Example sentences of "very [adj] of [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've become very fond of Ellis and I 'm prepared on occasion to be tempted into his latest hare-brained scheme , but I 'm buggered if I 'll carry on like Richard Hannay and his chums in a John Buchan novel . |
| 2 | And I 'm afraid I do shop at Sainsburys , I 'm very fond of Sainsburys and I always find them very good and very obliging and very fair and all the rest of that . |
| 3 | ‘ Edith 's very fond of food and she 's a bit wacky . |
| 4 | Western agencies are very envious of Mossad because it relies not on huge arrays of computerised technology but on a small group of efficient and dedicated men and women who are not bothered by any form of morality so long as Israel benefits . |
| 5 | It often leaves her wheezing , very short of breath and it can be so dangerous that she needs drugs to control it and treatment in hospital . |
| 6 | However , the Australian economy is still weak ; museums are very short of funds and there are few buyers for works over A$ 50,000 . |
| 7 | but I do n't see the real relevance and I think one of the reasons that erm I mean I , I hear it and I know that Freud was very critical of religion and I , I , I think for some very good reasons , |
| 8 | They 're going to work in leisure industries , in caring services , in education , all those things that go with what we think as a good life , and indeed , coming back to the third world , that 's the very kind of thing that we need in African villages and India — agriculturalists , erm teachers , health workers and so on . |
| 9 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 10 | When looking to recruit specialist practitioners be very wary of claims that they will have a large client following that they can bring with them . |