Example sentences of "[be] not very [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not surprisingly , such pains are not very susceptible to the action of conventional analgesics , including opiates . |
| 2 | And she warned : ‘ If Sarah does lose the children , she is prepared to tell stories that are not very pleasant about the Crown . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The individual products are not very profitable by the standards of a Hoechst but represent a good market for a small company . ’ |
| 4 | Butcher-block and wood counter tops are sturdy and look good but they are not very practical near the sink surrounds or anywhere where there is water because they can warp and the grain can rise up . |
| 5 | These somewhat academic findings are not very helpful to the mother whose child has begged her to let him watch a gangster film or to buy him a plastic ‘ death-ray gun ’ for Christmas . |
| 6 | Yet the base levels derived from them are not very different from the base levels derived from the study of marine and river terraces . |
| 7 | What data there is on campus based units and special treatment units suggests these are not very different from the large hospitals they were intended to replace . |
| 8 | Humans are not very sensitive to the acidity or alkalinity of liquids , but they are perfectly capable of deciding whether a piece of red paper has turned blue , or vice versa . |
| 9 | It is clear in talking to Walter , as he nears the end of his career , that while he has greatly enjoyed his job working with students , he is saddened by the fact that prospects for young people are not very promising at the present time . |
| 10 | Partial offers are not very common in the UK because where the offer is for 30 per cent or more of the voting rights it can only succeed if shareholders holding over 50 per cent of the voting rights of the target company ( excluding those held by the offeror and its concert parties ) vote in favour of the offer ( Rule 36.5 ) . |
| 11 | Even failures to replicate are not very interesting to the journals ; experiments with negative results therefore rarely get reported . |
| 12 | Alfieri 's care and compassion are not very obvious to the reader from what he says , barring his final speech , but there is a very tangible kindness in his behaviour . |
| 13 | Pistachios are not very popular in the UK , but it is possible , if you have the right contacts , to buy shelled pistachios . |
| 14 | ‘ We both know the gentleman concerned and we 're not very happy about the way things are going so we 're making a few enquiries of our own . ’ |
| 15 | Sometimes I 'm not very impressed by the scene . |
| 16 | I 'm not very keen on the shape , and the face seems to be a bit dead . |
| 17 | to do an E C G on this man , well I had n't done one for quite a while and I 'd forgot really , not forgot what to do but I 'm not very familiar with the E C G machines because it 's a new electronic machine and its |
| 18 | Ay , I 'm not very good at the old styling lark , I 'll say . |
| 19 | Well I 'm not very good at the ages like I mean she could be older |
| 20 | Actually I 'm not very fond of the school piano it 's |
| 21 | Cos I 'm not very hungry at the moment . |
| 22 | Tons of people have said to me , ‘ Oh , it 's nice to have a rounded body ’ , but personally I 'm not very happy with the body I 've got . |
| 23 | Well erm you know , I 've , I 'm not very happy with the situation , but erm , it is entirely up to you as a committee you know , what you think . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not very happy about the way I performed . |
| 25 | The next thing I 'm not very happy about the supply of printed bags coming in from er the workshop . |
| 26 | Trouble is now , cos I know a hairdresser the shop , if I go somewhere else , it looks a bit you know and yet I 'm not very satisfied with the way he cuts it , he 's done it cheap . |
| 27 | We were not very wide across the shoulder at that time of day . ’ |
| 28 | They were not very good at the , he had forgotten all the best bits . |
| 29 | If audio-visual items could be included in the very simple card catalogue systems previously devised for school libraries , they felt that the retrieval argument was over : a very comfortable conclusion for those who did not In any case understand indexing principles very thoroughly , were not very interested in the activity and valued most of all their own face-to-face contact with the clientele , making up in personal ( and psychologically boosting ) service for the shortcomings of their own indexes . |
| 30 | This is not very far from the belief that pleasure and happiness amount to the same thing — a belief with deep flaws , as we saw in an earlier chapter . |