Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may affect very young people and they may lose all their hair , and I have at least two patients with miocencia who are bald in this way , and this type of baldness is believed to be auto-immune , so I think that one could , perhaps , jokingly suggest that Samson may also have had alopecia and it was n't Delila who cut off his hair , but his auto-antibodies that destroyed the hair making process , and all that makes poor Delila something of a victim of history and perhaps we should be springing to her defence . |
| 2 | In other cases , the Bank of England may influence very short-term rates through its operations in the discount markets . |
| 3 | I think Chris Patten is right to stand up to the Chinese , even though it may make very little difference in the end . |
| 4 | You must try very hard Charlotte . |
| 5 | Street declared in The Builder that Parker was expressing his personal views and not writing on behalf of the Oxford Architectural Society , and if Parker 's ‘ excessively antiquarian view of our own present duties were to be put forward as the real and right ground for us to work upon , I , for one , should have very little hope of the ultimate success of our course ’ . |
| 6 | The grasses for long leys should have very little Italian ( annual ) rye-grass , as this is liable to die out within two years leaving gaps where indigenous grasses such as poa annua will take over . |
| 7 | I mean all this sitting on the fence I mean they must have very sore bums . |
| 8 | The idea was this : When the star becomes small , the matter particles get very near each other , and so according to the Pauli exclusion principle , they must have very different velocities . |
| 9 | ‘ You English people must have very big houses ’ ) . |
| 10 | For a high degree of rejection , the capacitors must be very low loss and the resistors must exhibit very little capacitance . |
| 11 | A script which should require very little rehearsal . |
| 12 | Unlike adults , infants may show very short delays between sleep onset and active sleep onset , sometimes going straight into active sleep . |
| 13 | Since the conductivity is very low , precise techniques would need to be developed for its measurement , which may present very difficult problems to be overcome , but the research programme would be complete once the relevant information had been obtained . |
| 14 | Coins may also be acquired from various sources ; local finds or gifts of collectors may give very different pictures . |
| 15 | Of course , you might have very large wrists because you are extremely overweight ; the measurement may indicate thickness of fat rather than bone size . |
| 16 | They can also be used for tests for structural change , right , what we 're going to do is to say during peacetime right , we 'll estimate our model , we 'll then estimate our model during wartime and we 're going to assume that the coefficients or the income and price elasticity mark , do n't change during between peace and wartime , all that happens is as they intercept this model shifts , right , now you may thinks that 's not particularly er attractive , you might expect the price of income elasticities to change between two periods and we could actually use dummy variables to see whether that is the case , right , however , we 'll get very similar results , right , if you just use a slope dummy so it 'd intercept dummy , right , and all that 's going to do is to say , well the model runs like this in peacetime , right , and then wartime it suddenly shifts up or down depending on the effect of er of the war on textile consumption . |
| 17 | For many women this will cause no problems but for some it might cause very substantial difficulties . |
| 18 | In fact , you 'll find very little meat on the island . |
| 19 | The IMF 's programme in Trinidad and Tobago is a case in point and in his resignation letter Budhoo asserts : ‘ We manipulated , blatantly and systematically , certain key statistical indices so as to put ourselves in a position where we could make very false pronouncements about ( the ) economic and financial performance of that country . ’ |
| 20 | I could discover very few details about either of these women . |
| 21 | It could have very serious implications . ’ |
| 22 | use of inappropriate language could have very negative effects on the teacher 's standing with pupils . |
| 23 | In Vienna , almost to the end of his long reign , Francis Joseph could have very real control . |
| 24 | Some in the Republic believe , though , that the decision to call off the tours would suit the SARU , who have been made aware that three matches in four days in Bucharest in the middle of June followed by two in a week in Rome could leave very few survivors from heat stroke . |
| 25 | And that if you open the doors to compensation whenever er this sort of thing arose , then th , this could mean very substantial expenditure for the Health Service . |
| 26 | There is also the safety aspect : if you have bad lighting or dangerously worn carpet on part of the staircase , waiting for a few years to tackle the problem because it is all part of the grand plan could prove very false economy indeed . |
| 27 | I would have been pleased to start this section in similar fashion , but could find very little evidence of improvements . |
| 28 | Even the band of wavelengths that we share with other animals may create very different impressions , for there are a wide variety of eye designs in the natural world . |
| 29 | Fathers may have very strong views on what course of action their daughters should take . |
| 30 | Such decisions , for example , as where and when to build a new warehouse , whether to buy out competitors or whether to change product structure , may have very long-term consequences and involve huge investments of money . |