Example sentences of "[art] very [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using factor analysis of data for twenty-one liberal democracies ( with two data sets for France , representing the Fourth and Fifth Republics ) , Lijphart identified three groups on each dimension , giving nine in all : there was at least one liberal democracy in each of the cells ( figure 3.7 ) , indicating the very substantial differences between countries in their detailed operation of this basic political system . |
| 2 | The very substantial increase under the heading of Public Relations is more apparent than real . |
| 3 | ‘ The NHS has had the lion 's share of the very substantial increases in public spending over the last few years , and this has resulted in higher standards of care and treatment , ’ he writes . |
| 4 | This means that the very substantial facilities of RAE for testing and examining materials are available whenever AIB need them . |
| 5 | It is obvious how important this is , because the relevance of the very substantial database of information represented by the SUC ( records of well over 2 million works are currently held ) could be seriously eroded if automation leads to a progressive decline in notifications . |
| 6 | This has the advantage of being manageable , but it ignores the very substantial redistribution between generations . |
| 7 | I trust all parties in this house will unite , not only in believing in local government but in agreeing that local government should set and maintain the highest possible standards of conduct when spending the very substantial sums of money parliament votes to it . |
| 8 | When it is worked hard it has the very nasty habit of blowing the engine oil filler cap/breather off . |
| 9 | Among those present were the Earl of Shaftesbury , Caroline Lady Hobart , Mr and Mrs Michael Sayers , Mrs Benjamin Bonas , and Mrs Juan Quimson the very elegant widow of the former Philippines Ambassador . |
| 10 | There 's a wealth of things to do here , from visiting the fortress or the water gardens at Hellbrunn , to wandering around the museums or the very elegant shops in the old town . |
| 11 | What was necessary was instead to become a reformer of the very inner basis of society . |
| 12 | Even if we can not get at ‘ the truth itself ’ and ‘ be admitted into the very inner shrines of nature ’ , we can at least ‘ glimpse … some slight image of it ’ , and ‘ live among certain of the outer altars ’ . |
| 13 | As a Jew , he would never penetrate the very inner circles of the City-but , also as a Jew , he knew more European bankers and understood their ways better than any other London bank of his size . |
| 14 | The astonishing speed with which the two brother radicals developed their Pantisocratic scheme was testimony not only to the transforming effect they had on one another , but to the very weak foundations upon which the whole enterprise rested . |
| 15 | A peculiarity of human beings is the very weak degree to which we are endowed with " natural " discriminating powers of this sort . |
| 16 | The open way in which Richard Armstrong introduces passages of this kind is matched by the very explicit tone in which his message is spelled out . |
| 17 | The draftsmen of the Supply of Goods and Services Act elected not to attempt to define " service " , probably in deference to the very wide variety of services offered both to consumers and to businesses . |
| 18 | In the same × 7 field it is easy to find the very wide pair of Theta¹ ; ( 4.3 ) and Theta² ; ( 4.7 ) , which are not genuinely associated ; as noted earlier , the dimmer component is much the more distant of the two . |
| 19 | If the very wide construction of clause 12 were right , questions of public policy might well arise . |
| 20 | The very wide differences between the results achieved by different randomization techniques are shown in Table 6.2 and Fig. 6.7 . |
| 21 | This requires a broad curriculum with a rich choice of learning opportunities designed to suit the very wide range of individual needs . |
| 22 | But , in those terms , taking the very wide range of social systems which were studied by the first generation of British social anthropologists as a model ( the list includes the Trobrianders , the Tikopia , the Bemba , the Tswana , the Azande , the Nuer , the Nupe , and the Tallensi among others ) , is it possible to formulate a useful stereotype of what this notional entity " a primitive society " or " a savage ( wild ) society " is like ? |
| 23 | The text is built round real practical examples which demonstrate the very wide range of possibilities that action research can offer to teachers . |
| 24 | The very wide range of scales present in a turbulent flow ( Sections 20.3 , 21.3 ) produces particular problems for numerical modelling . |
| 25 | It 's important to stress the relationship with Social Services , in that the Agency staff who link the very wide range of people from Social Services , often those people who hold local budgets and are in a position , using the funding that we have allocated to diverse things , to come up with creative solutions for , for er , keeping people at home rather than in , in institutional care . |
| 26 | To judge from the very wide circulation of the decisions on these details , in contrast to the almost total lack of circulation of the earlier decrees , this concentration of effort was the right policy ; but it took at least another two generations before the aim , which Anselm in 1102 had been confident could quickly be reached , was achieved . |
| 27 | Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that |
| 28 | No one thing is outstanding , and in that way the cathedral compares somewhat unfavourably with other Milanese churches , the very specific treasures of , say , San Maurizio church do not detract from the sheer majesty of the cathedral . |
| 29 | While patronage may have damaged Duck 's talent , ‘ The Thresher 's Labour ’ demonstrated that the experience of labour itself could be the basis of poetry which appealed beyond the very specific concerns of most contemporary occupational verse . |
| 30 | Bourdieu 's second criticism of Lévi-Strauss is that he misses the very specific nature of the exercise of power in traditional societies . |