Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it [is] very [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Tom adds that it is very important for young horses to have their teeth checked before they are bitted and broken ; racehorses usually have their first session at two years-old .
2 They should also know that it is very important that there must be established in the child 's mind at a very early age a dawning awareness of the fact that for all his life he will be required to submit to control from some source or other .
3 The debate will take place today and tomorrow behind closed doors , but party insiders say that it is very unlikely that Mr Mugabe will face serious opposition .
4 In Chapter 2 , I argued that it is very important to test the system as a whole as early as possible rather than to develop components in isolation .
5 In itself there is little harm in this , but I have noticed that it is very easy for the quest to become obsessional .
6 Professor Simmonds is correct when he says that it is very hard to isolate the part played by railways in the growth of towns and the development of the countryside from all the other economic and social factors of the nineteenth century .
7 He says that it 's very spectacular .
8 When wearing crampons it 's important to remember that it 's very easy to spike yourself and trip up .
9 Imagine that it 's very cold and dark , that you 're old and hungry and that you love stealing and making trouble for people . ‘
10 Almost a quarter ( 22 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 and 23 per cent aged 75 + ) consider that it is very likely that someone of their age will develop a serious illness over the next ten years .
11 Oh very good , good , watch that it 's very easy to get it the wrong way round .
12 Instead of pointing out the errors you may be told that it is very good but have been better in a darker wood !
13 A little misleading in two respects , on is I think the average person does n't realize that it 's very hard to perceive very much of a difference when there 's only a twenty to thirty percent reduction .
14 In fact , a close examination of a section tucked away right at the end of the Act reveals that it is very vague .
15 One contributor replied that it is very difficult to create new jobs at all and especially difficult to attract jobs to Northern Ireland .
16 You will appreciate that it is very difficult to apply to your institution , please attempt an approximate quantification of notional time spent on language work , and indicate the problem in a footnote .
17 Well without sort of , saying because I work in that department , it 's good , erm I sincerely believe that it is very good .
18 I also believe that it is very unlikely to produce the kind of answers that can be summarized in a final report .
19 They 're offering a gift , you know … the fact that each one is a piece of work , so much has gone into it that it 's something very special , and I understand that it 's very nerve-wracking for them to offer it , to perform it …
20 That is what I have in my kitchen and I find that it is very simple to lift and scrub the tiles that take the most punishment , like the ones by the cooker .
21 In this corpus we find that it is very rare for an ellipsis to occur without a linguistic antecedent , and in those cases where one does , it is usually for special effect .
22 Er we feel that it 's very important that we do have an additional ten so that er what before next day to Royston and initially on a temporary basis erm for at er er Watford so we address the problems in those areas .
23 I feel that it is very important that everybody playing tennis has good technique .
24 However , it is important to realise that it is very difficult for a speaker to make a syllable louder without changing other characteristics of the syllable such as those explained below ( ii-iv ) ; if one literally changes only the loudness , the perceptual effect is not very strong .
25 Some people argue that it is very difficult to write without making use of masculine pronouns or words with a masculine connotation when they are also referring to women .
26 Says Melville , ‘ We learned that it 's very difficult to live and work together . ’
27 The version of Presentations we 've been looking at is a Beta 2 release , which means that it is very close to being the final code , and it 's expected that only bug-fixes and minor cosmetic changes will take place from this point forward .
28 ‘ I think that it 's very nice music , ’ Erika said .
29 I think that it 's very important for people who smoke not to blame themselves , it is not their fault they smoke .
30 I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country .
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