Example sentences of "not [adv] [vb pp] very " in BNC.

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1 He not only used very expressive ports de bras for his other-worldly characters but changed the usual conception of classical pointe-work .
2 Unfortunately conservation is not usually considered very much under this policy .
3 One of the criticisms of the list last year was that it was weighted too heavily towards a younger generation , a generation that overall had not really accomplished very much .
4 As far as I can make out , all we have done so far is talk about it and we have not even done very much of that .
5 Although Microsoft has not yet gone very public on it , MSDOS 6 is due by the end of March 1993 , and will include the following utilities :
6 He has not therefore got very far with devolving budgets .
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