Example sentences of "have [adv] be very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It has also been very difficult indeed to establish any reliable differences in sleep profiles between different sorts of people — men versus women , the extroverted versus the introverted or the intelligent versus the unintelligent . |
| 32 | The standard of manual design has traditionally been very low for several reasons . |
| 33 | In particular we must conclude that SEDIMENTATION IN THE PAST HAS OFTEN BEEN VERY RAPID INDEED AND VERY SPASMODIC . |
| 34 | It 's a major market and the tourism industry has really been very slow to wake up to this factor . |
| 35 | World travel market attended , the club promotion , although it 's still running , has n't been very successful , over four hundred bed nights into the campaign , as a result of that short running promotion . |
| 36 | Somebody did suggest that we ask Betty 's husband , but if he has n't been very helpful with the auditor , perhaps he 's not very keen on . |
| 37 | He has , he has n't been very active actually |
| 38 | Dell has never been very generous on the video RAM front and the 433/L is no exception . |
| 39 | Hoffman 's face has never been very expressive ( sometimes his rabbit stare makes me think that the great Maureen Stapleton has spawned an emotionally retarded.son ) , but he has always been able to get our empathy . ’ |
| 40 | The plans of the Grand Hall were on display throughout the fair , and they were warmly received ; Olympia 2 , though an improvement on the Barbican , has never been very popular with exhibitors or visitors . |
| 41 | ‘ If this is what comes of quoting silly old proverbs , ’ Laura grinned over at her husband , who had n't recovered from the birth nearly as quickly as she had , ‘ I think that we 'd better be very careful what we say in the future ! ’ |
| 42 | I 'd never been very good at big lies , and the thought of living one terrified me , but it was important that not only I , but the baby , should have some self-respect about its origins . |
| 43 | She 'd never been very interested in the Council anyway . |
| 44 | but I , I thought she 'd never been very open with it |
| 45 | This would mean that the early universe would have probably been very chaotic and irregular because there are many more chaotic and disordered configurations for the universe than there are smooth and ordered ones . |
| 46 | The structure of universities in Germany , France , Britain and the USA was very different , but everywhere they were by the end of the century centres of scientific research , while at the beginning of it they had mostly been very marginal to it . |
| 47 | ‘ You 've all been very kind . |
| 48 | They 've all been very responsible and they seem to have loads of energy and a sense of fun , which is essential if they 're babysitting for my three-year-old during the day . |
| 49 | It had all been very simple . |
| 50 | It had all been very tame . |
| 51 | Mr Bleasdale said the pool was chosen because it had ‘ every facility known to man ’ and added the staff had all been very helpful as had the mothers and toddlers from the Colchester area employed as extras . |
| 52 | He was puzzled , and she knew she had better be very careful about giving lectures on health to the customers . |
| 53 | And a recent book which has been very popular in the university , Goedel Esher Bach , which is on some of the aspects of artificial intelligence and ideas , has in its preface got a quite a long article on how the author actually organized all of the processes , right through to the final printing of that book , and indeed even wrote the programs for formatting the text , and it had obviously been very stimulating for him . |
| 54 | He had apparently been very obstreperous during the night — trying to get up , demanding to go home and so disturbing the other patients that he had been moved , temporarily to a private ward . |
| 55 | The police had already been very thorough by the time Bodie and Cowley gained access to Doyle 's cordoned off apartment . |
| 56 | The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all . |
| 57 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 58 | Edward 's references from the construction firm when he left Panama had not been very good . |
| 59 | Mervyn had visited the flat once for tea on a Sunday afternoon when her mother was still alive , but the occasion had not been very successful . |
| 60 | Someone had not been very intelligent , he thought . |