Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] be very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that 's the training cycle and we believe that if you follow that approach to training , then it will help you to be very effective and successful . |
| 2 | ‘ I plan to be around over the next few weeks while we get this new image launched , and we expect you to be very visible . |
| 3 | BM forces you to stop relying on vague notions about the problem and requires you to be very specific . |
| 4 | ‘ So I want you to be very brave while you listen to it . |
| 5 | Allied to this advice , I would counsel you to be very careful if you are using figures from real life in your story . |
| 6 | When she wrote home , as she now did regularly , she wrote believing herself to be very contented . |
| 7 | Cradling the worn , sad woman , Melanie felt herself to be very strong , young and vital and tough . |
| 8 | One line in the song seems to me to be very revealing : when you say you want to see her killed ‘ because people like you/make me feel so tired … so old inside . ’ |
| 9 | One of the beefs I have about accommodation for elderly people is the fact that by , that the purpose built , very excellent , bungalows and flats for elderly citizens are restricted to one bedroom which , to which but is by government decree to keep the cost down , but it does seem to me to be very heartless because elderly people 's children are unable to come and stay with them except to the great deal of discomfort and perhaps as society grows a little more considerate for the fact that the percentage of elderly people will get even greater as the years go on , then they should make allowance and provide them for the facilities to enable them to be visited by their children and grandchildren . |
| 10 | Certainly the minimum of one-and-a-half days per month envisaged by the Home Office as being all that will be required , it seems to me to be very wide of the mark . |
| 11 | Its ancestor , Legacy , seemed to me to be very slow and cumbersome , whereas this incarnation lacks nothing in the speed department . |
| 12 | One event that seems to me to be very important is Vatican Two . |
| 13 | Cornelius rummaged through the contents of the boot and found them to be very oily indeed . |
| 14 | The French students commented on the relaxed and friendly atmosphere in the college and were envious of what seemed to them to be very small classes . |
| 15 | The numbers of teeth involved are often quite small , and where there is a major discrepancy between the digestion of the upper and lower teeth in columns 9 and 10 of Table 3.13 , reference to the actual numbers involved show them to be very small indeed , sometimes no more than one ( columns 7 and 8 ) . |
| 16 | But beware , this tameness leads them to be very bold in defence of their nest , and they will laugh a strident ‘ heh , heh , heh ’ as they clip you across the ear with a stiffly held wing-tip ! |
| 17 | When we started rehearsing , I found him to be very friendly and lots of fun , like a younger brother or son . ’ |
| 18 | And Preston very dubious , because she did n't look like she had a baby in her tummy and experience had taught him to be very sceptical about any information his family gave out , especially on the subject of babies and where they came from . |
| 19 | The panel members appeared to him to be very patient , very fair , and very thorough . |
| 20 | His eyes wanted her to be very late for work indeed . |
| 21 | So anyhow , I flew in the tail and found it to be very draughty , very cold , very uncomfortable and pretty darn boring ’ . |
| 22 | Although there is no survey which would give the extent of overcrowding and involuntary sharing , the evidence of the local authority waiting lists and of everyone 's personal experience shows it to be very great . |
| 23 | I bought the magazine , Shannonside , and found it to be very interesting . |
| 24 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 25 | But , most of all , I found it to be very difficult to decide how best to try to ensure that the environmental information that I was gathering would be used optimally by those reading my conclusions — both inside and outside my organisation . |
| 26 | I am certain that 21 of the 22 district society presidents in 1991/92 found it to be very valuable . |
| 27 | In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub . |
| 28 | I have seen a kingfisher here and a survey of the pond has shown it to be very important for invertebrates as well as amphibians . |
| 29 | I was promising myself to be very quiet , whatever it would be . |
| 30 | I think that American trustees have proved themselves to be very powerful in the 1980s ; the British system is to leave power very significantly with the director and the curators . |