Example sentences of "very [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the however we got by and it was a very progressive wee bakery . |
| 2 | They could not cope even with very enhanced staffing levels and very supportive community care services . |
| 3 | The reason was they set their alarm , they were terribly conscientious about setting their alarm clock so they 'd wake up in the morning to go to the exam , and er it was a very loud alarm clock so not the kind of thing you could sleep through , but come the morning of the exam the alarm went off and the student started to dream that they were out hearing church bells or something , you know they 're walking around hearing all these church bells , thinking is n't it nice , you know , it 's Sunday morning , oh I could go on sleeping . |
| 4 | Now make a very loud esss sound and continue the sound slowly until you run out of breath . |
| 5 | Status . — Rare winter visitor ; very scarce passage migrant . |
| 6 | With the exception of some early state papers in private collections and most notably , the very extensive India Office records , which effectively ceased to be produced in 1948 , the Special Collections of the British Library are for the most part private in their origin and unpredictable in the manner and timing of their acquisition . |
| 7 | The Water & Ventilation Services reduce the incidence of Legionnaires ' Disease and Sick Building syndrome with a very extensive water cleansing and treatment service . |
| 8 | A considerable proportion of the archive relates to the very extensive survey work carried out by BGS 's Applied Geophysics Unit for the Department of Trade and Industry 's Mineral Reconnaissance Programme in the 1970s , and the archiving has therefore been supported with both MRP and BGS funds . |
| 9 | Erm very extensive business park development took place , land values on these industrial areas rose accordingly and all manufacturing uses were either er destabilized because their land values now became greater than the businesses that were on them , or new manufacturing plant simply could not acquire the land at affordable prices because there were always people willing to buy it for B one . |
| 10 | I have a very extensive tool kit and am employed in the motorcycle industry and desperately need the challenge of something more worthwhile and reasonably long term . |
| 11 | The woodlands of perhaps the greatest historic interest are those which make up the very extensive Bardney Forest . |
| 12 | He released himself gently as he could and stood up , half-laughing ‘ That was a very strenuous good-night kiss , ’ he said . |
| 13 | That honour went to the Phoenix , which despite having been in the wars , returned a very respectable Power Index of 11,857 . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't worry , misses , ’ the driver said staring at her in open curiosity , ‘ I 'll take you to a very respectable lodging house run by a real lady . |
| 15 | It then had the good fortune of lengthy bureaucratic delays in setting up the DTB in Frankfurt , which enabled LIFFE to establish a very liquid Bund contract market . |
| 16 | Although only £1,000 was actually gained from the deal , they had seen the SFO investigation as ‘ the beginnings of a very rich gold seam ’ that they could tap , the judge said . |
| 17 | RIGHT On very dry sites water can be used to bring out different soil colours . |
| 18 | Two Eye Contour Balms ‘ For all skin types ’ and ‘ Special ’ for very dry eye contour areas . |
| 19 | Rachaela thought they must look a very normal family group : Emma the fond grandmother ; Rachaela the mother with her black-haired baby . |
| 20 | Reference to the actual grant of arms showed that it had a very strange limitations clause , for the arms were assigned to Thomas Magnall and his offspring and ‘ any such of the Descendants of his Father who shall write their Names Magnall and by no Others ’ ! |
| 21 | When the mail eventually did arrive , I received this very strange Christmas card which said , ‘ This year we will marry ’ . |
| 22 | What sort of people This is a man who dresses up remember , in very strange scotch plaid trousers and jackets . |
| 23 | This puts these countries in a very weak bargaining position . |
| 24 | In any case large-scale planned colonisation schemes have a very low success rate . |
| 25 | A completely brittle material like glass is reasonably safe as long as we are content to operate it at a very low stress level , for instance as a shop window , because the Griffith crack length is then quite long and so the material is safe against minor chips and abrasions . |
| 26 | In the secretory state glucose absorption ( Fig 4 ) from UK-ORS was not different from all the other ORS despite the very low water absorption . |
| 27 | Since he has a very fluent running style , with little lateral arm movement and a very low leg lift , it is often hard to tell when Zarei is weary , but at the 6-Day race on the Gateshead Stadium track last October , it was clear he ran to his absolute limit . |
| 28 | Of 20 controlled trials identified , 12 trials were randomised trials and provided ‘ intention to treat ’ data : six community trials in developing countries , three in children admitted to hospital with measles , and three in very low birth weight infants . |
| 29 | ‘ Whether to be a very High Church clergyman with a short lacy surplice , or a very Low Church clergyman with long grey moustaches . ’ |
| 30 | However , unless the pond has a very low stocking level , there will not be enough natural food available to maintain the fish in good condition . |