Example sentences of "[adv] very [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Thomas , you see , was so very much a local philanthropist , a local administrator , indeed he was Lord Lieutenant I believe , some time in the ‘ seventies . |
| 2 | It was so very much the right place at the right time . |
| 3 | He put it down on the tray then captured her hand , suddenly very much the professional consultant . |
| 4 | Although it all sprang from God 's initiative , it was nevertheless very much a two-sided affair . |
| 5 | Levi 's double life as chemist and writer suggests that if art and work need to be separated , according to a certain sense of what it is to be a Jew , art and work are nevertheless very often the same . |
| 6 | Tony had always been serious , always very much the elder brother , checking Terry and Stephen , protective towards the girls , but now he seemed more relaxed . |
| 7 | But with the non-European world in general , with Asia and whatever independent states could be said to exist in Africa , with Latin America and even to a large extent with the United States , Europe 's relationship was still very largely an economic one based on the increasing flows of intercontinental trade . |
| 8 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher , with leadership skills for when he — and it is still very much a male preserve — heads a team . |
| 9 | Brewer had had only occasional playing time with Otago late last year , but he was still very much a central feature of the Otago championship-winning efforts . |
| 10 | In the UK , radio is still very much a poor relation in the advertising business . |
| 11 | But I should stress that this is still very much a personal interpretation by somebody only marginally involved in the market . |
| 12 | While the idea that the response to crime actually caused more crime was pleasantly ironic , it was nevertheless still very much a causal-sounding theory , and one of a particularly deterministic nature . |
| 13 | But he was still very much a public man , and to pay for his visit he had agreed to give a limited number of addresses and readings . |
| 14 | But whereas rap music is still very much a street-level phenomenon , jazz has become more and more a domain of the white middle classes . |
| 15 | Currie was still very much a leading figure within the SDLP when he made those remarks . |
| 16 | But in the society where she had been brought up marriage was still very much the expected norm . |
| 17 | I think historically although you know historians can much better than me , erm historically maybe the way that the rock has been worked with a bagging system and it was you know and lots of quarry men had little bits of farm as well around Blaenau especially and you get a feeling er from reading about it that er you know they have a an almost self employed attitude to their to their work and their rock and the fact that er they 'd do it in their own you know wor work the rock in a certain way and this and very sort of proud erm of their work and that and From talking a lot to them and being close to you know it you feel that that that 's still very much the same really you know there is this sort of close relationship and that with their em employers there was you know a lot of you know was n't it was n't straight it as straight as you said a straight employer employee relationship that they was A lot of s sort of er give and take probably and I think they were outraged at this sort of McGregor type tactic really that you know this new machine . |
| 18 | But when its current owners moved in in 1970 the kitchen was still very much the same . |
| 19 | Only with her , it was still very much an ongoing thing . |
| 20 | As an enemy , he was still very much an unknown quantity to them . |
| 21 | In this day and age , a few walkers find pleasing footpaths leading through this quiet old village , which was once very much a self-supporting community when access to the world outside the dale was difficult , especially in a hard winter when few travellers braved the snow-blocked lanes between the hills . |
| 22 | It must also be remembered that university education at Oxford and Cambridge before 1945 ( when those who are now judges attended ) was also very largely a middle-class activity , within the first three groups of the table set out above . |
| 23 | Gas supplies are also very much a political football in view of the high level of USSR supply but here the situation is less unstable because of the length of supply contracts involved . |
| 24 | In reality it was also very much a working woman 's disease , but this fact was generally ignored by physicians . |
| 25 | The journey is long and , occasionally , stirring ; but it is also very much the same at any one point , especially crossing Kansas , Colorado and Utah , where the landscapes become numbingly familiar . |
| 26 | There are numerous castles , including Chirk Castle which dates back to the 14th century and has some lovely formal gardens , and a little further away , Powis Castle , built in the 15th century but altered through the years and now very much a stately home with a large deer park . |
| 27 | Whilst knitting your designs you might spare a thought for Giant Pandas now very much an endangered species . |
| 28 | Only gradually did the commercial preoccupation with the projector and the venue shift to a greater interest in the films themselves and then very much the same kind of people who had struggled to control the machines and theatres began to make and distribute the films . |
| 29 | And then very very importantly the last mnemonic ANNA cos that really is belt and braces , it 's tying the whole thing up so the guy knows exactly why you 're gon na come back . |