Example sentences of "in a very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a very sarcastic voice ! |
| 2 | If he makes a cock-up of this , anything approaching a scandal , he 's finished in a very final way . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But you 're staying here , ’ he added , in a very final tone of voice . |
| 4 | In the semi-finals Miss Lockhart , very much a hard hitting baseline player , went on to defeat No. 3 seed Lindsay Nimmo in a very close battle , while Nina Topper defeated Maggie Laughton 7–5 6–2 . |
| 5 | ‘ If you take Ebbw Vale as an example , where we rendered 2,500 people redundant in a very close community , we got 1,500 people back to work again within eighteen months by the start-up of nineteen companies . |
| 6 | In a very close race it just might have helped . |
| 7 | Persuasion based upon religious belief can also be much more compelling and the fact that arguments based upon religious beliefs are being deployed by someone in a very close relationship with the patient will give them added force and should alert the doctors to the possibility — no more — that the patient 's capacity or will to decide has been overborne . |
| 8 | Er another problem we had as well is we had all going at the same time in a very close area as well . |
| 9 | ‘ He always got things done , but in a very nice way . |
| 10 | On the way out of this interview , she came across Miss Haines , clad in a thin ribbed sweater in a very nice shade of mustard , with a very nice matching skirt . |
| 11 | In a very nice house , in a very nice town |
| 12 | In a very nice house , in a very nice town |
| 13 | They did n't die in a very nice way , ’ she added , shuddering at the memory . |
| 14 | I only got Rosie 's help because he put it to you ; of course , it would be in a very nice way , that I was too tired to give him his rights . ’ |
| 15 | have the er figures in front of you of our progress during the last twelve months you will no doubt see that we are in a very nice financial position er only a pound and a penny off that magic thousand pound in in the club now . |
| 16 | I hope you are both as well as you can be , and to make up for my lack of inspiration here is a poem which I discovered in a very nice book of modern Scottish poetry : — |
| 17 | Lucy 's looking very nice in a very nice skirt today . |
| 18 | I think this illustrates in a very nice way what has recently been described as a new erm family circle . |
| 19 | Last night the leader of the Branch Davidian cult said : ‘ I 'm sure you 're all aware of how I 'm involved in a very serious thing right now . |
| 20 | Numerous requests for this purpose could impose an intolerable burden and not all of those requests would admit of a ready answer , having regard to the Director of Public Prosecution 's duty to prosecute and to make use of the most cogent evidence , particularly in a very serious case of great notoriety . |
| 21 | No one ever knew — in a very serious bit of comedy indeed . |
| 22 | We have er patrols , patrols out in the erm out in the area as part of our normal job , if they see anybody infringing the order , they 'll have a word with them and er make sure they know about it , and apart from that , as I say , we 're appealing to the good sense of our customers , we are in a very serious situation . |
| 23 | Another report from Rabkrin accused Tsentroevak , the Central Refugee Evacuation Commission , of behaving in a very complacent fashion over the number of migrants piling up in the cities of Samara , Penza and Voronezh . |
| 24 | In many cases we are virtually being asked to accept the evidence because the writer is putting it to us in a very skilful , persuasive way . |
| 25 | You know she 's er she lived in a very tiny house at at . |
| 26 | But I think the the where we lived er er there was this woman that was well known for doing , and she lived in a very tiny house . |
| 27 | Although the thunder and lightning had moved further off the horses were still in a very nervous state when the roar of flames over their heads drove them wild so that they were very difficult to handle . |
| 28 | But not this year , but because we found ourselves in a very embarrassing situation with the forty point limit and the fact that we 've got Hans Nielson on ten point three two which you know , is good in one respect , but it erm makes very difficult situations down the bottom end . |
| 29 | He got through and completed the event in a very respectable three hours 57 minutes . |
| 30 | Meyer proved she 's in the right sort of form by winning the 1,500m in the Western Province Championships at the weekend in a very respectable 4min 07.90sec , running alone for most of the race . |