Example sentences of "[vb -s] from very " in BNC.

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1 In other words , the most difficult tasks found within any given layer are all characterized by the same type or category of complexity , just as water remains in the same liquid state from 0 degrees to 100 degrees Celsius , even though it ranges from very cold to very hot .
2 Under this category there are also requests for assistance which amount to acts of community welfare , such as calls to lift aged and disabled people on to and off the toilet as well as into bed , and calls from very distressed pensioners and young children concerning lost pets ( on the police as a social service see Punch 1979b ; Punch and Naylor 1973 ) .
3 The sound varies from very good to slightly rough , but Tacchino maintains high artistic and technical standards throughout , never sounding jaded even in the most familiar pieces .
4 Though the proportion of low birth weight infants decreases from very young maternal ages and from first birth order towards the prime childbearing ages and higher order births , it increases again considerably at later ages and from third and fourth birth orders ( Hungary , 1970 ; Selvin and Garfinkel , 1972 ; Chakraborty et al , 1975 ) .
5 Extreme ultraviolet radiation arises from very hot objects and has a wavelength between 100 and 912 angstroms , shorter than that of normal ultraviolet radiation ( see ‘ A new wave in astronomy ’ , New Scientist , 30 September 1989 ) .
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