Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [is] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | State financial provision for the disabled is very complex and patchy . |
| 2 | ‘ Any extra accommodation for the homeless is very welcome , but it has to be measured against the scale of the problem . ’ |
| 3 | Care of the dying is very important . |
| 4 | The overall appearance of the Golden is very similar , from the rounded lower horn to the distinctly thinline body ( thin , that is , for a '50s archtop ) , along with bound f-holes and an ornate tailpiece . |
| 5 | In fact Arieti 's coverage of the latter is very cursory and he swiftly shifts to a discussion of examples of , to use Pickering 's term , ‘ creative malady ’ ; such as Proust 's asthma and Darwin ‘ s psychosomatic palpitations — examples that are interesting in themselves but largely irrelevant to the creativity/psychosis debate . |
| 6 | [ 1 ] Here the problem is magnified hugely not only because there are no words but because the behavioural repertoire of the newborn is very limited . |
| 7 | A spokesman for the Derry Baha'is said : ‘ The fact that these documents have been brought into the open is very important . |
| 8 | The third major difference between BR and RENFE is that union density in the latter is very low by British standards , though high in the Spanish context where only an estimated 20 per cent of the wage-earning workforce were members of unions ( Rijnen 1985 : 235 ) . |
| 9 | And the sense in which there is no arriving in The Possessed is very like that in which there is no reading tomorrow 's newspaper . |
| 10 | How much of this former water erosion can be attributed to pluvial phases in the Pleistocene is very doubtful . |