Example sentences of "[noun sg] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you see I have to have the telly very quiet and last night , ah ! |
| 2 | They may be unresponsive to ministerial suggestions , and they may make this opposition very clear through the local authority associations . |
| 3 | The Moots and the Law Society made the Department very lively . |
| 4 | Caffeine p32/ A stimulant found in tea , coffee and cocoa Candied Peel p61 Canned fish , types of p108 Cannellini Bean & Tuna Fish Salad p24 Capers p45/ The pickled , unopened flower buds of the caper plant Carbonnade of Beef p17 Cebiche p106 Charcuterie/ A general term describing cured meats and other meat products Cheese & Pineapple Dip p116 Cheese , Fresh p65/ Very young cheeses , eaten less than one month old . |
| 5 | Having twin and matched secondary windings clearly makes a mains transformer very versatile , but it also means that you have to be rather more careful when wiring it up . |
| 6 | A lot of people find religion very artificial and er |
| 7 | Seen from the side , they are at first glance very similar indeed . |
| 8 | You 've pitched the melody very high … |
| 9 | This is illustrated in Fig. 3.17 , with digestion very slight in the long-eared owl sample ( Fig. 3.17 C , D ) and slightly more advanced in the short-eared owl sample ( Fig. 3.17 F , G ) . |
| 10 | Very poor , one side margins , the other side very little , squashed up to the top of the page , and as somebody said , there is T. |
| 11 | No matter how often you tell 'em you have n't got this infant in a laboratory cage , for example , they 'll still believe that 's where he is , with a chain round his neck very likely . |
| 12 | In most housing a centre light fitting , for example , goes unquestioned , although people would find even daylight very harsh and glaring if it poured from the centre of the sky all day . |
| 13 | It even has hooliganism and violence and so must run football very close to being an alternative religion . |
| 14 | ‘ And the fact that he never got a kick at Maine Road , and the sort of game he watched today , makes English football very attractive to him . |
| 15 | The following morning the local paper headlined ‘ Gays Lead Council a Lively Dance ’ , which made the mayor very angry indeed . |
| 16 | There 's a technique in nuclear physics , called neutron activation , which allows you to measure quantities of trace very small quantities of particular elements in materials and it 's been applied to looking at the concentration of arsenic in Napoleon 's hair , and you find that there are particular periods in his life when he got dosed with arsenic_ one 's not quite sure how — and at those particular times he was erm very ill ; it correlates very well with the historical evidence . |
| 17 | I can also report to congress that at last there are some signs at long last of some kind of recovery in the building materials industry very early days yet but some companies are actually beginning to go back to full-time working and in one or two cases are actually starting to take on additional , er , employees . |
| 18 | Citizen protest is making the whole industry very cagey ; governments are reluctant to allow planning permission or import licences . |
| 19 | There are two forms of inequality related to occupational pensions which also serve to disadvantage very elderly women , especially widows . |
| 20 | Nor did it allow families to get the car very close to the house as they preferred to do . |
| 21 | But I ca n't sit in the car very long . |
| 22 | He stared down at her for a long moment , his mouth very close to her own . |
| 23 | Quite suddenly , out of the blue , really he brought his mouth very close to hers , and kissed her gently and tenderly . |
| 24 | Englishmen , I know , always like their tea very strong . ’ |
| 25 | They drank their tea very dark and all put much sugar into it . |
| 26 | This has made the profitability of investment very important . |
| 27 | So this is the same idea and if there 's a star Something that I did see a wee while ago , I saw a f a light very close down to the horizon and I said I 've never seen a star so bright way down there . |
| 28 | Metron is playing its card very close to its chest and wo n't say much about the software other than it does n't emphasise regressive testing and will run on multithreaded operating systems . |
| 29 | The plaintiffs , not finding this submission very attractive , now appeal . |
| 30 | Kuhn stated the idea boldly , making paradigms very general and unitary and making their collapse very sudden and complete . |