Example sentences of "[prep] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and to switch off and then go into role play after very strange |
| 2 | The development is about to take off , there is a promise of the electrification of the rail network link with , progress on the trunk road is now a firm promise and it 's likely that we shall have er er the trolley buses running in after very many years . |
| 3 | But it may mean that an apparent loss of context-specificity might be found only after very protracted training indeed . |
| 4 | Shepherds ' huts like this are used as a shelter during the winter and spring , when shepherds have to stay out all night in the fields , looking after very young lambs . |
| 5 | Such secondary pulses have been observed at about this time of year after very strong El Ninos in 1957 , 1956 and 1972 — but this 1982 ‘ secondary ’ would have been stronger than the ‘ primary ’ it belongs to , again raising the question ‘ why ? ’ |
| 6 | This explains why so few protons are detectible at the earth 's surface except after very major events . |
| 7 | After very unhappy schooldays at Wellington School and Cheltenham College , he went to Corpus Christi College , Cambridge . |
| 8 | The sampling of events in these two studies was not completely random ( see for comparison Brewer , 1988 ) , nonetheless the studies do suggest that although emotionally arousing circumstances can sometimes be well remembered even after very considerable delays ( c.f. Wagenaar & Groeneweg , 1990 ) it seems unlikely that actual feelings of emotional arousal at the time are either necessary or sufficient to cause dramatically enhanced memory . |
| 9 | Full and distended after very few mouthfuls |
| 10 | Lincoln Brower has shown that birds learn to avoid aposematic prey after very few ‘ trials ’ ( usually less than five ) , while Mariam Rothschild at Cambridge University has produced clear evidence that birds remember for many months to associate particular colour patterns in prey , with distasteful experiences . |
| 11 | Broad agreement has to be reached , too , on how she will be able to fit in happily with your particular routine of family life , and this can only be decided after very frank discussion of her needs and yours . |
| 12 | Without going into the question in detail , I would submit that the operation is lawful if performed by experienced practitioners after very intensive investigation of the mental condition of the patient and the conclusion that there is at least some risk of harm to the patient if surgery is not performed . |
| 13 | Brasel ( 1976 ) , in a study of fatigue , replicates Gerver 's ( 1972 ) findings with spoken interpretation , that interpreter fatigue after very short periods of interpreting ( 30 minutes ) begins to introduce an error rate which after an hour is statistically significant and unacceptable . |
| 14 | There are some reprieved murderers whom it is right to release on licence after very short periods of imprisonment ( for example , a mother who kills an imbecile child from merciful motives ) , and it would be undesirable in such cases for a court publicly to pass a sentence of imprisonment for a few months or for a year or two , and thereby to create the impression that the taking of human life may in certain circumstances be no graver a crime than theft . |
| 15 | Realistically , though , there was little prospect of the government 's making time for the introduction of such a provision , and in any event , the government has decided ‘ after very careful examination of the issues , that legislative action would not be appropriate ’ . |
| 16 | Clearly , the decision to admit a patient to hospital must be taken only after very careful consideration . |
| 17 | The Government proposes tax legislation with retrospective effect only after very careful consideration of the circumstances , according to Financial Secretary Stephen Dorrell . |
| 18 | So after very careful consideration and discussion , I and my Board colleagues decided that it was in the best interests of AEA and its employees to go ahead now . |
| 19 | Judgments in the House of Lords are always reserved , but in the much busier Court of Appeal many judgments are delivered extemporaneously after very brief deliberations . |
| 20 | Our own work and that of Trudgill ( 1986a ) has tended towards very similar conclusions . |
| 21 | Children are denigrated by adults , and as Itzin ( 1984 ) has identified this discrimination sows the seeds for later ageism towards very old people . |
| 22 | I have always found the Rottweilers in Norway to be of very stable disposition , and this is probably because the Rottweilers live as family pets , with a stable home life . |
| 23 | After a period of very stable numbers between 1985–89 , the PCC will thus have seen its workload increase by 66 per cent in only three years , a trend which shows little sign of ending . |
| 24 | As a result , by the time war was declared in 1939 MI6 had failed to establish any worthwhile network of agents in Europe and those it had were of very dubious quality , some even dishonest and fraudulent . |
| 25 | Other developments such as quarrying , opencast mining , motorways , barrages , marinas , and oil-drilling , are threatening to destroy large parts of our environment for the sake of very dubious economic gains . |
| 26 | Obviously genuine pieces , but of very dubious provenance . |
| 27 | and also , erm , she says I 've , I have n't got this awful sort of very sore , blown-out feeling , you know , and , and , and that has left her , so you see , it , i I mean God knows how long she 's had this chronic infection ! |
| 28 | Such confidence can not safely be reposed in people of very mean or low condition . |
| 29 | We now here have , in the convention of the IWC , not only a possibility to enact regulations which would make whaling more humane , but the enactment of very specific regulations which establish a precedent that the Whaling Commission is formally involved in animal welfare issues . |
| 30 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |