Example sentences of "very [adj] and a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum is reached at one or two atomic spacings ahead of the crack but the distribution is not very peaky and a fairly high tensile stress level exists over a considerable area ahead of the crack . |
| 2 | Almost colourless we found this very dry and a bit tart . |
| 3 | And so finally I must say to you once again , welcome to South Cambridgeshire , and I hope that this will be a very pleasant and a very informative symposium . |
| 4 | The ability to recast an expression from one language into the form of another depends on reference to some underlying construct of meaning which may establish a resemblance between expressions which appear very different and a distinction between expressions which appear to resemble each other . |
| 5 | She is very old and a bit soft in the head , you know ; my advice is to take this offer before she dies ! ’ |
| 6 | It 's very windy and a lot of my people have had troublew with the high winds , being knocked off the ridge . |
| 7 | There were the usual circulars , a few invitations to nothing very exciting and a batch of bills . |
| 8 | Mother and Toddler classes are currently very popular and a leaflet on this type of class is being produced . |
| 9 | The bridge across the gjøgv seemed very slender and a long way above the sea surging below , but we made our way safely across and walked out to the end of the hølmur to where we could overlook the gannet colony . |
| 10 | It was very dark and a clock chimed three somewhere in the distance . |
| 11 | So up until then , being very cautious and a canny Scot , I hung the instrument wrapped in a piece of rag outside the window of my bed space on a nail , just in case somebody came round whilst we were either at school or the workshops . |
| 12 | Henry Veitch , from Selkirk in Scotland , was very colourful and a well-liked figure in Madeira . |
| 13 | Rosie was very insecure and a bundle of nerves . |
| 14 | She was a pretty girl with fair curly hair and brown eyes , very self-possessed and a good dancer . |
| 15 | Feeling very scruffy and a little bereft , I watched the Gas Guzzler cream out of Oban Bay north and westwards . |
| 16 | The Glasgow they evoke is a very hard and a very lively place . |
| 17 | This may be difficult when the warren is very large and a corresponding number of purse nets is needed but when working on burrow systems , rather than on the much larger warrens , twenty nets are often sufficient . |
| 18 | Even in our progressive and sanguine moods , the utmost that we hoped for was a very gradual and a very tentative improvement . |
| 19 | Over half of teachers found the LEA guidelines to be useful for writing the report ; a quarter had found them not very useful and a fifth were unsure about this . |
| 20 | The strings feel very bendable and a low , choke-free action tells me that all is well with the neck . |
| 21 | When a kick is employed by an attacker , the force behind it is very powerful and a head-on clash may well break the defender 's arm . |
| 22 | England , on the other hand , had a comparatively short Romanesque period of development following an extensive Saxon one but a very long and a unique building period in Gothic architecture emerging into a tardy Renaissance , nearly the last in Europe except for that of the Iberian peninsula . |
| 23 | Nellie was very good and a natural musician who could play without looking at the piano which meant she could watch the dancing at the same time . |
| 24 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 25 | ‘ The response was again very good and a lively question and answer session told me that the students found the talk helpful , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Our family and friends think it is very good and a lot better than the Aussie soaps . |
| 27 | But I felt very lonely and a little afraid . |
| 28 | Stuart is just like everybody else , except he is very short and a mouse . |
| 29 | It had been b I think a lot of the mills had been during the very , the years after the war , they had been very busy and a lot of them would build sheds and b take up looms that were , you , they probably had new looms on order but they were filled with a lot of scrap almost you know , anything they could get that work , work . |
| 30 | Mrs Binks was very fat and a filthy dress hung shapelessly on her as she slumped , cigarette in mouth , over the kitchen table She was absorbed in a magazine which lay in a clearing among mounds of dirty dishes and her curlers nodded as she looked up briefly at us . |