Example sentences of "and [adj] [is] very [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You will do what we say , and that is very simple .
2 ‘ The fog is moving towards us , Watson , and that is very serious , ’ said Holmes .
3 ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years .
4 ‘ Once you start saving yourselves for big games and ducking out of tackles , you get into the wrong frame of mind and that is very dangerous , ’ warned Howard , who is hoping to steer his side through to the second round of the FA Cup for the first time for 17 years .
5 And that is very important in an age whose cultural life is divided between ‘ high ’ , minority , activity and ‘ low ’ , mass , activity as never before .
6 They know they are safe here and that is very important .
7 There are no stars at Hamilton Park but they are hard and learning to play as a team and that is very important .
8 And that is very important .
9 What is clear is that the rate of increase in unemployment is beginning to slow , and that is very welcome .
10 Well , we want to see our members , the U K employees , having the same opportunity to join the project on the same terms as people from the rest of Europe and that 's very appropriate this time when everybody 's talking about Europe , we think .
11 What I am suggesting is that I think if you if you concentrate only on the question of who are the chief officers that 's very important and that 's very indicative , but it 's not the whole story .
12 And you would actually , in a facial , you would have a facial massage with aromatherapy oils and that 's very relaxing , that 's very nice .
13 Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun .
14 It is , above all , something where you have to be utterly precise and there 's no warm up , you just go out there and do it and that 's very challenging .
15 And that 's very good from our point of view .
16 You 're now beginning to use the short- term plan to muster resources and that 's very dangerous because er , you 've only got a very small snapshot of what 's going on .
17 There was little respect for the drugs and that 's very dangerous .
18 Colin Calderwood says that everywhere you go people stop and wave and that 's very nice but it 's been good to get away this week but now they 're back in town the pressure will start to build
19 And that 's very useful in sort of more statistical type problems er as we 'll see later .
20 When I go past , I wonder what has been happening to her in the intervening years , and that 's very odd . ’
21 The problem with this was that although Dawn was interested in the chick , once she was airborne she also realised that she had freedom and that 's very attractive , too !
22 We 've tightened up considerably at the back , and that 's very pleasing from my point of view . ’
23 So we 're , we 're particularly pleased that you 're here for a slightly mercenary reason actually , because with a thousand delegates coming into the city , it really does boost , even for a week , boosts the local economy and that 's very pleasing .
24 Well it 's just that for that , I mean that 's all , it 's all relative for those conditions there are , there is too much labour on the land , you erm , if you could increase agricultural productivity in a way that would displace labour and that 's very difficult to do , well you can , you can do it er most , most capital is labour displacing but not all , not all capital , erm so you could , whereas I see , I see what you are saying is that , why well the you could g you could , you could do it right even though that there are a lot of people on the land er you could still make them wholly productive by giving them more capital that was n't labour that was n't labour displacing , like you give them better seeds for example , like that would increase the productivity of the land , there would n't be so much you know population pressure on the land er because everybody would have enough to eat and we could er actually sell something , right .
25 And that 's very difficult to do .
26 So it 's costing us approximately twenty pence for each bottle and that 's very high , that 's a very high quality bottle .
27 The other thing you need is a chest X-ray , and that 's very important er to see exactly what degree of trouble is going on .
28 I 'm my own man and that 's very important in these times , even if you have n't had the problems I 've had , and you have n't , because that 's perfectly obvious , you 're sitting there and asking me the questions .
29 The circulation is erm is has grown every year we 've had it and that 's very important because erm a lot of the subscrip a lot of the circulation of Les Echo is in fact a subscription in advance such it 's cash generating qualities are high even when the profits are down .
30 But there is a bonus to that in that people hope that by testing their ideas about the uncertain physics , by building models of that early stage , that those models will have consequences for the things that get left behind in the universe for the present , and so they might be able to test their ideas about how matter behaves at very high density by using cosmology , and that 's very important because we have no other way of doing it .
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