Example sentences of "very [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet these examples , too , are significant , for they underline the unfortunate truth that the production and distribution of books to primary schools are important enough , financially , to attract the very largest species of shark against whom the professional at the ministry or in the centre ( who is usually no more than an average sized fish ) has little redress . |
| 2 | Bob Gunnell , of course , is an was and has been for some time a very supportive member of South East Arts and active in many of its committees . |
| 3 | Barclaycard are a very profitable part of the Barclays organisation . |
| 4 | It is one of the very few search firms whose results are published in Kompass , which reveals not only the firm 's rapid rise in turnover but a striking rate of return on capital employed , indicating the potentially very profitable nature of the headhunting business . |
| 5 | We were a pioneer of a necessary but very undesirable kind of activity . |
| 6 | The foundations of personal care in families The picture which emerges from evidence about personal care given to relatives is one of very extensive amounts of support , especially at particular points in the life course . |
| 7 | A. premaxilla of adult vole showing splitting and breakage of the incisors ( ×11 ) ; B. enlargement of the tips of the incisors ( ×38 ) ; C. further enlargement showing the mesial borders of the broken right incisor ( on the left ) and of the cracked left incisor ( on the right ) , both showing advanced splitting and flaking of the surface enamel ( cf Fig. 1.4H ) ( ×112 ) ; D. occlusal surface of vole molar ( ×75 ) ; E. enlargement of portion of the tooth to show very extensive chipping of both enamel and dentine surfaces ( ×188 ) ; F. lower incisor in mandible ( ×22 ) ; G. extensive splitting and flaking of mandibular ramus of vole mandible ( ×20 ) ; H. extensive splitting and flaking of inferior angle of the mandible ( ×52 ) . |
| 8 | In other cases though , it becomes more difficult to pinpoint what might or might not act as a reward without very extensive knowledge of the animal 's previous experience . |
| 9 | We do well to remember that many can live incredibly full lives and develop a very extensive range of sympathy and understanding , who live only within a geographically and culturally restricted circle . |
| 10 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 11 | New mechanisms would need to be fashioned in order to assert political and judicial control over the very extensive citadels of private power , on the one hand , and the growing accretion of central government authority on the other . |
| 12 | While it includes a very extensive list of dangerous or insalubrious work conditions for women , the two specific demands of women workers , equal pay for equal work and the provision of nursery facilities , do not receive the same emphasis . |
| 13 | Certainly , although having a resident population of just over a thousand , it can claim to be the capital of a very extensive area of the north , there being no larger town within forty miles . |
| 14 | If , in addition , the judiciary then substitute their opinion as to the precise meaning that each of these terms should bear for that of the initial decision-maker , the result will be a very extensive form of review . |
| 15 | A very extensive programme of interviews and participant observation generated assessments of the work of the CMHTs and of the changes in the service system . |
| 16 | Theology had long been familiar with this kind of argument , and had on occasion made very extensive use of it . |
| 17 | As trends move away from very hierarchical forms of management the challenge is to find , not so much the furthest point away from you to which to delegate , but the most appropriate . |
| 18 | After this we settled down to some serious patrolling and there followed a very strenuous tour of duty which lasted until the following November . |
| 19 | Oh , is it any oh is it very strenuous sort of thing ? |
| 20 | Mrs. G. is a very respectable kind of woman . ’ |
| 21 | Evang. 9.27.4 ) : a statement which caused such pain to very respectable scholars of the nineteenth century , like J. Freudenthal ( Alexander Polyhistor , 143–74 ) and A. von Gutschmid ( Kl . |
| 22 | Mark came in with a very respectable time of three and a half hours in his first marathon . |
| 23 | and ran the race three-legged , and finished in the very respectable time of five hours 21 minutes . |
| 24 | But , after a shaky start , they managed a very respectable record of two wins in five matches , including a thumping 17–0 victory over Yorkshire Ladies ‘ B ’ . |
| 25 | We emphasised in section 5.1 that bills are a very liquid form of asset . |
| 26 | Erm , th I 'd like to make a couple of points about traditions , women 's traditions , one is particularly looking at th the oral tradition o , the tradition of poetry in Scotland , and there 's a very rich tradition of Gaelic poetry , and ballad singing , as |
| 27 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 28 | The third pressure comes from the push by Meekatharra Minerals to exploit the very rich deposits of lignite in Ballymoney and develop a private sector power station . |
| 29 | In such an economy , and also in the earlier phases of primitive agricultural communities , the coast and the larger river valleys provided very rich sources of food for small bands of people ; many Mesolithic sites have been recognised in such areas . |
| 30 | One of the attractions of this developmental explanation of children 's language is that it is a very rich source of ideas for remedial strategies . |