Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SMALL businesses do not seem to know about the industrial building allowances introduced last November , and the uptake has been very disappointing , David Wilson , chairman of Wilson Bowden , the Midlands house-builder and developer , said yesterday . |
| 2 | He concludes that although developed during 25 years , progress has been very rapid , but in many fields there is still considerable scope for further empirical work . |
| 3 | And Mr Wilikins has been very helpful . |
| 4 | I t has been very successful too in involving relatives and neighbours people living around the facility . |
| 5 | ‘ The response has been very good , ’ he says . |
| 6 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 7 | Over two thousand organisations receive it , your initial response has been very encouraging , and many people saying within the sector , that it is essential reading . |
| 8 | More than 20,000 copies have been distributed throughout the country and Langbaurgh Council 's chief tourism and leisure officer Paddy Corcoran said : ‘ Response has been very encouraging so far . ’ |
| 9 | But as Valerie Bransfield , personnel adviser , reports : ‘ The initial response has been very positive . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The recession has been very bad for our customers . |
| 11 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 12 | No the experience has been very good you know , going through life all that time . |
| 13 | This adaptable group of birds has been very successful at exploiting food resources made available by humans . |
| 14 | But the past year waiting for the auction has been very difficult . |
| 15 | The pound has been very strong recently , particularly in the United States , where they 've got a weak dollar , and we have to put over the message that there are tremendous deals to be had erm both in air fares and when you get here in terms of hotel rates erm and in terms of prices of food and so forth . |
| 16 | The effect of such trends on British manufacturing industry has been very serious . |
| 17 | The British car manufacturing industry has been very reluctant to catch up with the clean technology being offered and vehemently resisted pressure to adopt catalytic converters for many years , advocating instead an alternative technology known as the ‘ lean burn engine ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ The deal has been very good for football , ’ he says , ‘ and I believe that television is going to be accepted as a very important tool in the game 's administration . |
| 19 | While Faldo has been very successful with David Leadbetter , I am more concerned by the specialist looking after his wrist . |
| 20 | Since 1976 , the flow of new investment has been very modest , and in some years negative . |
| 21 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 22 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |
| 23 | Well yes , Angie had been very busy and preoccupied with the wedding preparations , naturally , but she had been happy . |
| 24 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 25 | Since her conversion , Maisie had been very assertive about her need to submit . |
| 26 | Everyone he had met in Fontanellato had been very kind , a good deal kinder than the people of Štanjel had been to his successor ; which was encouraging . |
| 27 | Premium rises had been achieved in some areas , but other sectors had been very competitive . |
| 28 | One newly-qualified accountant , who is considering a trip to the Far East for a few months , said winter was traditionally a busy time for accountants because companies are preparing for their financial year-ends but the last few months had been very quiet . |
| 29 | Their voices had been very low . |
| 30 | Although other American sociologists such as Zurcher and Kirkpatrick have ( not uncritically ) applied Gusfield 's theory to contemporary anti-pornography movements , the most recent attempts at explaining the rise of groups such as the NVALA and the NFoL have been very critical of the theory of status defence . |