Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 16th century there was a short period when , rather than the usual 13 ribs , lutes suddenly sprouted anything up to 37 and made of very narrow strips of yew . |
| 2 | That is , falling in love is regulated and constrained by very powerful social factors : the odds against HRH Prince Edward falling in love with Elsie from the Tesco supermarket are very high indeed . |
| 3 | The earliest forms of writing were developed by and confined to very limited specialist ( usually official ) groups ; they were later somewhat extended in continued urban development and in merchant trade . |
| 4 | It is totally sealed and spins at very high speeds and can therefore retrieve and store information very quickly . |
| 5 | Under this category there are also requests for assistance which amount to acts of community welfare , such as calls to lift aged and disabled people on to and off the toilet as well as into bed , and calls from very distressed pensioners and young children concerning lost pets ( on the police as a social service see Punch 1979b ; Punch and Naylor 1973 ) . |
| 6 | Souvla will be the order of the day — large chunks of lamb , marinated and seasoned with herbs , wine , oil and salt , are threaded onto the spit and cooked until very tender . |
| 7 | More advanced expert system tools have a greater range of construction and testing facilities and allow for very sophisticated representation of problems , but at much greater investment cost and technical requirement . |
| 8 | We test this hypothesis in the most conservative way , by testing the viability of an absorption model with the maximum chance of succeeding : we assume neutral rather than partially ionized hydrogen so that absorption is maximum , and allow for very soft X-ray spectra . |
| 9 | As we shall see , in each case the three theories focus on different phenomena to explain the causes of these problems and arrive at very different prescriptions for dealing with them . |
| 10 | COOK 'S NOTE : This is a marvellous starter , divided between six or eight people and served with very fine bird's-nest or capellini pasta . |
| 11 | Inevitably , the incontinent patient needs cleaning and drying at very frequent intervals , to prevent infections such as cystitis . |
| 12 | Their specialism is in lending and borrowing for very short periods of time from one day to up to about three months . |
| 13 | There is a bar and restaurant here serving food and drink at very reasonable prices . |
| 14 | Our January guest is , who is the Oxfordshire Advisor for Dance and comes with very strong recommendations . |