Example sentences of "[adv] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Banks was suddenly a very expensive albatross around Paul Lexington 's neck . |
| 2 | The DCSL ( who , interestingly enough , was an active member of the library committee throughout the period of the project ) reports its beginnings in : what was very much a very small group in the school … a certain group of people who were keen for something like this to happen … |
| 3 | Tamo ash is apparently a very rare , highly figured wood found only in a small region of Japan . |
| 4 | Course , as Derek says , his mate is basically a very decent bloke . |
| 5 | It 's basically a very powerful anaesthetic . |
| 6 | I 'm basically a very private person , but I 'd probably tell Pete things that I would n't tell anyone else . |
| 7 | The lottery business is basically a very very small business with limited competition , and for a state the size of California it makes it very difficult to have large competition because only a certain number of companies can actually put in a system of this size . |
| 8 | Some posts exist attached to a particular secondary school , especially a very large comprehensive , but most A-V technicians are appointed to a local authority centre , or work in further or higher education . |
| 9 | It has annually a very gay season during the days of the Highland games , when balls are held . |
| 10 | ‘ John is naturally a very good-humoured , high-spirited person to be with . |
| 11 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 12 | I think one of the main reasons why we would support the inclusion of a Policy erm E two in the structure plan is because North Yorkshire is adamantly a very rural area and therefore whatever happened in that rural area must be a strategic issue . |
| 13 | Firstly , it is likely that the NHS will survive , albeit in perhaps a very different shape in 2000 to that in 1990 . |
| 14 | Sometimes if there was a certain amount of urgency due to bad weather , or perhaps a very important operation , the observations were collected over the telephone link-up , with the Met Officer in charge listening in . |
| 15 | The capacity of a few — perhaps a very few — people to inflict extinction on us , will gradually extend to more and more small groups of human beings , all of whom are liable to exhibit the self-aggrandisement and irrationality which have led to so much unnecessary suffering in the history of our species . |
| 16 | If you can not help , there will be difficulty and trouble for one of the most important families in Europe — and perhaps a very big scandal . |
| 17 | Erm Peter , North Yorkshire , I think it 's appropriately addressed there and I think there are so many elements of it that er I think you w you would end up with perhaps a very long explanatory section . |
| 18 | At the same time , however , it allows the hearer to derive a range of contextual effects — perhaps a very wide range of weak implicatures — which would not have been derived from the original formulation . |
| 19 | Which is not perhaps a very good use of time . |
| 20 | It was obviously a very clever song but it was n't until we were recording it and filming it down at Greenwich Studios , that we realised its potential because . |
| 21 | Food preferences are obviously a very individual matter . |
| 22 | It is obviously a very exciting project for us though , and it will allow Kylie to show just how much she has developed over the past three years . |
| 23 | Gooch recalled playing against Waqar at Chelmsford : ‘ The first impression was that he seemed to have a very long run-up but he is obviously a very fine fast bowler with the ability to swing , particularly the old ball . ’ |
| 24 | It is obviously a very complex subject , especially the various methods of foreign exchange risk cover which are available to traders and investors . |
| 25 | It was obviously a very successful practice , providing instant vascular and general surgery on an outpatient level . |
| 26 | She was obviously a very well-educated woman . |
| 27 | ‘ You 're obviously a very good friend , Mrs … ? ’ |
| 28 | Although obviously a very experienced and skilful pilot , David Mason has not forgotten what it is like to be a raw student , and there is a streak of dry humour in his observations of each stage of the training process . |
| 29 | It is obviously a very old crime , although this was not obvious in 1862 . |
| 30 | And erm they had a , obviously a very productive meeting and , and it , they did n't say a lot about it but overall they said that really Roger and Helen now had a much better understanding of the direction we wanted to go in in the future and were pretty supportive of it really . |