Example sentences of "to [be] very [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of stopping smoking needs to be very strongly emphasised , as well as the advisability of sticking to a low animal fat diet for the future , of getting the weight down to normal and of taking those measures necessary to reduce blood pressure to an ideal level , i.e. reducing salt and alcohol intake , keeping the weight normal , taking regular exercise and avoiding anger . |
| 2 | New brick built standard sort of more traditional type housing , which are very attractive and appear to be very well built . |
| 3 | It was built er It has to be It had to be very well built and firm , because then , when it was used for the cow for the er sheep , usually , that best hay was left for the sheep . |
| 4 | Well the , the , the , the , the sort of , the sort of background as I have seen it he never struck me as being particularly clever or bright it 's just that he always seemed to be very well taught and academically successful and exams never seemed an undue problem , and so he went off to Wolverhampton Poly which he selected for , you know , all the usual reasons , reasonable place , reasonable course , a reasonable this a reasonable that , tt erm to do computer science which of course all the kids want to do now erm twentieth centu no it is n't it 's a sort of nineteen eighties version of wanting to be an engine driver is n't it ? |
| 5 | Remember that I used to be very well known for sports shots . |
| 6 | With Denys Darlow 's proven ability as a spotter of potential stars one of the pleasures of Tilford is the real possibility that an unknown name on the programme will prove in five or ten years to be very well known . |
| 7 | You do n't seem to be very well equipped in that line . ’ |
| 8 | The time taken by each set of words has to be very exactly calculated , and a large part of the skill of a voice-over expert lies in the ability to fit a set of words into a precise length of time while still getting the required clarity and intonation . |
| 9 | Well it would have to be very strictly adhered to then next year . |
| 10 | The four speed gearbox seems to be very high geared . |
| 11 | Secondly , recruitment to the programmes seems to be very largely confined to teachers of non-advanced further education , responsible for courses at craft or technician level or below . |
| 12 | Our conviction is that the term knowledge worker needs to be very broadly defined . |
| 13 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 14 | Occasionally swear words are interspersed with functional words like it 's and mine but i it tends to be very heavily orientated towards the the less nice side of the language up there . |
| 15 | Garry deserved all that was coming to him ; fidelity in marriage seemed to be very little regarded but Garry must have known about the baby and there was no excuse for him . |
| 16 | If an objective is to be effectively measured it needs to be very clearly defined . |
| 17 | We will look later at whether this sort of action would be sufficient to answer the question of legal status of the e-mail ‘ record ’ and how this extraction process would need to be very clearly structured and closely managed to allow such routine deletion . |
| 18 | You seem to be very comfortably placed . |
| 19 | All I 'd say on five chairman is that this issue of infrastructure particularly sewerage , sewerage , foul water and water supply is a major issue in York and the location of the new settlement I think needs to be very closely assessed in terms of er of five . |
| 20 | Erm those are the issues which will have to be very carefully balanced . |
| 21 | But the proposition that the discretionary power contended for can be spelled out of the statutory language is , to me , so startling as to require the premise of the proposition to be very carefully examined . |
| 22 | Observation and care of the patient at risk of suicide therefore needs to be very carefully planned and coordinated . |
| 23 | The consequences of levelling it , providing a cover for perennial ryegrass and keeping people off — that is , changing it from land requiring little management to land requiring a great deal — needs to be very carefully assessed . |
| 24 | I shall not comment further , except to say that the consequences of such a step would need to be very carefully weighed . |
| 25 | For instance erm we would give certainly the better M S ones the smaller jobs to project manage , but that has to be very carefully thought about . |
| 26 | Such representations have to be very carefully researched , ensuring that as far as possible every detail is correct . |
| 27 | Such a strategy would have to be very carefully designed , however , if it were not to result in a huge explosion of word hypotheses . |
| 28 | However , the front-raised realization is easily perceived to be a very salient marker of vernacular speech in Belfast : as an identity marker , therefore , it marks nativeness to Belfast and adjacent areas , and it seems to be very firmly established . |
| 29 | In individual constituencies grievances with the established political parties have to be very deeply felt , and very widely shared , to upset the normal national electoral swings . |
| 30 | Hebrew is thought by some linguists to be very distantly related to the first three languages , and by other linguists not to be related , so the reason for the similarity can not be definitely given . |