Example sentences of "[adj] very [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They 'd lost , he said , 2 very talented young ladies . |
2 | Within 5 mins their keeper had made 2 very good ( OK excellent ) saves . |
3 | Logitech predicts a life span of between six months and a year.Overall , I liked the MouseMan Cordless very much . |
4 | ‘ How would you like it ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ if we made some very cautious experiments to see just how much you can move and push ? ’ |
5 | There is without a shadow of doubt some very nasty gossip about me now sludging its filthy way through the intestines of the society I know and have come to despise . |
6 | By contrast , a single old woman who lived in ‘ some very nasty flats in a very poor street ’ seemed to be ‘ rather a grubby woman . |
7 | Before I fell out with your father , he told me some very nasty stories about the way you behaved at home ! |
8 | They 've apparently done some very nasty things , so the free world has decided to send Black Hornet in to kick some enemy backside . |
9 | ‘ There are evidently some very nasty people in this little town of yours , ’ he said reflectively . |
10 | ON A rugged hill track overlooking the former car plant at Linwood , Scottish motoring journalists turned out in force last week to put the latest version of a motoring legend through its paces over some very nasty terrain . |
11 | Alyssia hesitantly walked in , and almost immediately saw her friend by the cash register , looking with interest at a couple of oldish women who had put on some very garish dresses and were inspecting themselves in the mirror . |
12 | This is connected to questions about why some people are born with poor health and touches on some very deep aspects of philosophy which I will not attempt to discuss in this book . |
13 | ‘ They have some brackish wells , and some very deep ones . |
14 | According to soundings made in the surrounding ocean , there are some very deep ocean trenches in the sea around the island . |
15 | It touches some very deep questions as to what we are as people , and how we react to a variety of inner desires and temptations . |
16 | It is as if the company in some very deep way has been unable to acknowledge that customers even have choices . |
17 | But there are some very practical reasons for making the effort . |
18 | He stated that the proposals made by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , on June 20 for a gradualist approach to EMU via the introduction of a parallel currency , the " hard ecu " , contained some very practical elements and that these might be taken more seriously if the UK were to demonstrate a full commitment to EMU . |
19 | It was the closure of a good , old style joinery firm and there were some very good machines to be had . |
20 | ‘ Beneath the can of worms there are some very good businesses . ’ |
21 | There are some very good photographs and some intriguing snippets of information — Michael Bowyer tells how the Operational Requirement that led to the Hampden and Wellington specified that the aircraft should have folding wings for hangar storage ! |
22 | The man they follow was a fine storyteller himself by all accounts — and there is no question they have some very good basic material . ’ |
23 | There are some very good used examples to be had . |
24 | Mr Frederick Garnet , 81 , said : ‘ The last thing she said to us before she left was that she would have some very good news for the family when she came home . |
25 | The observers met some very good teachers who were working in very unsympathetic conditions within a school , and other teachers who were muddled in their thinking about aims , and yet others who did not know how to bring any educational or artistic guts to the drama lesson . |
26 | He was very much loved by his owner Gordon ( who was tragically to die quite young ) but Hasso 's blood was to produce some very good animals , not only in the UK but also in Australia , America and Canada . |
27 | The breed in Sweden was off to a tremendous start and from this position of strength , Swedish people have produced over the years some very good Rottweilers . |
28 | There are some very good ones around . |
29 | On the finance and legal side we have had some very good women at Channel 4 : Janet Walker , for example , now , I think , at Granada ; Kate Wilson , who was a lawyer and is now a senior lawyer . |
30 | Elsewhere there is some very good singing , especially from the excellent Marina of Stevka Mineva , the more than usually listenable Grigory of Michail Svetlev , and Boris Martinovich 's splendidly sinister Rangoni . |