Example sentences of "[that] [pron] very " in BNC.

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1 One reason is that nothing very much happened between October 1963 and October 1964 in terms of high policy .
2 While it is usually difficult to hide the evidence that an accident has occurred , with an incident it can be only too easy in a large proportion of the cases to pretend that nothing very extraordinary has happened .
3 Certainly there is little danger of a minister having to share the pulpit with a dog , although I must confess that my very own canine friend has pretensions to being a biped .
4 Fate decreed therefore that my very first exposure to this unlikely world was as interpreter for the British representative ( a pleasant dairy farmer used to having a hundred cows he knew by name ) at the milk pasteurization subcommittee of the Central Agricultural Control .
5 ‘ The answer to the latter question is that I very much doubt it .
6 " I 've been wanting to tell you , Nenna , that I very much doubt whether you 're strong enough to undertake all the work you do on Grace .
7 It was a piece of work that I very much enjoyed organising and following through to completion .
8 I assure my hon. Friend that I very much look forward to visiting his constituency and to meeting some of the industrialists whose interests he energetically represents .
9 I also place it on record that I very much welcomed the Minister 's attitude in Committee .
10 Well I was very sad about them at the time and if you may remember , I did say publicly er that I very much hoped the Conservatives would think again and rejoin the Conservative Party .
11 Although this is a powerful technique , which can crack someone 's skull open , exponents of it need to be aware that its very committed position makes them vulnerable to a sweeping counter-attack .
12 The first model appeared on the catwalk , looking so glamorous , so unbelievably chic , that Sally could scarcely believe that her very own sister could be a part of this glittering performance .
13 They used to be called blue-green algae because they appeared to be close relatives of the green algae that are common in ponds , but now that their very primitive character is recognised , they are referred to as cyanophytes or simply , blue-greens .
14 Chemical engineering companies found that their very large complex expensive process plants could be controlled better by computer than by human operators .
15 All that the loyalists knew was that their very own Special Constabulary was going to be dismantled and that this had been one of NICRA 's long-standing demands .
16 It also shows that their very small holdings of sight deposits enables them to hold very small reserves of notes , coin and bankers ' balances .
17 What is perhaps most curious about the characterization of Margery after the trick has been played is that she very soon drops all reference to — and therefore seems to be portrayed as forgetting — the threat she believes the clerk to pose .
18 Thanks to all the readers who replied , and thanks for the nice things that you very often said .
19 We have learned , for example , that when you think of your University days , your department and your friends feature most frequently in your thoughts ; that you prefer the idea of reunions of your department or your contemporaries to University-wide events ; that you like the idea of the regional ‘ roadshows ’ ; and that you very much want to know where all your old friends are and what they 're up to now .
20 ‘ I would say that you very much belong here .
21 I hope that you very much enjoy your well earned rest and that Christmas is a happy time for you and your family .
22 Mr that you very much indeed for joining us on the programme this morning .
23 That you very much Mr I 've got Mr followed by Mr .
24 Medical friends have told us that one very eminent medical researcher grows so enthusiastic when he shows colour slides of stools excreted by rural Africans that comments like ‘ look — are n't they beautiful ’ fly from his lips during his lecture .
25 Does the right hon. Gentleman understand that we very much welcome his commitment to taking the path of democracy regardless of where it leads ?
26 Now it was an established custom that we very often used to go out to a strip in the desert away from the camp where we could indulge in circuits and landings to our hearts content without being related to the hour by hour flying that went on at the Base camp .
27 er we built our business by word of mouth introductions er which means that we very rarely advertise .
28 The thought came to Wexford that something very out of the way had happened .
29 As he told Fred Emery on Panorama , ‘ from the moment that decision was taken to cancel the opportunity for a collective judgement to be taken , I knew that something very wrong had happened . ’
30 The figures for deaths from leukaemia seem to back up the prediction from dose estimates that something very serious happened at Windscale in 1957 .
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