Example sentences of "[be] not [vb pp] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You can see from the map how the frontiers between them here in the south are not made very good . |
| 2 | Clearly an attempt has been made to select key groups , but they are not used very effectively to date major sequences and odd conclusions were drawn , which were to have far reaching effects . |
| 3 | When recall is delayed by 30 seconds , they are not remembered very easily as short-term memory has had sufficient chance to decay as short-term memory seems to decay after twenty or so seconds . |
| 4 | Julie and Elizabeth 's relatives have been over to South Africa and were not treated very well at all by the police . |
| 5 | The idealism of this approach is obvious , and it is not pursued very far . |
| 6 | Because this is not used very often it may be stuck in the closed position over an empty cistern if the contents have evaporated . |
| 7 | We er teeter on the edge of er a crisis virtually at the end of every day and if action is , and strong action is not taken very very quickly , er we have no doubt whatsoever , that the already serious level of , of er incidents within the prison system will escalate totally out of control . |
| 8 | Claudia , the problem is that one Masai , cruel as this may sound , is not considered very important . |
| 9 | Er George , the my clients instruction is not phrased very legally , but it 's , let's go for it , so we would sir like to pursue the issue of er our contention is that the outer er northern r route as shown in the structure plan key diagram as it is at present does not meet the need for traffic relief of the A fifty nine A sixty one corridor . |
| 10 | It 's not used very often , actually , it 's only used for security purposes really . |
| 11 | I think that er , there 's a problem , first of all you 've identified that women experience er , depression and I think that 's not taken very seriously by policy makers and people in power , na namely men . |
| 12 | He had the casting vote , as chairmen do , and he voted to say that he thought opting out would be good for Banbury School , but of course he was the chairman of the parents group that was trying to opt out , so that was not greeted very well amongst some of us , I think . |
| 13 | Probably it was not used very much and probably they could climb through the window and be inside without anyone even realising . |
| 14 | The location of the flight , up the steep hillside , had indeed been suggested by James Barnes in 1902 , but the idea was not taken very seriously and forgotten altogether as the Telford plan developed . |
| 15 | School was not taken very seriously . |
| 16 | But this technique was not considered very reliable , nor could it provide other important data on the population , such as its sex distribution . |
| 17 | Boredom featured strongly in their account and even the local youth club , which they went to frequently , was not valued very highly . |