Example sentences of "is [art] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the rag I should be using for this is the very dirty one and I 've started off with the clean one by accident . |
| 2 | A spokesman for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors commented ‘ The problem is the very low fee charged for a valuation , and the possibly massive liability at the end of it ’ . |
| 3 | The striking aspect of Tables 9.6(a) and ( b ) is the very low levels of loan capital issued in the UK by British corporations between 1973 and 1980 ( inclusive ) . |
| 4 | A major problem with the extent of underthrusting required ( in excess of 1000km ) is the very low angle of subduction that it implies ( 5° or less ) . |
| 5 | The method is , however , applicable only if the investigator has extremely clear goals in mind , already well worked out in advance , and a major disadvantage is the very limited nature of the data which it is capable of yielding . |
| 6 | The sixth category is the very frequent combination of slurs and dots — dots , never strokes . |
| 7 | Another feature of the civil status distribution of the older age groups is the very small percentage of the older age groups classified as divorced . |
| 8 | What must strike the modern reader is the very small amounts of out-relief involved in such cases . |
| 9 | Possibly more terrifying than the prospect of being run through with poisoned weapons , gassed by noxious organic exhalations from embalmed bodies , or turning black with anthrax , is the very real prospect of an object disintegrating in ( or falling from ) one 's hands . |
| 10 | More important than any lack of efficacy is the very real risk that vaccines prepared from killed or attenuated virus particles may contain carcinogenic elements . |
| 11 | One of these problems is the very real one of cash . |
| 12 | First of all , there is the very real ethical problem : is it morally permissible for a social scientist to get information through false pretences ? |
| 13 | A second factor of importance is the very real differences which exist between the prevalence of certain types of mental disorder , particularly schizophrenia , in different ethnic groups . |
| 14 | There is the very grand eighteenth-century apartment in Saint Germain furnished with museum-quality eighteenth-century furniture . |
| 15 | A peculiarity of human beings is the very weak degree to which we are endowed with " natural " discriminating powers of this sort . |
| 16 | But perhaps the most important aspect of any career is the very personal one : how does it feel to be an EFL teacher ? |
| 17 | Subsequent development of superconducting microwave cavities may have changed the situation , but perhaps of more interest is the very recent suggestion { 36 } to operate lasers in the intermediate regime the far infrared . |
| 18 | Even more importantly , there is every reason to believe , with Mary Midgley , that the basic assumption behind cultural relativism/behaviourism that human beings are totally plastic and devoid of innate structuration is false : ‘ Sensible psychologists have tended more and more to admit that people do have some genetically fixed tendencies ’ and she continues that ‘ What makes this admission hard , is the very strong impression still prevalent that we have to choose between considering these tendencies and considering outside conditions ’ ( 1979 : 20 ) . |
| 19 | Aye this is this is the very strong one . |
| 20 | That I know is the very strong view of my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary and indeed , also amongst a good many members in another place and indeed in Your Lordships House . |
| 21 | A striking point is the very extensive effort ‘ Centro ’ is making to inform and persuade the public that this scheme is a beneficial one — a welcome contrast to the many cases of official bullying one hears about ! |
| 22 | The legal position in relation to the ag arrangement is uncertain since it is not expressed to provide it for in the will of Mrs who is , who is the very kindly elderly neighbour who is the landlord , but is only contained in a letter of Mrs from whom I have not heard in evidence . |
| 23 | A gondolier does n't come cheap — but punting down the canals is the very best way to explore |
| 24 | With the older boys there are times when leave them alone is the very best policy , you can intrude too much on a pupil who knows what he 's doing ; maybe not doing it 100 per cent successfully , but you 've got to let him get to that point of destruct , as part of his learning process … |
| 25 | Their gross ignorance is the very smallest of their sins … anything so uncouth I never saw before … ’ wrote the British Consul at La Spezia , Italy , under the nom de plume Cornelius O'Dowd . |
| 26 | The accusation , ‘ that person has no conscience ’ , carries a condemnation of character , but the real culprit is the society which has failed to raise to a position of the utmost importance in the public mind , the fact that the human conscience is the very rock-bottom foundation on which civilisation rests . |
| 27 | This is the very first idea to be taken into consideration when a choreographer starts to work with music . |
| 28 | This is the very first idea which suggests the beginning of a new research project in the person concerned . |
| 29 | ‘ It is the very first duty of any government to protect its citizens , not only from external attack but also from internal attack by criminals within our country , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Now this is the very first day of school for each one of you . |