Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [prep] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tempered hardboard ( tempered with oil or resin ) is more durable and water-resistant , so can be used outdoors , eg as a wall lining or cladding ; or indoors as a very hard-wearing floorcovering . |
| 2 | But decline does not mean " cessation " , immediately or even after a very long time ; although erection will occur gradually less often , ejaculation will take longer to achieve with the passing years and the frequency of sexual intercourse tends slowly to decrease , there need not be any enormous difference sexually between a man of 20 and one of 70 . |
| 3 | Law agreed , although not with a very good grace . |
| 4 | Gurder laughed , although not in a very happy way . |
| 5 | Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with . |
| 6 | Carole Ann Ford had just begun a crossing from one side to the other when , without warning , the supports gave way , pitching her over and down to a very rough landing at the foot of ‘ the cliff ’ . |
| 7 | The lift used to go up and down in a very slow stately fashion just like a cliff railway . |
| 8 | The Bank deals mainly with discount houses and only on a very limited basis with the commercial banks . |
| 9 | M paratuberculosis has been cultured from Crohn 's disease tissues but only after prolonged incubation and only in a very small minority of cases . |
| 10 | She was hit by a wave of familiarity ; the sudden realisation that this was the man with whom she had shared so much , if only for a very short time . |
| 11 | It is worth trying , even if only in a very small quantity . |
| 12 | Hinrich Medau evolved a simple method of teaching piano improvisation so that even students who have never played the piano before and have no previous knowledge of music almost all learn to play well for movement , even if only in a very simple way . |
| 13 | He allowed himself , or claimed to allow himself , no beliefs about the world which could n't be justified if , if , even if only in a very loose sense , by scientific canons of procedure . |
| 14 | And finally we went to see Karl Dönitz , the admiral who throughout the war had epitomized the U-boat service and been its inspired leader , who in 1943 had relieved Admiral Raeder as Germany 's naval commander-in-chief , and finally for a very brief period before arrest and ten years ' imprisonment in Spandau had succeeded Hitler as Chancellor . |
| 15 | The application of traffic calming in Britain has thus been almost imperceptible , implemented here and there on new housing estates , and usually in a very diluted and faint-hearted manner . |
| 16 | If these levels are not well-separated the transistor T2 switches on and off at a very high frequency , causing interference with adjacent equipment and additional iron losses it , the motor . |
| 17 | But we are giving , we are giving him a post , another body , and hopefully with a very careful job description he will get a trained person , because we also recognise the fact that Oxford 's a marvellous place for people to come . |
| 18 | And like in a very |
| 19 | Much medieval painting has come down to us in a fragmentary condition , and often in a very poor state of conservation . |
| 20 | I go along and watch women 's football and get really infuriated to see a man out there refereeing the game , and often in a very condescending manner ! |
| 21 | Puff pastry goes on top and then into a very hot oven . |
| 22 | But only for a very short time . ’ |
| 23 | But only for a very short time . ’ |
| 24 | In this sense a verdict may be given on its policies , but only in a very general way . |
| 25 | A DNA-DNA colony hybridization study ( 11 ) performed with an IS1151 probe internal to the ORF sequence ( nucleotides 314 to 1303 ) also revealed homologous sequences in some non-epsilon-toxin-producing strains : in all 7 type C strains ( beta-toxin-producing ) , in 3 out of 8 enterotoxin-producing type A strains , but only in a very few non-enterotoxigenic type A strains ( 5 of 108 ) . |
| 26 | but bbc 's ceefax service last night had a new article saying that grizzly gazza was not for sale and that lazio had contacted several clubs but just at a very premature state . |
| 27 | I live circumscribed and self-communing — 't is best so — not like a Princess in a thicket , by no means , but more like a very fat and self-satisfied Spider in the centre of her shining Web , if you will forgive me the slightly disagreeable Analogy . |
| 28 | In our study autoantibodies detected in ulcerative colitis are not only directed towards neutrophils , but also to a very small percentage of monocytes ( Ellerbroek et al ; submitted ) . |
| 29 | When he went home to Basle he showed the photographs to his family and pointed out to them ‘ my very good neighbour Canon Ramsay [ sic ] from Durham , an authentic Anglo-Catholic , with strange views concerning tradition , succession , ontology and so on , but also with a very convincing twinkle in his eye … a man with whom I more often agreed than disagreed … the outstanding figure in the picture of my first ecumenical experience ! ’ |
| 30 | This was particularly noticeable in relation to the development and use of pupil self-assessment procedures in some of the art departments visited , as a method for encouraging children to have a clearer understanding of what they are attempting to do , to enable them to have a more informed approach to criticism , but also as a very beneficial diagnostic tool for teachers to evaluate the effectiveness of their own teaching programmes . |