Example sentences of "very [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Very tasty as salad , lemon dressing . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | One 60-year-old campesina woman felt that her life would have been very different if family planning had been available in her day : |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Many rabbis expected a Messiah after the destruction of the Second Temple , and the greatest of them , Rabbi Akiva , found his Messiah in Bar Kochba under Hadrian , though it is very doubtful whether Bar Kochba himself even claimed Messianic status . |
| 9 | It is not very clear whether section 17(2) adds a third element or is subsumed in ( b ) , but it is clear that it was intended to be more difficult to obtain an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases than in others . |
| 10 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
| 11 | Hard and fast information was very restricted because abuse occurred privately . |
| 12 | Call , a loud ringing ‘ kata , kata ’ , frequently uttered in flight , can be very puzzling when light too bright to see birds overhead . |
| 13 | This is all very well until equipment fails or filters become blocked . |
| 14 | Unfortunately , synthetic , stable , orally-active PG analogues are not very effective as antiulcer drugs . |
| 15 | I am very honoured as Rector to be associated with this great University and hope that during my period of office should you decide to come here , that I may be of assistance to you during that time . |
| 16 | But for large jumps in yield , the linear approximation will become very poor if convexity is high . |
| 17 | They were a friendly family and very helpful when Breeze , seeing them take so much trouble over finding a suitable board , told them what she hoped to do with it . |
| 18 | representing that , but you know and I know that it did n't stay like that , I do n't know how long , but it did n't stay like it for very long because sin crept in , that circle was marred , it was twisted , that intermit original fellowship with God was broken , let me read you a verse there in Genesis chapter three and verse eight , it 's , it 's Adam and Eve it says they heard the sound of the lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord God among the trees of the garden , for the first time since Adam had first been created they hide from God , they hear him coming , it 's the time when God will come , and they hear him that were walking through the garden using picture language , and they go and hide , they 're ashamed to see him , they do n't want to look upon him , something has happened that perfect circle has been marred , what it was like yesterday , things are different now , there 's that unclean feeling , there 's that guilt complex , we 've done it wrong , we 've failed to keep what God 's said , we 've broken the rules and when you break the rules , it 's not just the rules that are broken is it , you know it and I know it , in relationships , it 's not just the rules that get broken , it 's the relationship is marred . |
| 19 | Dodge corners very flat though composure is quickly lost . |
| 20 | It 's also very good if board members can attend to er not merely to support the staff er and to celebrate the event but also , if necessary , to talk to the press or to er engage er with guests and so on and so forth . |
| 21 | That 's very important because vaginitis is n't just uncomfortable — it can be associated with premature labour and pelvic infections leading to infertility . |
| 22 | Yet understanding where older customers fit in to the scheme of things is very important if discrimination is to be avoided , because it will influence both the products and the marketing approach . |
| 23 | The shop had suddenly become very busy as Christmas approached , and although the cycling was finished Anne and Sarah continued to spend every spare moment enjoying themselves . |
| 24 | I seemed to miss out on all the fun in those days , my spells afloat were few and far between , while ashore at Felixstowe I was very busy as trade in that port was building up rapidly . |
| 25 | ‘ There are exceptions , like Pizza Express , which has survived for so long and is still very successful because quality is paramount . |
| 26 | Their results did , however , confirm another effect evident in the original Kraemer and Roberts study — that the effects of a long retention interval can be very apparent when pre-exposure is given to a stimulus different from that used for conditioning and the test . |
| 27 | A wonderfully romantic addition to any garden , they are also very practical as pigeon manure is particularly rich in nitrogen . |
| 28 | The room was very clean although Finn was not . |
| 29 | Most people here would be very worried if information about them turned up in Greece , or in other European Community countries , based upon suspicion . |
| 30 | Prediction from context is not normally very efficient since language is essentially unpredictable . |