Example sentences of "very [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Husband Roy has always been very supportive and part of the Medau scene . |
| 2 | She must also be a very tolerant and understanding person . |
| 3 | Mistletoe is very scarce and dear this year , and I can offer you seven pounds for it . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The sawmill is a very extensive and well-laid out shop . |
| 5 | 2 , it 's a very normal and routine bit of work for you . |
| 6 | The loch is very weedy and fishing restricted to only a few clear patches ; but there are some super trout to be had , deep bodied and golden in colour . |
| 7 | But is n't , is n't that the quote at the beginning of your book , er , unsigned quote , erm , does n't that say something about how , how , you know , long aired radio biography of someone is very political or sort of er , disregard all of the important things they really done , and I do n't know , I do n't know if it 's er , pertinent erm , but obviously , in Freud , Freud wanted to set out to criticize Wilson erm , so he , you know , he went in with it . |
| 8 | Whether the new production for which there appears to be a market be large or small , the general rule will be that unless the price is expected to be very low that portion of the supply which can be most easily produced , with but small prime costs , will be produced : that portion is not likely to be on the margin of production . |
| 9 | I had a little dress made — it was a strapless taffeta number , very girly and aqua blue . |
| 10 | ’ There is nothing very outstanding or individual about this area — but it 's typical of the countryside where things change slowly . ’ |
| 11 | There comes a time , of course , when your life seems to revolve around very little but hospital wards , white coats , foul-smelling flower-water and comatose doctors . |
| 12 | But my contacts in the trade — I am using three , all very discreet and understanding men — tell me the number of stones involved is very substantial . |
| 13 | They are very friendly and docile with those they know and trust and respond readily to sympathetic handling ( which , again , is characteristic of the zebu ) but the bulls can be as vicious and spiteful as any Spanish fighting bull . |
| 14 | He knew it had been a failure with a contemporary audience , however , and he looked very sallow and melancholy a few days after its openings . |
| 15 | ‘ Very tall and dark , ’ I said , lying . |
| 16 | He followed her with an easy stride , blocked her escape , looming very tall and dark above her . |
| 17 | Erm perhaps money could be spent on on face-lifting the areas , because a lot of the structures the s themselves seem very stable and sound . |
| 18 | At this time Moggach met the man on whom the character of Mac in the book is based , and as she recalls it : ‘ I became very rebellious and sort of opted out . ’ |
| 19 | Sterling 's devaluation should make a positive difference to industry 's competitiveness and profitability ; but the impact on exports may not be very strong while growth in continental Europe continues to slow . |
| 20 | There we were met by a Ministry official and an interpreter , who showed us something of the city and were very pleasant and chatty . |
| 21 | Whereas if someone who is normally very placid and kind became ill , say with an earache and at the same time became irritable and bad tempered , then this would be a highly significant symptom . |
| 22 | Very tasty as salad , lemon dressing . |
| 23 | All air travel to Iceland is through Keflavik airport , about fifty kilometres from Reykjavik , a beautiful modern terminal , and one of very few where duty free is available on arrival . |
| 24 | These findings suggest that fixed-term contract workers and agency workers are not always direct substitutes for one another ( in other words , that resort to one might be made for reasons very different than resort to the other ) . |
| 25 | Their families will also find life very different and testing . |
| 26 | One 60-year-old campesina woman felt that her life would have been very different if family planning had been available in her day : |
| 27 | She felt a great surge of depression and a feeling of imminent disaster as though she were very old and death was not far away . |
| 28 | Cos started a union up , but that was after when I was working at Squires but there was n't , there was n't a union , a union at all then , but er there was keen competition between Tonkses and cos they and , I mean they all developed the Yale and er we used to get a lot of visitors around , and er you used to get a lot of American visitors around , but erm it 's a it 's a very very old town is n't it , very old because mother used to do her shopping there and there were n't any buses running , but we used to go by wagonette from er to do the Saturday shopping er Applobish used to run the wagonettes and the daughter used to drive the two horses and |
| 29 | I was not very old when Dad told me that if you stood under it for very long , it would attract the coins out of your pocket . |
| 30 | This type of training is very demanding and rest and food intake are most important . |