Example sentences of "very [adj] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singh 's silence prompted Indian newspapers , which had tended to be very supportive of the Prime Minister , to publish some highly critical articles . |
| 2 | She had been there before and was very tolerant of the young man plying her with questions . |
| 3 | But it is equally clear that direct , participatory democracy is , if not impossible , at least not very practicable in the modern world , and is in any case a recipe for bad government : " a community in mass is ill adapted for the business of Government … all numerous assemblies are essentially incapable of business . " |
| 4 | This squeezing in of lymphocytes and blood vessels is itself very destructive to the normal architecture of the tissues , and in rheumatoid arthritis even erodes the bone until the joint is completely destroyed , causing crippling deformities . |
| 5 | He says they 're very low in the chemical content and if you 're going to get anything out of it it 's going to be in your mind more than anything else . |
| 6 | In the Guide and Small Prints , ( 1814 ) , he is very specific about the exact spot from which a particular scene should be drawn . |
| 7 | Well I would say er about ten year ago , cos I was stevedoring then stevedore and erm I used to go up there , and I was very friendly with the old skipper there . |
| 8 | He was very untypical of the modern world who dislike the modern world and make their dislike of the modern world perfectly evident of other people |
| 9 | ‘ She is very upset about the whole thing . ’ |
| 10 | A spokesman for the fan club said : ‘ His followers will be very upset by the attempted destruction of the tree . |
| 11 | The smell of waterproofs and leather was very strong in the confined space of the cloakroom , and it gave an unreal quality to everything . |
| 12 | We are very grateful to the British Council for arranging these visits , and to all those who so willingly gave of their time to talk to and entertain us . |
| 13 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that an enormous number of people in Herefordshire are very grateful for the spectacular increase in knee and hip replacements that has taken place in that health authority 's area during the past 10 years ? |
| 14 | The night air amplified the snort and splash of animals and I was very grateful for the orange glow of the fire through the canvas walls of the tent . |
| 15 | It is very pleasant on the other side of the ridge . |
| 16 | 1967 was the year that the Isle of Man Railway reopened and I was feeling very emotional about the whole affair , with good reason , as the idea of the Isle of Man without a railway was quite unthinkable . |
| 17 | John became ‘ rather cool and offhand ’ now that he was master of the situation , ‘ bringing all my charms into action , but making it seem that I was very blasé about the whole thing . ’ |
| 18 | He came across in the media as being very different to the classic TV executive , relaxed and friendly and sporting a social conscience through his prison reform work . |
| 19 | The solidarity of ‘ community ’ at this level was very different to the unavoidable communality of the village poor . |
| 20 | Many fishkeepers feed their fish just once a day , but this is very different to the ideal situation . |
| 21 | The situation was very different on the northern frontier . |
| 22 | Monsoons clearly depend on the distribution of land and sea in the tropics ; this was certainly very different during the mid-Cretaceous period considered by Hoffert and Covey . |
| 23 | In this chapter , we will review a whole range of factors which affect family life and which produce a diversity of family forms often very different from the cereal-packet norm that we have described . |
| 24 | But the twelfth-century tournament was very different from the formalized jousting of the later Middle Ages which film-makers have made so familiar to us . |
| 25 | It must be remembered that bicycles in Father 's day were very different from the modern machine ; no free wheel , for instance . |
| 26 | I have taken understanding how if the County Council do n't have any view on the level of conversions in the future and as I think Mr said also this will extend to small sites and green field developments , how they assess the environmental impact of their figure or indeed anybody 's figure , because clearly the environmental impact of conversions is very different from the environmental impact of either recycled urban land or green field development . |
| 27 | erm another area of my work is as I er writing workshops , the writing workshops are very different from the normal writing workshops there based at galleries and they take groups of people round an exhibition recording their comments on either one particular picture or the exhibition as a whole and then with my help we put the comments into poems that are then displayed along side the exhibits , erm this work I do with erm all sorts of people with children people with special needs , disabled people and , and that 's really where my interest in art erm comes in and I find that its a great leveller for people who would like to express themselves and have perhaps have difficulty by aiding , by looking at paintings and being able to see perhaps emotions or images that they , they feel themselves , so in all areas erm I find painting in my areas of work , painting influences me and has done for as , as long as I can remember . |
| 28 | Cases such as Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 and Reg. v. Mason ( Carl ) [ 1988 ] 1 W.L.R. 139 are very different from the present case or the blackmail example . |
| 29 | Wet-rice agriculture stimulates economic and social conditions very different from the dry land agriculture of , for example , Europe . |
| 30 | The qualities of initiative , responsibility and loyalty which they demanded from the soldier were very different from the passive obedience and mechanical discipline typified by the army of Frederick II ( which , significantly , found it difficult to create units of this kind ) . |