Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] very [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Journal has not got very far in finding out where the applications are expected to come from — or how the thing will be marketed . |
| 2 | Mahat et al. also show that the area of forested land has not changed very much since 1950 , although forest quality has declined as grazing pressure has increased . |
| 3 | But the basic situation has not changed very much in twenty years . |
| 4 | DET expenditure on black education has certainly risen very significantly during the 1980s , with per capita expenditure for all educational levels rising from 176 rand per pupil ( 1988 rand ) in 1980/81 to 595 rand in 1987/88 , though much of this increase had been taken up by the rising bill for teachers ' salaries . |
| 5 | He had not got very far with Pilger 's list . |
| 6 | In the 1680s the navy had not succeeded very well in its primary purpose of preventing invasions . |
| 7 | In March 1988 considerable consternation was created , not least among teachers who had generally responded very positively to the TGAT report , by the leak of a letter about the report from the Prime Minister 's secretary to Kenneth Baker 's secretary . |
| 8 | I 've always thought very highly of Michael Jaffé , until recently Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum , and I 've had quite a lot of pleasant conversations with him . |
| 9 | The association had also identified very clearly in its submissions to the Labour Court that , whereas its long term aspirations were encapsulated in the original claim , the immediate requirement for our Bank Assistant members is for a real and reasonable increase in pay to meet the urgent needs of today . |
| 10 | With the bishops also back in the House of Lords , the political tide had now turned very markedly against the Puritans . |
| 11 | First , a lot of these lads had n't done very well at school , so the training provides them with a better chance of a fresh start once they have paid off their debt to society . |
| 12 | Labour mobility policies have not featured very prominently in this country . |
| 13 | The idea was to move away from an elitist and centralist view of things , yet it was to be a long time before such changes were implemented in the Government 's media , and it might well be argued that they have not progressed very far to this day . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ The problem this season has been that many of the sites have not fished very well at all . |
| 15 | Johnston said : ‘ Things have not gone very well for me at Everton and I spoke to the gaffer recently about it . |
| 16 | Also I have always felt very strongly against the cutting down of trees , and as a teenager in Holland , I started a campaign against the destruction of woodlands for a motorway . ’ |
| 17 | Requests received under the British Library Document Supply Centre 's back-up scheme have again dropped very significantly to 792 , less than half of last year 's requests . |