Example sentences of "extremely [adj] [verb] and " in BNC.

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1 As Jim Kantelis , an OUS representative on the team , says : ‘ Members of the group were extremely strong willed and independent types and that made for some very healthy debate . ’
2 Extremely easy to grow and propagate .
3 There is also a ‘ second generation ’ of plastic cladding materials which have none of these drawbacks and which are also extremely easy to handle and install .
4 Linked by an excellent motorway and railway network Grimsby is extremely easy to find and The National Fishing Heritage Centre is conveniently located near the centre of the town .
5 well , well thank Mr very much , if you , if you could , I can accommodate Mr at any reasonable time tomorrow , erm , but although he may say he 's only got , he only wants to rest for a quarter of an hour d'your , as you gather from the interchange from the bench , that 's er , that will be the very minimum and I may well have questions to ask him , although I hope I 'd asked most of them to Mr , so , erm , but I 'm , I 'm I think for everybody 's convenience it , erm , unless he 's got a specific time he could deal with , we either start say at eleven thirty , when Mr can be here or at two , erm , but if he 's got some other clever idea I 'm perfectly prepared to entertain him , but er we ca n't leave this hanging around , I 've got ta write this and whichever way it goes we 've got ta look at it again , er and although I suppose I 'm not entirely unheard of and I disappear to the court of appeal next term it 's gon na make things extremely awkward to try and arrange anything else next term , cos I 've got two other judges to bear in mind as well as myself
6 He clearly saw that the extended nature of Rommel 's supply lines made them extremely vulnerable to attack and that destruction of port facilities would severely limit his ability to wage war .
7 Nitrite is also extremely poisonous to fish and hence the reason it is very important to check the pond water for the presence of either of these toxins .
8 Does the Secretary of State agree that trade and industry in the north-east need good communications and that the existence of direct rail links to the channel tunnel and a much better A1 between the north-east and Scotland are extremely important to trade and industry ?
9 Such a pond would be extremely difficult to filter and the reason why your fish did well in it was undoubtably down to low stocking levels and a balanced plant population .
10 The system is , however , extremely difficult to negotiate and even the most competent citizen would find the task of tracking down his or her welfare benefit entitlements a daunting one .
11 It is extremely difficult to tame and its shyness , combined with its great ferocity when cornered , suggests that it would have been troublesome for early man to domesticate .
12 This would require a huge corpus , would be extremely difficult to estimate and would require too much storage .
13 Indeed the two values are often extremely difficult to disentangle and there is a good reason for this ; for any given adjective , in many or most actual situations where the one interpretation may be applied correctly , the other will apply also ; in addition , for many adjectives , even in principle , the semantic distinction may be vanishingly small .
14 Evidence on this subject is extremely difficult to gather and interpret .
15 Unfortunately , the subjects found these estimates extremely difficult to make and the differences between subjects ’ estimates was enormous .
16 Once driven home , these savage spines are extremely difficult to dislodge and may continue to torment the would-be killer for days to come , sometimes leading to festering wounds that can kill .
17 The maddening thing is that once it is realized that the environment is a mutually reactive system , it becomes extremely difficult to isolate and discuss specialized points in a simple way without at the same time being tempted to discuss every interaction and interrelationship which exists in the system .
18 But in practice , the growth rate in earnings is extremely difficult to determine and has to be forecast .
19 However you look at it , horses are extremely expensive to keep and even the initial outlay of buying the animal pales into insignificance when you start to add up feed , shoeing and vets ' bills , insurance , tack , transport and livery or rent if you do n't own your own facilities — the list seems endless .
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