Example sentences of "very [adj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the base levels derived from them are not very different from the base levels derived from the study of marine and river terraces . |
| 2 | And how very different from the home lives of our own dear dykes , as recently exemplified by the fifteen women whose tape-recorded , edited life stories form Inventing Ourselves . |
| 3 | Even cereal Castile was not uniform : the proprietors of Salamanca or Valladolid were independent men of substance , very different from the subsistence farmers of Avila . |
| 4 | These final accounts , of course , look very different from the cash accounts of defence spending . |
| 5 | It will be seen in Chapter 3 that this is very different from the distribution patterns of corrosion produced by digestion . |
| 6 | His voice sounded very different inside the tunnel walls . |
| 7 | When Dr A B Granville published his famous and best-selling guidebook , The Spas of England in 1841 , he made very clear in the opening chapters of his mammoth work his distaste for what he regarded as ‘ the lower orders of society ’ . |
| 8 | This is very similar to the probit findings . |
| 9 | LMS was viewed as being very similar to the pilot schemes , although the heads ' opinions tended to be related to how kind they expected the formula to be to their situation . |
| 10 | It is lightly built and agile , with light hindquarters , heavier shoulders and long horns curving up — in fact it is very similar to the fighting bulls of Spain and Portugal , and just as alert and aggressive , but much lighter in build , with the bulls weighing only 400–475kg and the cows 325–350kg , and standing about 130cm at the withers . |
| 11 | The use of a written procedure was pioneered in the House of Lords where each party has for some years been required to lodge a ‘ Case ’ with the court which is very similar to the skeleton arguments more recently introduced in the Court of Appeal . |
| 12 | So er and they 're very bullish I have to say , very bullish about the way things are going . |
| 13 | Damage was also very great in the mustelid samples , but in the one good sample from the pine marten the bones were less modified than in the canid samples , and it is not known at present which pattern is more typical of mustelids . |
| 14 | The latter process does not seem to have been very effective in the submarine fans and therefore the porosities are generally lower than those observed in the grainstones of the Hauptdolomit . |
| 15 | The MEP , who rode on a motorcycle on an open road for the first time on Saturday , said he was very impressed by the way bikers had organised themselves into a Europe-wide movement . |
| 16 | The path , here still a thousand feet below the top , becomes very rough as the gradient increases , the final scramble through a breach in the summit cliffs over the debris of erosion being sufficiently arduous to justify a prolonged rest when the flat top is at last reached . |
| 17 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 18 | This exercise is very good for the abdomen muscles and helps to flatten a flabby stomach . |
| 19 | ( These intra-day revisions to the cash position are very important to the discount houses and close observers of the Bank of England 's operations and are discussed later in this chapter . ) |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | I was very happy about the way things went although extremely apprehensive before the Conference took place since we had so many jigsaw pieces to slot in . |
| 22 | Elizabeth Reynolds explains : ‘ They were offenders , on the verge of being accommodated and displaying promiscuous behaviour so we were very concerned about the health risks . ’ |
| 23 | We were involved in the redecoration of the schools , many of them very dingy after the war years , and also in the establishment of the new Colleges of Education and Teachers ' Centres . |
| 24 | The Necromundan neophytes became very familiar with the operating altars and biomonitoring and chemical assay machines of the Apothacarion — with the mantis-like laser scalpels , the stasis tureens cradling the precious new organs , the examinator device towering like a brass-banded armadillo , its tapering snout scanning the innards of the body , and with the soporificator instrument resembling some giant spider that stung metacurare into the nerves ; to which the drone of surgical incantations from the adepts , whose robes were embroidered with arabesque prophylactic hexes and purity emblems , was a macabre lullaby . |
| 25 | Young children , not being very familiar with the way words are spelled , often write accurate versions of what they hear which do n't match with the conventions of English spelling . |
| 26 | But erm we went into half time , and we were very pleased with the way things had gone , and it was just a case of trying to keep it going erm we stopped them from playing erm and then we came off the second half and everything just seemed to go wrong for us . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They are very abundant on the desert surfaces of the American south-west , but are presumably rare localised in deep sea deposits . |
| 29 | Brecchias are very common among the rock samples . |
| 30 | Their flankers , Morgan and Williams , also made life very difficult for the Army half-backs . |