Example sentences of "[adv] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Civic Society was naturally very pleased t that we the council turned down the application on the National Power site . |
| 2 | The Ipswich job was naturally very hush-hush , so I am unable to go into details until my autobiography is published by HMSO in 1999 . |
| 3 | ‘ She is naturally very unwell , and we are still attempting to discover if she was raped . ’ |
| 4 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We are naturally very disappointed to hear of Mrs Rorstad 's problems and her complaint will be investigated . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm naturally very tidy . |
| 6 | ‘ We 're naturally very upset , ’ she said at their converted barn home in Hawkhurst , Kent . |
| 7 | The social worker was present throughout this meeting in which Mrs J. was naturally very upset . |
| 8 | Forty-eight were used in one production and of these the Eight Extraordinary Dancers did their own specialities which were naturally very juvenile : the Pony Trot , the Bells and the Xylophone . |
| 9 | For many years afterwards I was naturally very wary of any dog and , although I soon learnt not to run away , as this would only make them run after me , I never willingly approached them . |
| 10 | ‘ Mother was naturally very distressed . ’ |
| 11 | Bourgeois Europe was or grew full of more or less informal systems for protection or mutual advancement , old-boy networks , or mafias ( ‘ friends of friends ’ ) , among which those arising from common attendance at the same educational institutions were naturally very important , especially the institutions of higher learning , which produced national rather than merely local linkages . |
| 12 | They can be naturally very high in Iodine and can cause problems , particularly in foals . |
| 13 | He has great timing and is naturally very funny but he was always a gentleman and very professional as well . ’ |
| 14 | Along the roads of Provence the tall McDonalds-like chain shop signs are springing up everywhere and prices are naturally very competitive . |
| 15 | Cuvier 's counterpart in Britain was a much more prosaic son of the Industrial Revolution — William Smith — whose conclusions were basically very similar but who was far too much a practical man to want to theorise about it . |
| 16 | Herod and all bullies everywhere are basically very weak people who get tough partly to try to hide their weakness . |
| 17 | " Andrew is basically very shy . |
| 18 | Although their effects are more extensive , Plinian eruptions are not basically very different qualitatively from the Vesuvian type . |
| 19 | He goes on a bit but he 's basically very good-hearted and kind . |
| 20 | Other naturalistic views , Marxist and some which indeed call themselves ‘ evolutionary ’ , have often proclaimed themselves free from any such picture , but it is basically very hard for them to avoid some appeal to an implicit teleology , an order in relation to which there would be an existence that would satisfy all the most basic human needs at once . |
| 21 | The noise dropped to something merely very loud and then , very quickly , disappeared . |
| 22 | The vulnerability of ICBMs is not insoluble , merely very expensive to solve . |
| 23 | There , orphans live in very deprived conditions . |
| 24 | There , orphans live in very deprived conditions . |
| 25 | The source of energy for a muscle contraction is Adenosine Triphosphate ( A.T.P. ) and this occurs in very small amounts in human muscle . |
| 26 | Most pesticides are lethal to earthworms on or near the surface , and some can kill in very small concentrations to a great depth . |
| 27 | If they compromise in very small amounts they will become a stronger and bigger band . |
| 28 | This patient was sensitive to yeast and reacted to it in very small amounts , so that she produced a positive reaction even with the minute quantities that they used for testing . |
| 29 | Such species seem to live in very small pools of water which almost dry up during the summer season , and only the fry survive . |
| 30 | Such work was often ‘ signed ’ with the binder 's ticket or , after about 1830 , with the name stamped in very small letters on the inside edge of the front or back cover . |