Example sentences of "very [adj] and [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Scherzo , the playing is very concentrated and incredibly exciting . |
| 2 | We have seen how , from the workers ' point of view , rationalised labour and practices can mean a very constraining and potentially unstable working environment . |
| 3 | Someone may be very unintelligent and yet have a good sense of hope or trust or love whereas someone else who is highly intelligent may yet have a relatively poor facility in these senses . |
| 4 | ‘ I know he 's very durable and very fit and comes to fight . |
| 5 | By the time they reach brown belt level , however , the kiai should be resembling the sound of a very loud and strenuously emitted ‘ its ’ . |
| 6 | The noise dropped to something merely very loud and then , very quickly , disappeared . |
| 7 | An intuition that this is indeed so may be very difficult to substantiate if the attributions made by members of the dominant society are very loud and very visible , and those of the members of the microsociety hard to come by , perhaps because those members are not easy to contact . |
| 8 | It was very loud and very late . |
| 9 | Ken , in the event neither fulminated nor frothed , and managed to restrict himself to a 15-minute speech in which he advanced some very cogent and well measured arguments for preventing bolting gaining the same sort of prominence it has in other countries — notably France and America . |
| 10 | His establishments are very extensive and extremely well conducted . |
| 11 | A danger of including too much in a simulation is that the results get very extensive and perhaps difficult to comprehend . |
| 12 | Mr D'Arcy had been very , very rich and very shrewd . |
| 13 | Her father was very rich and very proud , with only one child , Miss Havisham , by his first wife . |
| 14 | A very rich and therefore powerful man , as head keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert had the pick of all the prisoners ' possessions as well as the sale of concessions , be it beds , sheets , coals , drink , food , even a wench . |
| 15 | A life-story can often liven up what has become a very dry and even boring area of social research . |
| 16 | We think the project is very practicable and potentially of great benefit to the community ; the re-cycling of the bridge adds a feature of significant historical interest . |
| 17 | The text tends to concentrate on visual descriptions of the paintings along with discussions of iconography and patronage that are both very complete and pleasingly sober in their analysis . |
| 18 | Something very strange and very strong . |
| 19 | The Glasgow underground railway system like the London underground counterpart has some very strange and totally unexplained events . |
| 20 | The other problem with the concept of consent is simply that it is susceptible of very weak and even negative interpretations . |
| 21 | ‘ It was a very political and quite a philosophical discussion , than these occasions usually are . |
| 22 | Mrs. Crawley is the most typical woman of the three discussed — she looks after her husband , cooks his meals , hardly ever reproaches him and she bore his children — very admirable and very boring . |
| 23 | DUCK HOOK : This is when a ball is mishit and flies very low and fast while veering rapidly to the left , usually landing the unfortunate player in terrible trouble . |
| 24 | Note that the load each decade places on the previous decade is not serious because the output impedance of a section is very low and essentially resistive while the input impedance of a decade is large and inductive . |
| 25 | As for the two factors together , the risks appear greatest where very low and very high ( 35 and over ) maternal age combines with short birth intervals and where women over age 34 have children after intervals of 6 and more years . |
| 26 | Unemployment is relatively very low and so is the rate of inflation . |
| 27 | Now , it happens that is a very controversial and highly questionable economic proposition . |
| 28 | Lonsdale Ridge £4.98 We found this had a smooth rounded flavour that was very palatable and very easy to drink . |
| 29 | They are presented here in chronological order and mostly without comment , as their very specific and often personal nature makes them impossible to qualify . |
| 30 | This split made him simultaneously very alert and extremely absent-minded , now on the ball , now off in a world of his own . |