Example sentences of "[conj] be very " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that you drag up a documents giving directions about how you wish to be treated if later on you can not make your wishes known because you have suffered a serious accident or are very ill . |
| 2 | Special offers fall into two main categories : those which are really free giveaways or are very cheap indeed and those which offer relatively expensive items at a discount . |
| 3 | In fact , this can hardly be done in many cases because the animals concerned are nocturnal or are very well camouflaged ; but the stiffly mounted corpse on its studio stump , so characteristic of the eighteenth century , soon came to look dated . |
| 4 | This is certainly possible , but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have , or are very near to , a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature . |
| 5 | Rapid visualization of mineral distribution , where minerals have closely similar optical properties or are very fine-grained . |
| 6 | When the wind gusts , rotors need either to flex or be very strong . |
| 7 | They may be very irritable with the child , have difficulty distracting the child , or be very responsive and encourage repeated interruptions . |
| 8 | You would have to eat a very poor diet , lose a lot of weight , or be very ill for any serious deficiency to occur . |
| 9 | Many of my envelopes came back ‘ Return to Sender ’ , and it was clear that most members had died or were very elderly . |
| 10 | Bert and Jasper slept , or were very silent , in their respective rooms . |
| 11 | Of course in local industry here we 're very strong , or were very strong in the traditional electromechanical teleprinter field , and erm they have now moved into microelectronic solutions for such things and indeed , again , they 're very strong in local industry here , and they 're finding that the flexibility offered by using a microcomputer , not to mention the reliability and so on , is again greatly enhanced by the use the microcomputer rather than traditional movement of keys through bars and so on through to the heads , say , of the device . |
| 12 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 13 | These results strongly suggest that NO is , or is very closely associated with , the non-adrenergic , non-cholinergic neurotransmitter mediating neurogenic relaxation of the human internal anal sphincter . |
| 14 | Well , she said it was n't quite ready for inspection , but I have seen some work that is in progress that is now very much in her own style : some night forest scenes that are very striking , one very calm , two very anguished . |
| 15 | David hardly paints for sale any more — it 's opera , camera , fax and camcord , which hardly helps me pay my rent , and Frank Stella , whose work I admire more than anyone 's , makes these enormous aluminium , what I call floor reliefs , that are very hard to sell . |
| 16 | Conditions , then , were in some respects similar to those of today ; in some respects different , but in ways that do not matter ; and in other respects different in ways that are very significant indeed . |
| 17 | Large floating plants like the Sargassum ( left ) can live only in seas that are very calm , notably in the Sargasso , north of the Caribbean . |
| 18 | ‘ Those are the areas that are very often penetrated and therefore serious complications result , ’ he said . |
| 19 | After all , the national interests of donors and the multilateral agencies they finance would be much better served by other projects than soil conservation which is a difficult , diffuse and problematic area for foreign aid with goals that are very long term and difficult to achieve . |
| 20 | It 's been extraordinary because it 's really taken off , and it does deal with a lot of issues that are very pertinent to elderly people 's lives . ’ |
| 21 | Nevertheless , there are aspects of the running of collective bureaux that are very relevant to those bureaux who wish to make some alterations to the strict division of tasks . |
| 22 | There are relatively few countries at the top of the spectrum : uncomfortably many have per capita incomes that are very low indeed . |
| 23 | It has to be places that are very flat and you have to be so careful . |
| 24 | These rearrangements collect antibody genes from segments of DNA that are very widely separated on different chromosomes . |
| 25 | Parental care is often carried out for many weeks with no harm coming to the young , but you occasionally get a pair that are very prolific and , in their need to spawn they will often eat their previous brood . |
| 26 | The next example ( fig 4 ) features some double stops that are very effectively ‘ thickened up ’ by the addition of open high E string pedal tones . |
| 27 | Some countries that are very much exercised about the alien danger actually have very little immigration . |
| 28 | What you get from our work is small things that are very important in becoming part of your life . |
| 29 | Many flowers that are very popular favourites in the garden are of little use to the presser . |
| 30 | In this particular pair of designs , I have used matching leaves and similar tones for the flowers , although you could create two designs that are very different and link them together with matching frames or mounts . |