Example sentences of "[prep] be very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literacy models for her O.P.P are very contemporary . |
| 2 | After being very much the king/queen of the castle at secondary school it was a great eye opener to find herself surrounded by all these brilliant and clever people " . |
| 3 | But then you come and tell us well they 're a charitable trust I would of thought that a charitable trust would of been very er , happy to have seen the some rented accommodation ? |
| 4 | It must of been , it must of been very difficult for her ? |
| 5 | So it was n't long , no it could n't of been very long |
| 6 | I know I 'd had to smash the door , he had to smash the door open with a spade , the lock for me , cos , he , he , he could n't get , he tried er taking that panel out at the bottom and he could n't get it out and I did n't really want him to smash the double glazed glass , in fact it , that would of been very difficult |
| 7 | with a gas I should n't of been very pleased either would you Geoff ? |
| 8 | Well I do n't think I would of been very pleased if you 'd put a go in the room for an hour ! |
| 9 | They , they may sort of be very submissive , B types , and therefore they can be stressed in a different way . |
| 10 | I would like to say in general Mr I think that as a Committee we should welcome this report which does , it really does er has done a very thorough job and ha a a and provides us now with a s understandable framework and and time scale work when you 've got target and when brought forward or shown to any member of the complex that that erm I think provisionally with the backlog of what is now ready to tackle the result onto our and commissioner is grant er , er grant , erm there will be , it will be like an enormous benefits not just in those areas that John has taken us to but in general atmosphere which kind of be very tense and competition and I think we 'll be , be seeing the action in this token er within it will be er target time , erm real pro real progress will be this I think the feeling of that will going , come by will , will , will be a lot of ruling er in this area and maybe even start to er leave the question from er as a result and the signal to the users of our serv , of the services and erm would go out of here in a planned way and in answer to er fairly speedily and you know what or reduce the erm the aggro . |
| 11 | While it is hard-wearing and safe , rubber-covered cable has the additional benefits of being very flexible and resistant to kinking in use . |
| 12 | It 's a cynical view , he admits , but if there are few casualties , people will tolerate such action , without condoning it , even though ‘ Americans have a habit of being very clumsy , as in Grenada ’ . |
| 13 | He obtained these cells from an unattractive source , the pus on discarded surgical dressings , which had the merit , in pre-chemotherapy days , of being very readily available . |
| 14 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 15 | It has the advantages of being very precise and of reflecting the social reality of the operation of the administration of law and order . |
| 16 | As your personal tour ends and you walk back out into the invigorating mountain air , you will be left with that unmistakable impression of sheer opulence … and the feeling of being very much at home . |
| 17 | It also has an advantage of being very labour-saving at this time of year . |
| 18 | By offering reasonable work at low wages we may secure the power of being very strict with the loafer or confirmed pauper . ’ |
| 19 | I , I do n't often agree with Jim about anything , but I really do agree with him about this , that there has to be some clear guidelines , I think , as to how these are fixed , they are not going be have the potential of being very unfair to people because people operate in different ways in different areas and I would suggest that it would be a good idea if this community were to ask for erm guidelines to be drafted for this committee to agree so that there is a more even fair , laid down procedure for dealing with the cases coming before the panel . |
| 20 | Tardets has a good , arcaded square but an air of being very run-down , as if no one now loved it . |
| 21 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 22 | Is there a family history of being very tall ? |
| 23 | Apart from the concern about CFCs destroying ozone in the stratosphere , CFCs pose the problem of being very efficient greenhouse gases . |
| 24 | It strings a series of acceptably lucky events ( random mutations ) together in a nonrandom sequence so that , at the end of the sequence , the finished product carries the illusion of being very very lucky indeed , far too improbable to have come about by chance alone , even given a timespan millions of times longer than the age of the universe so far . |
| 25 | Feelings she 'd believed anaesthetised had given evidence of being very much awake . |
| 26 | There had been earlier criticism in the USA that Japan had failed to send either combat or medical personnel to the Gulf , and US treasury officials had publicly accused Japan of being very slow in sending its promised financial aid . |
| 27 | Some of the direction is rather nifty and it 's also go the benefit of being very well shot , but then there 's a such a hell of a lot of the other type of shooting going on here it 's pretty difficult to notice . |
| 28 | Despite being very nicely presented in a slip binder with well printed manuals , shame they did n't follow the ‘ industry standard ’ for size , the first thing the new user sees is a license agreement that effectively disclaims all responsibility for anything . |
| 29 | Despite being very close to an agreement with NALGO it was disappointing for the Special Finance Committee held on the 7 October 1992 to learn that the latest package offer had been rejected and to find that a number of employees had taken industrial action to lobby the meeting . |
| 30 | If the geological community , which , despite being very well supplied with bibliographical data on research theses , only makes direct use of one quarter of such works , then it is likely that in other subject areas which are less well supported bibliographically , levels of thesis use will be even lower . |