Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] very [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was hard for me to leave Spain , where I was very well known and settle in Palm Springs , California , ’ says Jose Higueras , a former Davis Cup player for Spain from 1974 to 1980 . |
| 2 | More importantly , I can see that I am very effectively disposing of all the apparent or alleged similarities between Daniel Miller and myself . |
| 3 | Francis Bacon : I know that I was very much influenced by Picasso , especially when I was young , but now you 're so flooded with illustrations of everything , that you hardly know in the end what you 're principally influenced by . |
| 4 | Yeah he said , but the girl that was with him said that you were very highly honoured to have a letter that length cos usually she gets dear oh I her name 's what her but dear whoever , got loads to tell you , love Mario . |
| 5 | In my own studies of theatre audiences and of book reading habits in the United Kingdom I found , when I began , that there was very little published at all on who goes to the theatre and , while there was more information available on adult reading habits , much of it had its source in America and much of what was available in Britain referred to borrowing from libraries but excluded book buying . |
| 6 | Whatever their character , there is one curious feature shared by most private press books , which is that they are very rarely read — a fact testified to by the fact that an extraordinary number are found unopened , as though their charm and beauty may not be defiled even by the gentlest slitting of the sacred sections at the top and fore-edges . |
| 7 | To stay alive as a teacher , it is necessary to be aware of the variety of perspectives and the fact that they are very deep rooted . |
| 8 | Obviously , when there is some snow on the hills in the summer you ca n't do much , so they are very carefully made and some of them are connected to a computer , so if you have a very good coach with you he can say ‘ You 're going that right , no do it a bit more like this , or a bit more like that ’ . |
| 9 | It 's it 's very it 's all done very professionally in that it 's very well controlled . |
| 10 | Binoculars show that it is very highly coloured ; telescopically I have described it as an orange blob , quite unlike a normal star . |
| 11 | The essential difference , therefore , between this course and more conventional university courses is that it is very explicitly geared to the needs of industry , and students spend one year on industrial placement . |
| 12 | But anyone who knows anything about it understands that it is very far removed from being an ‘ interchangeable with Labour ’ vote . |
| 13 | However , from the teacher 's comments it was clear that it was very much intended . |
| 14 | The Portuguese Da Silva had a permanent affliction in that he was very slightly hunchbacked . |
| 15 | It also began to occur to her that he was very well dressed for a pickpocket — but no doubt the streets of central London provided rich pickings . |
| 16 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 17 | He looked to the United Nations to devise a system of trusteeship which ( so it was very carefully phrased ) " would make effective the right of colonial peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live as soon as in the opinion of the UN they are qualified for independence " . |
| 18 | Selina and I are very well suited . |
| 19 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 20 | This was exciting and I was very soon trying crystals of all sorts of substances taken from the shelves of my own and my colleagues ' laboratories . |
| 21 | And I was very much blamed . ’ |
| 22 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 23 | Fortunately the police did not prosecute and she was very successfully treated with medication . |
| 24 | As said , all the District Councillors are opposed to it , I 'm opposed to it , and there 's very clear cut Highways Authority reasons for refusing , but in spite of that District Council seems to be going out of its way to bend over backwards and , and help the , the applicants for some reason or another , presumably to get this thing through . |
| 25 | and they 're very well done . |
| 26 | Wimbledon from the premiership were running out to do battle and they were very nearly beaten at their own game … |
| 27 | That 's what Oxford thought and they were very nearly punished , as the Geordies hit back with 2 goals in 4 minutes . |
| 28 | Surely these are two major facets of the Royal Canoe Club 's 125 years of existence and they were very well expressed on this occasion . |
| 29 | The family connection between Harry and his daughter was sufficiently diffused not to matter and they were very well matched . |
| 30 | Well , er we 're very lucky that er Oxford 's pretty well covered , yes , we 've , or could do with some more volunteers of course , but we 've got about one hundred and twenty people who 'll be going out in the city , and I was looking at a map this morning and it 's very well covered indeed with purple and yellow lines where we 've actually got people on the ground . |