Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , it may make a very respectable ban& When strong fibres and whiskers are broken , for instance in the Marsh machine , one can realize a high proportion of their theoretical strength . |
| 2 | I 'm beginning to think we must give a very chilly welcome to visitors here . |
| 3 | When at last the consumer does rediscover the spending habit , those survivors should see a very satisfactory margin benefit . |
| 4 | The whole sphere of financial management would play an increasingly important part in farm enterprises and training should provide a very useful aid in making best use of capital . |
| 5 | After all , as we 've noted , Linear B is a development from the earlier script , and so the decipherment of one should provide a very useful clue to the other . |
| 6 | I felt I must keep a very firm hold on myself if I were not to lose control altogether . |
| 7 | Then I suddenly saw that Syl , too , must look a very great fool , for he was twice my age and I was n't beautiful , nor talented , nor in the least degree interesting . |
| 8 | Rachaela thought they must look a very normal family group : Emma the fond grandmother ; Rachaela the mother with her black-haired baby . |
| 9 | To enable waves to break some distance offshore it is necessary that the offshore profile should possess a very gentle gradient . |
| 10 | Asked what are the essential components of a good picture the Irish Times man suggests that it should boast a very powerful and immediate visual impact . |
| 11 | In order for conception to take place , a man must produce a very large number of motile spermatozoa . |
| 12 | often , it takes months of phone calls before you have completed your ‘ hit list ’ , and I would suggest that whoever takes on this job should have a very carefree and optimistic attitude . |
| 13 | Internationally , I think Britain should have a very important role in shaping the new Europe . |
| 14 | An extended booklet should have a very good index or other access system to the information . |
| 15 | In order to provide effective compiler generate code from high level languages it was decided that VAX should have a very regular and consistent treatment of operators , avoid instructions unlikely to be generated by a compiler , include several forms of common operators , and replace common instruction sequences with single instructions . |
| 16 | If you now plot L N T C right , if you plot L N T C you should have a very similar graph to the one that you had before . |
| 17 | Even the rulers of this planet of Stalinvast , luxuriating high up in their hives , must take a very partial view . |
| 18 | The amendment failed , being opposed not just by the Government but surprisingly also by the SDP spokesman , Mr Robert MacLennan , who said that ‘ senior Ministers who have the duty to authorise interception of communications must have a very wide — in many cases , almost unlimited — discretion ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ A Designer in Television must have a very wide general knowledge . |
| 20 | But you must have a very special reason . |
| 21 | ‘ They must have a very good system of communication , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 22 | As I looked round the hut , I knew that the mysterious man must have a very strong character . |
| 23 | ‘ You must have a very inflated opinion of your own worth if you think every woman you meet is after your body . |
| 24 | Paddington decided that Browns must have a very rich friend indeed if he could afford so many presents . |
| 25 | But , Robert , we on earth must have a very small baseline compared with the big distances we 're trying to measure ? |
| 26 | He 's a good jumper and must have a very , very good chance . |
| 27 | To contend under these circumstances that Jesus was a feminist , or that he spoke out for women , must imply a very low estimate of what being a feminist ( or speaking out for women ) might mean . |
| 28 | He should take a very good look at it and , even more important , handle it . |
| 29 | ‘ Anybody who shows good form between now and the end of June must stand a very good chance , and with the Amateur at Portrush it certainly helps people from this province . ’ |
| 30 | In any case , the logic of the government 's case is to say that if you are a person on low income , dependent on council housing , and you happen to live in area like Oxford , which has extremely high land values , then you should pay a very high rent , and they assume that they will pay that high rent and they reduce the grant to the housing fund erm on those lines , with the consequence that the Council had no choice but to put the rents up . |