very much the educated European of the early Enlightenment : he knew his classics , was a firm believer in Reason , and had no patience with ‘ ridiculous errors and strange superstitions ’ . |
| 23 | The primary services — family doctors , dentists , pharmacists — are very much the front line of health care and in 1986 we published a Green Paper which was the first comprehensive review of the services for forty years . |
| 24 | Very much the Front Page look today , I thought , or was the hangover worse than usual ? |
| 25 | We had a very bad trip , needless to say , and we saw very little of Sam until he emerged from his cabin at Oban looking very much the worse for wear . |
| 26 | I asked Millet , noting how the young man was very much the worse for drink . |
| 27 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 28 | It was so very much the right place at the right time . |
| 29 | ‘ For me the important thing was winning the match , the money is very much the second thing . |
| 30 | The prescription of a conflicts rule , though more readily agreed than a substantive rule , is very much the second best solution . |