Example sentences of "very much " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sick of Portraits and wish very much to take my viol-da-gamba and walk off to some sweet village , where I can paint landskips and enjoy the fag-end of life in quietness and ease . |
| 2 | Even though the same might be argued for painting , the technical obstacles to be overcome for painting are very much less than for sculpture . |
| 3 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 4 | Patrick is still having difficulties with girls : the married man keeps going to bed with them , not liking it very much and not liking the distress it brings to a wife whom he does like and who is carefully crafted to be likeable . |
| 5 | It would take someone who was very much intent on a punishment of biography to think of pointing the way to Difficulties with girls by mentioning its proximity to The Waste Land . |
| 6 | That Bellow , this participant in Roth 's inner life , can also be said to be out there in the world as his friend , and perhaps his rival , is a fact which does not help one to decide whether or not to trust the reports of literary duality — what comes in has to have been out — but it is very much in the tradition . |
| 7 | Nor do they describe the sort of thing we are supposed to like very much . |
| 8 | But I had very little idea of anything at the time and I did n't do very much acting . |
| 9 | If the tradition still exists today — and it appears that it very much does so — it implies that the United Kingdom does not have for many loyalists a natural character of statehood in the way the Southern state has for catholic nationalists . |
| 10 | ‘ However , from a management company perspective , we feel that doing business there very much depends on associating with the right partner . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The cinema is not a place I am very much attending . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My friends , ’ he said , ‘ you will regret this very much . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Which does n't get us very much furth … wait a minute , Inspector , wait a minute . ’ |
| 14 | In cases of harassment , the law seems to be very much on the side of the landlord . |
| 15 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 16 | Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques . |
| 17 | This used existing stone pillars , together with new replicas so that the whole design is very much in keeping with the original architecture . |
| 18 | Very much . |
| 19 | I like , too , like very much , like a drowning person likes the feel of solid ground on their delirious tide-washed body . |
| 20 | Very much . |
| 21 | This depends very much upon the individual , but peer-group support is often invaluable . |
| 22 | He was never bothered to marry , or to do anything else very much , they say . |
| 23 | Aniela Jaff has spoken of ‘ the mysterious and lonely poetry , ’ which she finds in Chagall 's art , a ‘ ghostly aspect of things that only rare individuals may see , ’ which very much encapsulates Leonard 's work , too . |
| 24 | Her view that we should encourage schools to take up tennis is one that is very much at the heart of our philosophy . |
| 25 | We very much hope to have the new materials ready before the end of 1991 — watch this space ! |
| 26 | The strict rules of disposing of redundant vehicles by public tender was forgotten for the rest of the stock , dismantled very much behind closed doors at Derby Works . |
| 27 | These dances mattered very much to Petipa and all nineteenthcentury balletmasters because they were expected to show off the wealth of talent found in the many imperial , Royal and State theatres , e.g. all the characters from other fairy tales who came to Aurora 's wedding and the character dances in Swan Lake . |
| 28 | The truly heroic character of Lemminkainen in the great Finnish epic Kalevala acts , according to the story , very much in the same way as the heroes of the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf or the French Song of Roland and many other heroic poems . |
| 29 | ‘ Lately , he 's been very much in love because he saw the April issue of Dogs Today with Julian Clary 's dog , Fanny , on the cover . |
| 30 | The line itself was very much state-of-the-art for the time , driven by punched paper tape and the section between London and Tehran had ten Wheatstone automatic repeaters installed as standard . |