Example sentences of "[was/were] very [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were very alive to the fact that the Howie review was raising issues of integration and articulation that Further Education could n't afford to ignore . |
| 2 | Steenway Productions were very anxious about the injury ; it is the sort of thing all film companies dread , because it inevitably leads to enormous claims for compensation . |
| 3 | The rolling system and TAURUS will , however , reduce the settlement delay , and concomitant risks of non-settlement , which were very real in the back-log of unsettled deals after Big Bang . |
| 4 | On the other hand , there have always been people in the Christian Church who were very sure about the Holy Spirit . |
| 5 | My family and friends were very supportive throughout the divorce because they could see it was the right thing as we were n't making each other happy . |
| 6 | We were very poor in the first half and paid the price . ’ |
| 7 | But I , I only s er times were very poor as it was nineteen twenty seven , twenty eight and things were very poor in the mills especially . |
| 8 | His eyes were very dark behind the glasses , and his gaze was long and thorough . |
| 9 | Her eyes were very dark in the dim light , her hair like a hood that shadowed her face . |
| 10 | Him and Martin O' Neill together were very good on the Norwich match . |
| 11 | The situation as we saw it was that there were no obvious leading firms er there were firms that had a particularly they were leaders in a particular niche markets for example 's being very aggressive , they were certainly nationally leading on insolvency and they were getting a lot of a lot of beneficial er publicity from that , locally we saw them er as erm th they were very good in the tax field and certainly in the consultancy field , having one of their major consultancy based in by the airport . |
| 12 | The British troops were very friendly with the Madeirans and many courted the local girls , which is said to explain why so many fair-haired and blue-eyed men and women of obvious Anglo-Saxon ancestry are to be seen in Madeira . |
| 13 | The grey-green eyes were very intent on the shadowy uncertainty in hers . |
| 14 | The hotel boasted passenger lifts , electric bells , revolving doors and even a ladies ' smoking room , which were very advanced for the period and reflected the Midland Railway 's innovative character . |
| 15 | The Wisharts were about to settle down to their reading when the corridor door slid open and an elderly lady eased her way into the compartment ; the newcomer was wearing a striking black silk dress and black hat which were very reminiscent of the Victorian age . |
| 16 | The Tyneside Shorthorns were very similar to the Ayrshire in 1790 and even as late as 1887 there was a Dutch breed in Drenthe which looked exactly like the Ayrshire of the time . |
| 17 | These five were very similar to the Ipswich group ; all except one were women ; all lived alone ; only one had a closely involved relative ( and like the similar Ipswich case it was a working daughter who needed help to care for her mother when she was unavailable ) . |
| 18 | Our histological patterns were very similar to the ultrastructural ones : a normal epithelium colonised by an interrupted file of organisms lying on the epithelial surface ; a degenerated epithelium colonised by a reduced number of bacteria that seemed adherent to the epithelial surface or at intercellular junctions . |
| 19 | In the days following , press reports started to appear that I , and indeed Ken Clarke who as Minister of State for Health was still outside the Cabinet , were very unhappy about the new emphasis of policy . |
| 20 | There was n't a single word mentioned about that particular paper and the very fact that that conference rejected it , because they failed to consult properly with those who were involved in that section and they were very unhappy about the way Apex was being fragmented . |
| 21 | This only makes it the more significant that contempt and disdain were very far from the whole story of foreign attitudes , and where they were expressed there was normally some particular reason for it . |
| 22 | He said that his future plans as an owner were very uncertain at the moment . ’ |
| 23 | Kevin 's sister-in-law Susan said : ‘ Many people were very disturbed by the way the case went . |
| 24 | they were very dissatisfied with the amount of feedback they had had following the presentation of the report ; |
| 25 | The Germans this time proved to be the better shots , but were very impressed with the new British SA-80 rife and its optic sight . |
| 26 | We were very impressed with the machine 's ergonomics , allowing the machine to be used for longer periods than the conventional straight shaft models . |
| 27 | We were very impressed with the noise suppression on this planer , as most planers tend to be as noisy as routers . |
| 28 | Erm having seen the stand that 's still up , they realize that that was built in eighteen sixty two but were very impressed with the other three . |
| 29 | In both cases we were very impressed by the quality of the members of the management committee whom we met , and in particular by their obvious commitment to the community development aspects of the venture . |
| 30 | We were very impressed by the quality of the designs entered for the competition organised by Hobby Horse , in conjunction with three local schools , when they held their annual knitting exhibition in Cwmbran . |