Example sentences of "very [det] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , Conservative views had changed very little since the 1950s . |
| 2 | G. Sankoff and Vincent ( 1980 ) in a smaller historical investigation come to a parallel conclusion that stylistically stratified patterns of variable deletion of the negative particle ne in French have changed very little since the sixteenth century , when deletion was associated with informal styles . |
| 3 | Breeding success varied very little during the period , when a total of 22 broods was noted , averaging rather more than two young per brood . |
| 4 | The Greeks did very little during the winter because of bad weather but each spring they were back on the water , checking that everything was nautika or boatworthy . |
| 5 | Despite this outpouring of research findings and recommendations , however , it appears that the immediate environment for the elderly changed very little during the period ( Rowntree 1947 ; Utting 1958 ; Townsend 1962 ; Philips Committee — HMSO 1954 ) . |
| 6 | The first clear trend is that the dispersion of gross earnings among male manual workers has changed very little during the last hundred years . |
| 7 | A Disaffection is a problematical book — because of this closeness : we learn very little about how Doyle is seen by companions , very little about the standpoint of those who surround him , those with whom he has his tender and abrasive dealings , with whom he airs his invectives and bitter ironies , with whom he conducts his antagonisms and ingratiations . |
| 8 | ‘ The people who do the selecting know very little about the sport . |
| 9 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 10 | Gaily knew very little about the ways of church services , and so he sat halfway towards the back , looking at the coffin and the windows full of pale saints carrying lilies and the dust motes in the groin of the roof . |
| 11 | Proof of republican involvement in NICRA prior to 5 October 1968 actually says very little about the civil rights movement . |
| 12 | However , knowing the activity tells us very little about the possible biological damage caused . |
| 13 | I was only there a few weeks and was so bored and anxious to be gone that I remember very little about the place . |
| 14 | The switchgear layout , however , is more sci-fi than ergonomic and very little about the operation of the driving environment seems intuitive . |
| 15 | Many people know very little about the benefits that can be claimed by the elderly and those who are looking after them , or the free services to which they are entitled , so they often fail to claim something that is their right . |
| 16 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
| 17 | We filled a great many notebooks with testing data but learnt very little about the strength of materials . |
| 18 | Being able to machine knit gives no indication of the personality of the worker , in the same way that being able to drive a car shows very little about the actual driver . |
| 19 | But we know very little about the animals which bore these scales and although a few articulated remains have been known for several years , they show very little anatomical detail and it is not easy to identify immediate relatives . |
| 20 | However , they have said very little about the membership or the nature of political argument within the Britons or the IFL , and almost nothing on the most important of the extreme anti-semitic organizations , the NL , and its guiding spirit , Archibald H. Maule Ramsay MP . |
| 21 | The records of the parliament say very little about the nobility , yet it is probable that without their support the commons would have achieved few if any of their more substantial demands . |
| 22 | If I know very little about the firm or the people in it , then , to reduce my uncertainty , I will invent my own snapshots of what to expect . |
| 23 | As Ian Oswald once remarked , we know very little about the function of everyday , waking consciousness , so perhaps it is over-optimistic to believe that we should achieve a complete understanding of sleeping consciousness merely because we have reliable physiological indices of when dreams are likely to occur . |
| 24 | In the production or processing of discourse with a low degree of reciprocity ( for example , a manual , a road sign , a circular letter ) we can say very little about the individual identity of the person or persons in communication with us ; their name , gender , age , personality , appearance , and so on . |
| 25 | Both national survey data and smaller in-depth studies now enable us to document at least some of the financial effects of care-giving on women , although we still know very little about the consequences for women who begin or continue to give care in their own old age , or about the experiences of Black women carers . |
| 26 | Last year the workshop session that followed Mr Barker 's presentation revealed that most publishers appeared to know very little about the financial realities of retailing . |
| 27 | First , the approach says very little about the precise actors involved in the growth of government . |
| 28 | All in all , it 's an interesting read until the Beatles split around p200 , but it 's so short on new information that you 'll have to know very little about the band to avoid a feeling of déja vu . |
| 29 | The difficulty here is that central planning may know very little about the actual way of working of the different departments , so a theoretically superior plan may be impracticable . |
| 30 | We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years . |