Example sentences of "[not/n't] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK is not very entrepreneurial . |
| 2 | The one sentence that had pleased me in her unfastidious and not very delicate letter was the last of all — that simple ‘ Write care of Ann . ’ |
| 3 | But it 's not very delicate movement like a fox , it 's more sort of jerky . |
| 4 | Others are not reported because of embarrassment or fear on the part of the victim ( rape , domestic assaults ) , or because he or she thinks that there is little the police can do about it ( vandalism , shoplifting ) , or that the offence is not very serious anyway , or that there is no unwilling victim ( drug abuse , soliciting , under-age sex ) . |
| 5 | Not very serious , the plant grows on unharmed , new growth soon takes over , and the damaged foliage , while a little unsightly , is eventually cleared away by dead-heading and cutting back . |
| 6 | A very common error , and not very serious . |
| 7 | It 's not very serious . |
| 8 | In Take a girl like you a great sentence falls like the dew from heaven during one of the scenes in Amis when a terminally drunk man endures a sexual turmoil and fiasco , is stunned by a stunning but not very nice girl . |
| 9 | It 's not very nice , is it ? ’ |
| 10 | It 's not very nice , leaving it on there , is it ? |
| 11 | If that fails to dissuade you , you will be told that it is not very nice : it is frightening and ghoulish . |
| 12 | The food was not very nice ; the regiment of cutlery ranged either side of her plate took any appetite away . |
| 13 | It was not very nice . ’ |
| 14 | In fact I was n't particularly anxious , although my diary is full of the usual teenage moans and groans about the impossibility of absorbing any more information , and the exams themselves are described as ‘ foul ’ , ‘ really foul ’ , or , at best , ‘ not very nice ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ I hate to say it , Uncle Alfred , but some of the things they said were not very nice at all — starving , poison , ambush and attack . ’ |
| 16 | One concerned player said last night : ‘ It 's not very nice but it 's an ongoing thing and we know the club has n't got any money . ’ |
| 17 | They always choose spots which sound wonderful , like beaches or haystacks or something , which in real life are extremely uncomfortable and not very nice to be in at all . |
| 18 | ‘ But it 's not very nice to take a convicted criminal into your home and then to have him tell you that you 're of little consequence . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That 's not very nice , Mickey . |
| 20 | Not very nice for Mrs Wyatt , or Mme Wyatt as some people call her because she was French originally . |
| 21 | I remember in my teens being determined to do something which was not very nice , turning to her for permission and her saying " Well , I would n't do that — but I think you are old enough to decide for yourself , " and suddenly all the joy in the plan faded away and I did n't do it . |
| 22 | It 's not very nice to wear them because you get that is the end product . |
| 23 | if she does n't get a job , I hope she does n't get a job , that 's not very nice thing to say , she 's so good , so |
| 24 | She cooked meals , they both ate them , though often the meals were not very nice . |
| 25 | To take advantage of a moment like that , well , it 's not very nice , is it ? ’ |
| 26 | It 's not very nice to do that ! |
| 27 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 28 | When I 've gone to crown court I am still petrified , that is really , really scary cos everyone in the room is hanging on your every word and if you make a mistake you start to sweat , your hands go clammy not very nice . |
| 29 | I 've never been in jail and I never wan na find out what it 's like in jail but if you actually ever go to the police station , Harlow police station , they sometimes let people up there and do tours , no one likes being left in the cell cos when the door closes it 's very very small and it 's very claustrophobic , and it 's not very nice . |
| 30 | And even in just the police station , in the small holding cells they have , it 's not very nice . |