Example sentences of "very [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SO 2 absorbs strongly between 180 and 235nm , weakly between 260 to 340nm and very weakly between 340 to 390 nm . |
| 2 | Both arbitration and litigation have an independent existence beyond any specific application , because they can be used very widely for all kinds of dispute resolution . |
| 3 | In the social sciences at large the word has often been used very loosely for any approach which applies scientific method to human affairs , conceived of as part of the natural order . |
| 4 | A spokesman for the county council said : ‘ Before that unfortunate incident it had been working very successfully for several hours . |
| 5 | Audio recordings have been used very successfully for this purpose . |
| 6 | We normally aim and have achieved very successfully in recent years real price increases above inflation . |
| 7 | Other contacts such as schoolfriends and workmates are only very rarely at higher risk and do not normally need special treatment or investigation . |
| 8 | Only very rarely will a particular experience have such massive effects that it overrides all else , producing identical consequences for any child — at least , very rarely in human development , for it is likely that the effects of early experience seen in animal experiments are in most cases largely due to the enormous scale of the experiences involved . |
| 9 | Even where the level of participation was highest , its emphasis was stressed at the implementation , operation and evaluation phases of the development of a project , very rarely in any earlier planning phase . |
| 10 | Such rock bodies may be either molten , in the strict sense , or they may be solid and move very slowly at elevated temperatures and pressures through a form of plastic flow . |
| 11 | An introductory note says that she used to read prayers very slowly with frequent pauses , which led almost instantaneously to prayer . |
| 12 | However , work progressed very slowly with many pauses for second and third thoughts , and the project outlasted not only Richini but the seventeenth-century . |
| 13 | Cook very slowly for six hours . |
| 14 | You will count very slowly to ten , Hilary admonished herself as she stood in the lane watching Leo 's rapidly diminishing figure . |
| 15 | For these reasons they have grown very slowly in recent years , as Table 3.4 shows , and their comparative importance has declined . |
| 16 | And we know , of course , that the Atlantic is still tearing along the dotted line down its centre , albeit very slowly in human terms . |
| 17 | Well , I do not fish for medals , I fish for pleasure , and while my mates like to net my fish as I like to net theirs , I care very little about petty-minded , selfish ‘ rules ’ . |
| 18 | The long duration of the synaptic conductance means that NMDA receptor-mediated e.p.s.ps summate very effectively during high-frequency transmission . |
| 19 | Where there is compatibility of pitch , the organ can be used very effectively with melodic solo instruments , or as part of an ensemble , or as a continuo instrument to fill in harmonic gaps and add weight of tone and sustaining power . |
| 20 | The adjustment mechanism did not work very effectively in such circumstances , as the history of the operation of the gold standard in the period after the First World War indicates . |
| 21 | The anti-war message , I feel , comes through very effectively in this poem . |
| 22 | The police and the probation service , on the other hand , could impose sanctions , though whether they would have had any effect on Willy , who ‘ was extremely rude and behaved very badly towards all authority ’ , is open to doubt . |
| 23 | On this basis they come out very badly with negative marks on nine out of the thirteen attributes . |
| 24 | These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference . |
| 25 | The change of status , too , from ‘ wife , to ‘ widow ’ is felt very keenly by most women as a loss of considerable significance , which indeed it is ; for without a partner , a woman who has been married for some years may , unless she already has well developed interests outside her home , find that her social life is suddenly transformed in a very disturbing way . |
| 26 | The wretched condition of so many recruits for the Boer War had brought this matter very forcibly into public attention , leading to the extraordinary fact-finding mission of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration in 1904 . |
| 27 | Judy knew Brown Owl would be very cross if she saw Mandy on the other side of the fence — but she did n't have time to worry very long about that , for in a minute or two a loud , frightened scream shrilled from Mandy , who had stepped forward and bent to pick up the ball resting on the bright-green surface of the ground — and found herself up to her knees in treacherous , clinging slime . |
| 28 | Work is very rarely performed by a man without the aid of some machinery and correspondingly machines rarely function for very long without human intervention . |
| 29 | They believe that his hostility is caused by frustration ; apparently he will not play very long at any activity and his speech is unclear . |
| 30 | They believe that his hostility is caused by frustration ; apparently he will not play very long at any activity and his speech is unclear . |