Example sentences of "were not very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richards had to acknowledge that what he called ‘ the relatively cultivated youth of our age ’ were not very familiar with poetry . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , when I was there , I found middle-class Presbyterians who were not very different from Anglicans . |
| 3 | The songs were not very good , with irregular rhymes and metres , but included oddities such as a lengthy ballad recounting the adventures of the characters of Dallas . |
| 4 | Although there were tracks , they were not very clear , and the going was made harder by the tree roots and vines which tripped up anyone who was foolish enough to try to look around . |
| 5 | We were not very happy to find that Hillsborough had been chosen and even less so when we were allocated the Leppings Lane End . |
| 6 | Richard 's parents were also in favour of this proposal as they were not very keen on their son entering the Christian Ministry . |
| 7 | Although memories were an important source ( despite being contradictory on occasions ! ) , they were more anecdotal than factual — and unfortunately were not very ‘ historic ’ . |
| 8 | The first attempts in 1953 were not very successful . |
| 9 | Different types of reform unit emerged , but the most common , known as Peasant Committees , were not very different in their organisation from the previous land settlements . |
| 10 | Leeds City , whose wartime league was to be the Midland Section , were not very hard hit by the dispersal of players . |
| 11 | But even the 1953 laws were not very detailed . |
| 12 | These districts were not very fruitful in peat , and they would have to carry them from a distance of many miles ; in some cases a pavement of large stones led from the main road to the door of the dwelling . |
| 13 | At that time , although the night work had to continue , we were not very busy , and instead of having two Waafs on all night we were allowed to split the night between us , changing over at 2am . |
| 14 | There is no guarantee on PPs — you could do better , but if inflation went up , or the stock market turned sour , or the people you were buying it from were not very clever , you could do very much worse . |
| 15 | In general his foregrounds were not very successful and indeed often seem an irrelevant hangover from his classical training . |
| 16 | Non-aqueous systems resisted corrosion , but were not very efficient . |
| 17 | Whilst dressing the models she tried to chat to them and ask how they had come by their jobs but they were not very forthcoming . |
| 18 | Things were not very good in those days , and the financial situation was very worrying . |
| 19 | Although the family ties were not very close , we have always been very friendly and spent quite a lot of time together . |
| 20 | This was necessary because the nets were not very high and one rabbit caught midway between stakes would sag the net and allow other rabbits to escape over the top . |
| 21 | ‘ You were not very convincing , perhaps , ’ Markios said . |
| 22 | The results were not very impressive : traditional policies were simply abandoned , while , for every intractable problem , a new quango was proposed . |
| 23 | Men , on the other hand , it was suggested , preferred to work a normal day and were not very fond of shift work . |
| 24 | By this time , Telford Avenue and Brixton Hill were regarded as one depôt for administrative purposes , they were not very far apart and were no longer shown separately in car allocation lists . |
| 25 | We were not very successful in doing this , although an officer of the Department , U Sein Ywet , was charged with the task of getting in touch with abbots and monks . |
| 26 | Her sister-in-law 's glad rags were not very glad . |
| 27 | ‘ I hate to say it , Uncle Alfred , but some of the things they said were not very nice at all — starving , poison , ambush and attack . ’ |
| 28 | They were not very efficient , the people who prepared you in London . |
| 29 | They were not very young , and from the back-slapping and laughter I could see through the glass rear doors in fine form . |
| 30 | In the main , Henry 's personal objectives were not very different from Anselm 's : he too wanted a well organized church , clergy who obeyed the rules of clerical life , and monasteries which met the needs of a feudal kingdom and baronage . |