Example sentences of "very [adj] [to-vb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WAS very sorry to hear that the Albert Hill bus service was to be taken off . |
| 2 | The report concluded , ‘ we should be very foolish to argue that the economic system would not work if prices and incomes were behaving as they have behaved during some of the most prosperous epochs ; that is to say , rising slowly ’ . |
| 3 | In two separate incidents this year , sent a letter to a member asking for membership and was very embarrassed to learn that the member had paid her teacher some long time earlier . |
| 4 | Successive governments have been very careful to ensure that the benefits bought from a pension fund are taxed only once and strictly as deferred earned income . |
| 5 | The menu makes it very easy to use and the saving of high scores gives everybody something to aim for . |
| 6 | The Minor Pentatonic scale is a five note scale and can be played over a m7 chord ; on bass it is very easy to play because the notes lie right under the fingers … |
| 7 | Power assisted steering make it very easy to handle and the independent rear suspension on the saloons produced a high quality of road holding and comfort . |
| 8 | It is very sad to report that the entire actuarial staff of the Society was in bed before midnight and that everyone appeared with rosy complexion and clear eyes the following morning … |
| 9 | I , I 'm very sad to learn that the committee may not fee , feel quite so constrained to assist er , employees . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's very hard to predict because the costs are coming down rapidly , but I ca n't see it being an economic proposition until well into the next century , ’ Shah concludes . |
| 11 | During turns little or no rudder is required to maintain balance , the elevators , rudder and ailerons are excellent and well harmonised and one would be very hard to please if the little bird failed to impress . |
| 12 | From past experience with UK rules that allow ‘ discretion ’ , it is not very hard to imagine that the practice might bear little resemblance to the ‘ aim ’ of the policy . |
| 13 | I was very glad to hear that the Secretary of State , in his announcement on Tuesday , accepted this view when he said : ’ we would not wish to turn away willing and suitable volunteers ’ . |
| 14 | It is all very well to say that the production of a new rose plant is a skilled job and best left to specialists , but that takes little account of the satisfaction to be derived and enjoyed by trying something difficult , and being successful . |
| 15 | It is very important to realize that the body regulates itself very effectively in terms of its sleep requirements . |
| 16 | It is very important to stress that the relative bargaining strength of each party governs the kind of a deal which is made . |
| 17 | It is surprising that an anti-quantitative linguist should advocate confirmatory statistical testing , but it is very important to understand that the proposition put forward here is simply wrong . |
| 18 | It is therefore very important to ensure that the section is either complied with or that the transaction falls within one of the two available exemptions . |
| 19 | If there is no speech by three , indeed if there is no speech earlier than that , it might be very important to check that the child is not deaf . |
| 20 | If there is no speech by three , indeed if there is no speech earlier than that , it might be very important to check that the child is not deaf . |
| 21 | It is , therefore , very important to establish whether the property was recovered or preserved in the proceedings , since only then does the statutory charge apply . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm very happy to say that the lawyers did n't make a penny off this , ’ said Herwald . |
| 23 | Pearn and I were very concerned to ensure that the troops who would liberate Burma should know something of the country and its people , for the army that fought the retreat in 1942 had had little time to learn any of the background . |
| 24 | We are very pleased to see that the draft directives are allowing the partnership between the profession and the supervisory authorities to continue . |
| 25 | I 'm very pleased to say that the union er involved had actually pursued the appeal even though the woman had died , and won the appeal posthumously so that the backdated pay could be given to the widower in that case . |
| 26 | There was considerable debate on communication between sections and their members , and LAB was very pleased to learn that the distribution of notices , programme cards etc could once again be effects through insertion into Chemistry in Britain . |
| 27 | Without Michael Fish ( no pun intended ) to tell me what the weather would bring the next day , I was very pleased to find that the local paper La Voz de Galicia carried an excellent synoptic chart and forecast . |
| 28 | When we were recently in the United States I was very pleased to find that the top officials there , including Eagleburger and Robson , advised us not to hurry . |
| 29 | I 'd like to er say one or two words before er moving the amendment and I , I 'm very pleased to hear that the two are to be incorporated as it were into this one . |
| 30 | It is very common to find that the combination of the adverbal adjective and its preceding verb can be matched by a single verb , without any change at all in the overall syntactic pattern or in the meaning : 14 ( a ) you should make the string longer you should lengthen the string ( b ) his sister wanted to set the owl free his sister wanted to release the owl or his sister wanted to free the owl ( c ) Liz had knocked her fiancè unconscious Liz had stunned her fiancè ( The same remark can be made of what are plainly close relatives of this construction , namely separable verbs where the second part is an adverb , or " particle " , as with put up ( = accommodate ) , or pull off ( = achieve . ) |