Example sentences of "very [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the intake of azo-bound drugs , the mucosal concentrations are very low despite a low systemic absorption . |
| 2 | They will find it extremely difficult going outside on a bright day and may see very little on a sunny day . |
| 3 | However , we know very little in a systematic way about the circumstances under which this is considered a desirable option , or the terms under which young people live in a relative 's household . |
| 4 | ‘ She has suffered considerable personal distress since being identified as the one responsible for the bomb hoax and will be very upset by a custodial sentence . ’ |
| 5 | Not only were they very receptive from a tactical viewpoint , they also kept their cool under pressure . |
| 6 | just one question that I was n't able to put on the Committee 's behalf , but I think it is something that we would be very grateful for a short written comment and that is the information that your members , that the members of the pension funds actually er rather than your annual members as well in that context actually receive annually and whether you feel that is satisfactory . |
| 7 | I quite like her as a colleague and she 's very pleasant as a casual friend but she 's impossible to live with . |
| 8 | He considered it ‘ very foolish for a young man to act in such a silly way ’ and ‘ What he did it for he could not tell , for there was no fun in it . ’ |
| 9 | She had rigged up an old green bedspread over the thin cotton curtains , so the room was very dim with a murky greenish light . |
| 10 | The silver-haired gentleman , who turned out to be fluent in English and very charming in a gracious sort of way , chatted to her amiably about the south of France , though Alyssia did n't miss the way his eyes wandered unconsciously across to his wife every so often . |
| 11 | It looked very different to a nautical chart and made little sense to me , but I gradually deciphered some of the meaning from its weird markings . |
| 12 | The situation is very different in a homogeneous , isotropic , curved space with K negative . |
| 13 | But it is very different from a forward contract and has been designed to remove many of the disadvantages of forward contracts . |
| 14 | A babbling upland brook is physically very different from a lazy lowland river , and there are subtle gradations all the way between . |
| 15 | In principle these recorders are not so very different from a normal domestic tape recorder , but they too are installed in the tail end of the aircraft and are heavily protected from crash damage . |
| 16 | The normal debenture , however , is very different from a single mortgage of land. , It generally consists of one of a series of securities ranking pari passu with each other . |
| 17 | Very light with a delicate flavour . |
| 18 | The female 's colour will be the reverse , very light with a mottled pattern . |
| 19 | The area was very wet with a large puddle directly under the end of the slide . |
| 20 | He was very generous in a quiet , unostentatious way . |
| 21 | As spouses and relatives and friends of their age move away , or die , old people look more and more to their few surviving relatives and neighbours for affection , friendship and reassurance and can easily become very dependent on a small number of people for social contact . |
| 22 | Defender David Bardsley is ruled out of today 's match at Southampton by an ankle injury picked up playing for England in Spain , while Andy Sinton is also very doubtful with a sore foot . |
| 23 | The platypus became very interested in a live 1.5v battery , investigating it with its bill , while it ignored a dead battery . |
| 24 | The rate of unemployment in Glasgow has been very high for a long time , and I accept that that is unfortunate . |
| 25 | For example , cancer of the hard palate is found worldwide but is fairly rare ; however , the prevalence is very high in a certain area of South America . |
| 26 | When I woke up , I was on a train and feeling very uncomfortable after a long sleep . |
| 27 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 28 | ‘ I used to be very much of a guitar-turned-bass player , ’ he admits , ‘ although this past year I 've started listening to bass players properly . |
| 29 | Payback remained very much of a hypothetical order . |
| 30 | on radio , television , sponsorship , sessions and producer work I take 20 per cent because those things are often rather fiddly , involving quite a lot of work and not producing very much of a financial return . |