Example sentences of "very [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An agony which could only be intensified if she entered into his very practical , very unfeeling arranged marriage . |
| 2 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 3 | No one says you could train a monkey to use it ; but ‘ you could train a very unintelligent operative ’ . |
| 4 | Because the bang had made a very loud nossy ! |
| 5 | Oh yeah , oh I do n't know that 's very loud next door is n't it ? |
| 6 | For this reason , although it is possible for an armchair academic like me to imagine a number of very profitable working experiments taking place involving length of schooling , age of entry and patterns of teacher deployment , in fact such controlled experiments are not common . |
| 7 | All at TODAY Racing would like to wish you a happy Christmas and a very profitable 1993 . |
| 8 | One particular night , young John Armitage , a very junior passed engine cleaner had no notion of the bridge 's notoriety . |
| 9 | Civil war — even if very low-key civil war — had begun , and would last until July 1560 , by which time the regent herself would be dead . |
| 10 | ‘ You 're a very noticing young woman , ’ said Mrs Baggley with affection . |
| 11 | This was variable with some biopsies showing very florid regenerative features ( Fig 2A ) . |
| 12 | This only illustrates how very scarce male dancers were at the time . ’ |
| 13 | Previously a very short-legged blocky type , it is growing longer , leaner and taller , especially during the last 10–20 years in America , Australia and New Zealand , by careful and selective breeding . |
| 14 | How such probably very extensive unmet need will be met without a substantial increase in resources remains to be seen . |
| 15 | In total nearly 400 data sheets were completed , which , with our questionnaires and the CRUS questionnaires , as well as further material supplied , provided very extensive anecdotal comments and examples of practice , as well as statistical information . |
| 16 | This has not been the case with the LDDC , where a very extensive regenerative programme has characterized the corporation 's activities in an area of about 5,000 acres downstream of Tower Bridge ( see Figure 3 , p. xiii ) . |
| 17 | The enthusiasm for the natural-entity model of the company can be linked with a new justification given for the vesting of very extensive discretionary power in corporate management which is independent of the contractual justification which appears so clearly in English case-law . |
| 18 | The range of courses on offer is very extensive these include the following : — |
| 19 | Very extensive medieval and Islamic remains . |
| 20 | But in some areas EDs are very extensive physical units and the shapes will be quite distorted . |
| 21 | But Herbert , for all his bourgeois , very respectable Victorian background and his own tendency to womanizing , made no attempt to dissuade his son . |
| 22 | AMV returned very respectable pre-tax profits for 1991 of £5.02m , which gives AMV ‘ a robust appearance in the current circumstances ’ , says Kleinwort Benson analyst David Forster . |
| 23 | ‘ A very respectable looking lady , dear , ’ she said , ‘ wearing a million dollar perfume . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm a very respectable American soldier , ’ he said . |
| 25 | His nomenclature has a very respectable literary history . |
| 26 | He got through and completed the event in a very respectable three hours 57 minutes . |
| 27 | The distant sound of the diesels deepened — the Ariadne was capable of a very respectable 35 knots — and the bridge began to vibrate quite noticeably . |
| 28 | Working through the various pickup combinations yielded some very respectable semi-acoustic tones and , with a little bit of fiddling , some believable electro-acoustic sounds . |
| 29 | Even so , a significantly bigger tank than before ( 14.3 against 12.1 gallons ) has pushed the range up to a very respectable 386 miles , based on a touring consumption of 27.0mpg . |
| 30 | The very rich religious vestments on display date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and were used for many different ceremonies . |