Example sentences of "[verb] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I think Carrick will win very much but at least they would be recognised as serious contenders . |
| 2 | People at all levels of the organization can accomplish very much more than they are asked to under contemporary conventions . |
| 3 | The magistrate told Long : ‘ You put yourself in charge of a lethal weapon and posed very grave dangers to innocent members of the public . ’ |
| 4 | Former England captain Chris Cowdrey was more critical , saying : ‘ Keith Fletcher said before the tour that he thought India posed very few problems . |
| 5 | Now two groups have reported very high yield synthesis and separations of fullerenes ( see D. H. Parker et al , J. Am . |
| 6 | Someone with short-term memory loss lives very much in the present and is able to enjoy what they do , even if they can not recall it a few minutes later . |
| 7 | A recent exhibition of Mills and Boon front covers over seventy-five years of publishing demonstrates that the packaging of their company image , ‘ the rose of romance ’ , has not varied very much since . |
| 8 | This is because Japanese corporations place very little emphasis on merger as a mechanism of growth or diversification of business . |
| 9 | It was far more the usual thing , women did n't go out to work very much , not after they were married . |
| 10 | He admired so many qualities in Fisher : the shrewdness about people , the grasp of practical problems , the ability to work very long hours , the patience under abuse from the press , the humility which went with a cocksureness that was not arrogance . |
| 11 | I loved your christmas centrefold but I was a little concerned that Pippin and PJ might have had to work very hard to get that shot . |
| 12 | With real low bass , speakers have to work very hard to produce enough of the relevant frequency to make the signal audible . |
| 13 | I had to work very hard to satisfy him . |
| 14 | Well we 'll have to consider that along with land Messrs , cos we think it 's a brilliant site with good road access and we want to work very hard with the people that put the deal together . |
| 15 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 16 | We are going to have to work very hard to be ready in time . ’ |
| 17 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 18 | The , er , credit to that goes to the chairman and chief executive and the executive directors and they are responsible for the business and it is right , in my view , that they should be rewarded for it and encouraged to take risks to work very hard on our behalf to ensure that that growth continues er , er , that benefits the , er , company , it benefits the country it benefits the er ergo , people who are working for it , it is not inflationary because we are looking at productivity and the productivity in the company has increased significantly . |
| 19 | I mean we have to work very hard in our own er relationship we 've had our ups and downs we 've gone through many difficult times like unemployment and even homelessness and you know we we 've gone through it but when you make your promises you say you 'll stay together for richer for poorer in sickness and in health and so on . |
| 20 | People are gon na have to work very hard to repair that damage . |
| 21 | They seem to work very hard on these . |
| 22 | I 've always had to work very hard but at the end of the day I 'm , I 'm self-satisfied because I 'm I 'm doing what I want to do . |
| 23 | Well we 'll just have to work very hard tomorrow , t is |
| 24 | Although the proportion of deliberate self-poisoning or self-injury patients who require psychiatric inpatient care is fairly small , this group is of special importance because it includes those most likely to have serious psychiatric disorders , those at special risk of suicide or further attempts , and some patients who pose very difficult management problems . |
| 25 | Where room is limited , many top fruits can be trained as cordons , espaliers or fans against walls and fences , and occupy very little ground area . |
| 26 | ‘ I want very much to establish two comic homosexual characters and they can revolve around a figure of the establishment like a Richard Dimbleby character — decency , Establishment values . ’ |
| 27 | So much so that I want very much to make love to you again . |
| 28 | Emphasising these ‘ good housekeeping ’ roles for opiates , Huda Akil. a professor of psychiatry at Michigan , said ‘ People want very glamorous jobs for this system to do . |
| 29 | What we say will count very little if we look wrong to the particular group or individual to whom we are talking . |
| 30 | But one inventor thinks he has the answer — a building material made of straw that can withstand very high temperatures . |