Example sentences of "[not/n't] very [adj] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had looked quite straightforward , thought Fenella , who was not very used to maps and was still adjusting to the vastness of this world after small Renascia . |
| 2 | Edward shouted back something that the wind carried away , but he seemed to be saying , once again , that he was not very used to boats . |
| 3 | Not very partial to mushrooms . |
| 4 | That is relevant to people who are in work , as those of us who have mortgages know , but , generally speaking , it is not very relevant to pensioners , who , if they had a mortgage , have usually paid it off . |
| 5 | But , as you point out , they are not very similar to dollars … ’ |
| 6 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 7 | Generally , Keynesians argue that increases in money supply have a small and uncertain effect on aggregate demand because the L curve is elastic an unstable and because investment is not very responsive to changes in interest rates ; but that any increase that does occur in aggregate demand is likely to affect output and employment if there is demand-deficient unemployment : AS is relatively elastic until full employment is approached . |
| 8 | In my answers to the Murray Commission , I was not very complimentary to 40-overs Sunday cricket , thinking based on the fact that this version of the game is the one furthest removed from ‘ proper ’ cricket , and that over the 1991 season I had become so disenchanted with the Sunday slog ( in both senses ) that I had played so consistently badly on the Sabbath as to persuade my employers that somebody else might be more usefully selected on the day . |
| 9 | For example , it may be of little value that the authorities are able to control interest rates via monetary instruments if the relevant objectives are not very sensitive to changes in interest rates . |
| 10 | Moreover , the Cytherean thermospheric temperatures are not very sensitive to changes in solar uv radiation . |