Example sentences of "very [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good Man , very jolly decent nice Man . |
| 2 | But I saw judgement in your face , and it shattered me , precisely because I know I must seem to deserve the very worst that anyone could imagine . |
| 3 | Imagine the very worst that can happen at the interview — you fall over , give all the wrong answers , blush and become tongue-tied , antagonize the interviewer , do everything so badly you patently have not got a hope of getting the job . |
| 4 | Used to have to be very rather experienced in them days to do this here net mending . |
| 5 | But his daughter proves to have been very properly ill-at-ease among its dazzling lights , long corridors , great staircases and phalanxes of ladies ' maids ; that his second wife should revel in them is an indication of her moral inferiority . |
| 6 | This course is very widely available and it is pitched at the right level for the medical teacher . |
| 7 | There is limited choice for the national advertiser in cinema — 60 seconds is more or less standard , though 30-second spots are used ; in magazines full pages , DPSs , halves and quarters ; in newspapers full pages , and , depending on whether the paper is broadsheet or tabloid , 35 cm × 6 , 25 cm × 4 , 15 cm × 2 are very widely used sizes : on TV , 30-second spots dominate , with 20-second and 10-second spots becoming more popular ; in posters , 4-sheets are still most common . |
| 8 | This speeds request handling but greatly increases the work area size needed , particularly if a very widely used descriptor is the first to be cited in the retrieval request . |
| 9 | In this classification Morgan , and Engels after him , were following a very widely accepted schema of their time which , as we have seen , had already been used , albeit somewhat differently , by Marx . |
| 10 | Algorithms of this sort are very widely applicable . |
| 11 | There is a message from Cardinal Hume , and there are five definitions of the word ‘ feminisim ’ by five contributors of very widely different opinions . |
| 12 | Other synthetic polymers are chemically rather more complicated but , elastically , apparently not very widely different . |
| 13 | I do n't know whether he got it from here , or from another source , but it 's very strikingly similar . |
| 14 | Not very strikingly gifted , but musical . |
| 15 | With the bridge pickup in expander mode the RD is more than capable of producing some very aurally uncomfortable noises . |
| 16 | What limits would be placed , and Kennedy was very acutely conscious of the big mistake that Truman had made in Korea in , in fact , seeking to extend the intervention and bringing China into the war under no circumstances must China be allowed to take that step in the case of Indo-China . |
| 17 | Their trick is to have a very loosely connected skin , so free from the underlying tissue that a sudden gripping pressure can break it away , leaving the killer with only a mouthful of the instantly shed skin . |
| 18 | I should use that word , that was used very loosely that word cheap . |
| 19 | At any given moment our mind is wandering into the future or into the past ; we are very rarely present in the here and now . |
| 20 | It is a very stringent rule ; it is very rarely necessary to consider transitions involving more than one electron in interpreting the electronic spectra of inorganic species . |
| 21 | Gloucestershire Ambulance Service has begun its own investigation , but points out that its drivers are trained to the highest standards and are very rarely involved in accidents . |
| 22 | According to a DCDA telephone survey four places in Stockton are said to be very rarely vacant and 21 on North Tyneside , due to be ready from April , are already subject to a long waiting list . |
| 23 | A literal rendering of an idiom is very rarely capable of serving as even an approximate translation ; it is most likely to be either uninterpretable , or quite unrelated in meaning to the original expression . |
| 24 | Prisoners offered the choice very rarely preferred death to the colonies but , because they were essentially treated in the same way as indentured servants , they could only go to America if a merchant was willing to take them on the basis of a calculation that he could sell their services at the other end . |
| 25 | This is very rarely successful . |
| 26 | This is very rarely successful . |
| 27 | By contrast , open-chest compression after prolonged closed-chest compression is very rarely successful and this method should be attempted only in highly selected patients in hospital . |
| 28 | It is very rarely sufficient just to put the product on the table and expect the photographer to get on with photographing it . |
| 29 | The theme of sex fiend is very rarely evident in these cases . |
| 30 | Very rarely 6 |