Example sentences of "[adj] and very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Quite near were some very old and very decrepit buildings occupied by Talbots , Wholesale Chemists and Druggists . |
| 32 | It was very old and very dirty due to the dust and sand on the road . |
| 33 | Lavender Cottage is 400 years old and very picturesque . |
| 34 | Reg Finch , another swift promotion , forty years old and very decisive , had taken-over Dalby 's old sector in the Mediterranean covering France , Spain , Italy , Turkey and Switzerland . |
| 35 | Managers do not want to start factories , shops , or entertainments in the rural areas because there are few workers there and the old and very young have little money to spend . |
| 36 | A forest of almost 20 000 of these miniature , old and very expensive trees enter the European Community each year . |
| 37 | For the first time , she looked old and very serious . |
| 38 | Only 4 miles from Blore is the old and very pretty market town of Ashbourne which boasts a cobbled square and magnificent 14th-century church . |
| 39 | ‘ Why did our large country , our wise and old and very large country , begin to think so small that we became a nation of losers , a country of discount shopkeepers content to bask in the glory of our heritage . ’ |
| 40 | Buster bought a very old and very large American motor car — I believe the price was £10 and , being probably one of the poorest of apprentices at the time , I had a 10 share in this syndicate . |
| 41 | She was about thirty years old and very beautiful . |
| 42 | The number of old and very old people in Scottish psychiatric hospitals accounts for much of the difference in bed numbers on the two sides of the border and reflects the poor provision of local authority run places for elderly confused people in Scotland . |
| 43 | ‘ I tried to produce something that was very beautiful , very generous and very warm ; that showed the family life I have with my wife , ’ says Koons , a little hurt . |
| 44 | In short , Dillie is witty , versatile , highly entertaining and very funny . |
| 45 | She is a brave woman … a brave and very charming woman . ’ |
| 46 | Above all , Marianella will be remembered as a very brave and very determined woman . |
| 47 | The intensional pattern corresponding to ( 44 ) is that of ( 47 ) , where once more the property instantiated by the adjective is underlined : ( 47 ) The mapping of the intensional pattern onto the surface syntax of English is again very direct and very natural , being reflected solely in the order of the instantiating elements , with again adjectival form as an overt marker that the second property is applied to the initial E. What ( 47 ) suggests , however , is that the similarity of construction is not between postverbal and predicate qualifier , which has the intensional structure given in ( 48 ) , but rather between postverbal and adverbal , the intensional structure for which is repeated here as ( 49 ) : ( 48 ) ( 49 ) From the point of view of the adjectival property , ( 47 ) and ( 49 ) are essentially the same ; the adjectival property syntactically qualifies another property word , while it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase in immediate construction with the property expression of which the adjective forms part . |
| 48 | One of the men had a key and she was moved from the car into an empty , damp and very cold house . ’ |
| 49 | Pale Elizabeth came in , imperious and dressed in a satin dress , high-waisted and very decolleté , with Henry Clerval at her side . |
| 50 | About 20 miles out , on a deserted and very quiet country road , there was this mighty explosion and we all dived for cover . |
| 51 | It is anti-static stain-resistant and very hardwearing . |
| 52 | And how very understated and very British , with every man of its crew trying not to show how pleased he was or how embarrassed , and quietly thanking the good Lord for getting them out of the mess in the Bay , and if He would n't mind , could some other perishing submarine have the next thirty-eight ? |
| 53 | The prospect of an integrated consultancy business , able to provide a wide range of management and engineering services , is very exciting and very relevant to the changing construction procurement methods of the nineties . |
| 54 | Where many teams would be content to boot the ball deep and far , the Boks have shown that they do n't mind taking a risk or three at the highest level — very exciting and very dangerous . |
| 55 | erm Bicester ran out winners in the end by two one , but what a game , particularly in the second half which was very exciting and very hectic with the visitors trying hard to get that equaliser ; Bicester Town two , Kintbury Rangers one . |
| 56 | The new Captain 's Carvery room is proving popular and very good value . |
| 57 | I was particularly impressed with Mountain Ash when they beat us — they were having a bad run but they remained motivated , very organised and very competitive . |
| 58 | We were cold and wet and very tired . |
| 59 | It 's May Day of course , and for many the celebrations meant a very early , very wet and very cold start . |
| 60 | ‘ Careful and very clever , Inspector . |