Example sentences of "be very [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 2 | It has attempted to be very explicit about what it considers to be unnecessary local expenditure . |
| 3 | As was explained in Chapter 5 , some tropical tree species seem to be very homogeneous in their morphology over wide ranges , even including populations widely separated from others with little possibility for gene exchange . |
| 4 | My plans had to be very long-term at first . |
| 5 | Although there is no speaker grille or cloth for protection , the cone does sit some six inches back from the front of the cab , so you would have to be very unlucky for anything to poke that far in through the narrow slot to do any damage . |
| 6 | We 'd drop old ladies off at Victoria Station and the black cab drivers used to be very grumpy with us — in fact they used to punch you very hard in the mouth . |
| 7 | You get to tell the program which card you 're using once the full installation is done and the program has been booted — we assume that the final documentation will handle this in the customary WordPerfect manner , and be very complete on the subject . |
| 8 | Close friends and certainly married couples ought to be very familiar with the ideas and opinions held by their partner . |
| 9 | Eventually , the program will be near completion , and the people who have tested it this far will be very familiar with it . |
| 10 | You need to be very familiar with the text , you ca n't learn it word-for-word for goodness sake , but you certainly are able to identify all the key issues and key aspects of it and that 's what you 're looking out for , so you could re-tell the story again , you can re-tell the story again yourself accurately , identifying all the key points . |
| 11 | Now that 's a picture which er many of you will be very familiar of with . |
| 12 | So that 's , that should all be very familiar to you . |
| 13 | While Judith , Rachel and Karen are sure their partners are happy to go along with the little alterations they try to make , Zelda says that interfering too much can prove to be very dangerous to a relationship . |
| 14 | Clearly the general view is that it will be very dangerous for us to stay out because we risk a German-dominated Europe . ’ |
| 15 | Exposing oneself to the night can not only have a powerful personal effect , but , in modern cities , be very dangerous for a woman . |
| 16 | ‘ And with all those nuclear weapons around , that would be very dangerous for us as well . ’ |
| 17 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 18 | " It must be very dangerous on the roof , " Melinda said . |
| 19 | ‘ Because for a few days now it will be very dangerous in the forest . ’ |
| 20 | In this chapter , I want to be very critical of the ‘ theoretical reformism ’ this kind of work represents , and the assumptions about language that underlie it . |
| 21 | They identified the internal management of local authorities as an important factor in attracting arid retaining councillors and officers of sufficient calibre and went on to be very critical of the existing system . |
| 22 | If the former , she would wish to be very certain of the value of the prize and fully confident that war will secure it . |
| 23 | Vote for us or it will be very embarrassing for you . ’ |
| 24 | It could be very embarrassing for them to arrive and find you already there . " |
| 25 | Old people are , of course , entitled to the same social courtesies as we are , and it can be very irritating for them if they are made to feel that they are regarded as has-beens who have nothing better to do than to sit around waiting to be visited at our convenience . |
| 26 | and not the back of the photograph , otherwise you 'll get yourself in all sorts of difficulties and it may make a nice editorial , nice letters to the editor , but it would be very irritating to the editor , because they hate having mistakes pointed out to them , and that 's picture perspective . |
| 27 | They are also likely to include members who have a high profile in the community and their enthusiasm for the school , or lack of it , may be very influential on others . |
| 28 | Such discussions , often conducted by civil servants , can be very influential in deciding the details of a bill . |
| 29 | It is worth remembering that nursing staff can be very influential in making recommendations . |
| 30 | If you talk loudly , it can be very nasty on a hearing aid . |