Example sentences of "[pron] [be] not very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , many of them are not very effective . |
| 2 | But before I start with the heavy stuff , I 'd like to tell you my own theory about grown-ups and their DOs and DON'Ts and why a lot of them are not very good at dealing with children . |
| 3 | Yet the base levels derived from them are not very different from the base levels derived from the study of marine and river terraces . |
| 4 | My father and I are not very close — I 'm not a son who could be sent to sea . " |
| 5 | I am not very sure what 's wrong with her but I can tell by the way they start discussing the weather when I come into the room that it must be Women 's Trouble . |
| 6 | I am not very sure that things are very much better now , but at least the days are longer and we probably wo n't suffer a power cut tonight . |
| 7 | I am not very impressed , ’ said Mrs Mirijana Vuic . |
| 8 | I am not very good with words I am sorry to say , so that is how my imagination allows me to tell you what you mean to me . |
| 9 | ‘ I am not very good at travelling on my own . |
| 10 | I am not very confident about tonights game . |
| 11 | It will be a bit nerve-racking in front of my home crowd and because as I have had to rest my shoulder I am not very fit . |
| 12 | I am not very happy about this . |
| 13 | I am not very wine-wise , you know . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You have to be patient waiting for a donor and I am not very patient . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not very clever at talking , miss , but I want to thank you . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 'm not very clever at coping with unpleasantness — not even from my own relatives , ’ she said , thinking of her aunt . |
| 17 | to do an E C G on this man , well I had n't done one for quite a while and I 'd forgot really , not forgot what to do but I 'm not very familiar with the E C G machines because it 's a new electronic machine and its |
| 18 | But I love playing comedy and then I 'm not very tall . |
| 19 | Well I 'm not very tall and my legs are n't very long and I could get my first leg over but it was getting that other one over with the hurdle , without leaving your boots behind , that was , that was hard . |
| 20 | I 'm not very critical of his because I still feel , well , he 's my dad , but he 's critical of mine . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm not very domesticated . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm not very warm . |
| 23 | If I 'm not very much mistaken , they would be for packing up the Presley hoard in . ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes I 'm not very impressed by the scene . |
| 25 | Mr Peter Preston , editor of the Guardian , yesterday said : ‘ This has been a long time coming and there are things in it like the enhanced role for proprietors that I 'm not very keen on , ’ he said . |
| 26 | I 'm not very keen on the shape , and the face seems to be a bit dead . |
| 27 | Now I 'm not too sure whether interest rates , I 'm not very keen on tying interest rates , you see I think we 're going up again , perhaps within the next eighteen months , so one way round is to use another type of investment , and you could use an offshore erm fund , er building society stroke investment fund , er which would actually give you a better rate . |
| 28 | I 'm not very keen on them . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not very keen on pet shops . |
| 30 | I 'm not very keen on marmalade . |