Example sentences of "[adv] [art] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam Chisholm , chief executive of Sky , which is partly owned by TODAY publishers News International , said : ‘ The new deal will bring all the biggest stars of world golf to Sky Sports , making it arguably the very best sports channel in the world . ’ |
| 2 | Day hospitals have sprung up to assist the process of rehabilitation after acute illness which can herald the onset of chronic disability and handicap ; their patients are overwhelmingly the very old ( Donaldson et al. |
| 3 | 2 Two or more words normally associating with each other and having much the same meaning as the nominal phrase , eg the very poor , a summit meeting . |
| 4 | The best forms of oats to feed horses , especially the very young or old , are possibly ‘ steamed and rolled ’ or ‘ bruised ’ oats . |
| 5 | Low tide is the best time to see birds from a boat — and low tide , especially the very low tide of early spring , is the best time to get stuck on a sandbank ! |
| 6 | In almost every society we know something about , except perhaps the very simplest , there are individuals who specialize in music or who are regarded as more skilled ; in this respect , notation brings about not a total change but an added stimulus , and even without it , there can develop — as in blues or in British ‘ folk ’ traditions — an idea of particular songs being attached in some way to individuals : ‘ that 's X 's song ’ . |
| 7 | Perhaps the very first thing you will discover in acquiring a knowledge of actual police work , though it is in fact obvious , is that the sort of murders the police deal with are very different from the sort of murders that the detectives of detective stories dealt with . |
| 8 | Raffles was an ex-public schoolboy , a distinguished amateur cricketer — ‘ perhaps the very finest slow bowler of his decade ’ — who shone in society and at Lord 's by day , and burgled by night . |
| 9 | Try to give pride of place to one prized item : maybe the most valuable , or the most spectacular , perhaps the very first of your collection , or the one that was special gift or heirloom . |
| 10 | So the very few that were still on the road I really treasured and appreciated seeing . |
| 11 | They demanded the very best in everything , especially in accommodation and service and so the very best hotels in Europe were built to cater for their every whim . |
| 12 | Reduction in capital expenditure er broadly offset the reduced erm income from partnerships and associates which is basically our Lazard income , that 's so the very good er contribution we got in ninety one reflected the nineteen ninety er profits they were earning . |
| 13 | So the very simple question is , if I wanted a higher allocation to units , who am I asking the question to , Sue is it yours . |
| 14 | And so the very next day Helen told us of a night time that he was gon na stay and early in the morning he come back door with some papers and I said oh take well it never comes to more than six pound ninety or seven pound fifty but he calls it . |
| 15 | For me the most dangerous aspect of the job has been not so much the very real dangers in the field as the psychological vertigo of alternating for months at a time between the utter extremes of the planet ; from the film markets of California 's Hollywood Hills , where I rented an A-frame , to the remotest jungles of the East . |
| 16 | Rapid progress across country is largely a matter of finding and using effectively only the very strongest of thermals . |
| 17 | Unless you already have a non-return valve fitted ( and only the very newest installations will have this built-in ) a double-check and drain valve is needed to comply with the law . |
| 18 | Only the very perceptive and those with clear information and a wide perspective over events could fully grasp the interrelationship of these developments . |
| 19 | All 's well , if only the very large and very sticky buds in the tree-tops would burst into leaf . |
| 20 | It is very different from our usual trip programme — there is so much to do and see , and we 've been selective in choosing only the very best . |
| 21 | In all other respects , however , our group seem to present a typical spread , excluding only the very small minority too seriously ill to be interviewed . |
| 22 | The Hayes Society claimed to admit butlers of ‘ only the very first rank ’ . |
| 23 | But , more important , the participating schools should not take only the very clever . |
| 24 | But most musicassettes still use only the very cheapest ferric oxide tape , so quality is poor and musicassettes are not popular with hi-fi buffs . |
| 25 | But surely , if people feel they can produce something which will stand up to repeated inspection , one should expect only the very best . |
| 26 | But only the very cheapest food . |
| 27 | Only the very rich could afford to get hold of the real product , bottled and matured in the region itself . |
| 28 | We 're not going to award these prizes arbitrarily each month , either — only the very best will be good enough ! |
| 29 | In Nottingham , tenants ' outlook is good ; only the very best new space costs as much as £11 a sq ft . |
| 30 | Unless you already have a non-return valve fitted ( and only the very newest installations will have this built in ) , a double-check and drain valve is needed to comply with the law . |