Example sentences of "very [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know that the Ancient Egyptians er did insist on circumcision er they were racially very erm erm er very prejudiced the Ancient Egyptians cos they were living at the peak of cultural time and regarded all other races as inferior to them and one of the main er stigmas in inferiority was erm not being circumcised and Ancient Egyptians regarded people who were n't circumcised as filthy and erm they er they had this tremendous er racial pride in themselves as the circumcised people , and this of course has passed on into Judaism and even to Islamic faith . |
| 2 | The first attempt to tax the very rich a little more heavily was the introduction of death duties in 1889 , by which duty was levied on estates exceeding £10,000 in value . |
| 3 | IMAGINE my surprise on getting through the post an appeal on behalf of the very rich a personalised letter from Chris Patten MP exhorting me to give generously to the Conservative Party or else I might ‘ wake up on the morning after polling day to find Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party are in power ’ . |
| 4 | Morale was very low a few months ago , but it 's beginning to get better now |
| 5 | If your playing action is also very low the resultant sound will be quite horrible ! |
| 6 | I can only conclude by saying that I am very sorry the situation has developed as it has . |
| 7 | We are very sorry the train at number eleven platform eleven , when you get to Lemington on it , get out if you 're going to Banbury , there will be a coach , because there 's a fire at Banbury , well I thought it meant there was something on the other side of the railway , it was , a factory near there so , so then er they get you in |
| 8 | They were escorted down long corridors — cooled by fans , for the weather was still very warm-by a senior aide , who was French , and by his aide , who was Algerian . |
| 9 | Erm I had a phone call just before I came out , area area party , so this 'll come It 's about actually in the ward which we narrowly missed getting last time just by erm not even a very strong The by election is on September twenty third and we want leafleters this weekend , so if anybody is able to go on leafleting , which is right between It 's er I 've got the phone number for Forgot the surname but she works with Bob , so if you ring up and say this Is that Linda who works with Bob . |
| 10 | Did n't smell very strong the top 's been off it . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , suppose you wanted to find out about very strong gravity-the kind you 'd get with a very , very heavy planet or star — but you have n't got such a star handy . |
| 12 | It all looked very different a few years ago . |
| 13 | Although the reality was , and always had been , very different the intention was to design and teach courses of study as a preliminary to an even more specialized university undergraduate course . |
| 14 | They , they 'd beat Arsenal in more recent years in erm in the Milk Cup at Arsenal , that was very exciting a few years ago . |
| 15 | For example , I was very embarrassed a few years ago when all his hoo-ha came out about this erm bishop who was getting this marvellous mansion in the country , and I thought to myself I 'm not totally sure whether this is right . |
| 16 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |
| 17 | Another Orcadian was equally adamant that injustice had been done : ‘ We 're here because we feel it 's very wrong the way the bairns have been uplifted , and they 're being treated quite like criminals really . |
| 18 | The nearer we came to Halifax , we found the houses thicker , and the villages greater in every bottom ; and not only so , but the sides of the hills , which were very steep every way , were spread with houses , and that very thick ; for the land being divided into small enclosures , that is to say , from two acres to six or seven acres each seldom more ; every three or four pieces of land had a house belonging to it . |
| 19 | Unless the slope of the baseline drift is very steep the decline has few practical consequences except to sharpen competitive pressures . |
| 20 | Unless they 're very very careful the supporters of one member , one vote so called will create a narrow and exclusive Party , limited to those lucky people who can stump up an eighteen pounds membership fee without thinking too hard , and in the Britain of nineteen ninety three there are n't quite as many of those as perhaps we would like to see . |
| 21 | It is very interesting the way two different groups react to the same situation . |
| 22 | Whether that renaissance ever really occurred seems very doubtful a few years on — the issues at the centre of Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge continue to be debated but usually with little reference to his work . |
| 23 | Now we move on to the reflector and Irene in particular has got a very high a lot of the others . |
| 24 | On the other hand if the subject 's contrast is very high the dilution of Rodinal can be increased to 1:75 or more to fully develop the negative without over-developing the highlight areas . |
| 25 | to very high the unfortunate thing |
| 26 | That , that , that is high , but then again is very high the activist we do n't , on the courses , we do n't see many activists coming out as high as fifteen or sixteen , they are . |
| 27 | What I have just said shows in fact how very unlike a midget top an electron actually is . |
| 28 | After the meeting he said to one of the local people that it was very unlike the Last Conference in 1913 when he attacked L.G. for 45 minutes amid great applause . |
| 29 | The softness of the female flesh writhing above her was very unlike the firm , muscular body of a man . |
| 30 | A further point which might be made is that the concise , fluent format of the interviewer 's questions is very unlike the format of normal conversation , where false starts , hesitations and ambiguities are the norm ( Schegloff 1979 ) . |