Example sentences of "very [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 very vigorously explained his view that er you you can only inset for the purposes of E Ten .
2 ATF1 interacts with P100 but only very weakly compared with CREB ( figure 6B , compare lanes 1 and 2 ( which contain two different extracts ) with lanes 3 and 4 ) .
3 Subjective risk ratings , surprisingly , were only very weakly related to the objective risk of accident as assessed by the actual number of accidents divided by the average traffic flow .
4 So whether we are considering the current practice of representation in relation to individual representatives , or in relation to parties and those who vote for them , it is clear that popular control and accountability are at best very weakly embodied in that practice .
5 The schools are very inadequately provided with text books , so , as we are able to buy them , we give tutorials to the teachers on how to use them with pupils .
6 … a dreadful distress prevailing and consequent depression … the people are working for a very pittance — 5000 persons on the poor book in Frome — very inadequately relieved
7 There is nothing wrong with any of these aspects ; practice in reading and the development of the habit of reading is a vitally important part of all education , and the Library Association very properly made representations on this score to the Bullock Committee .
8 As its prospectus very properly pointed out , the subsidiary Crane Engineering Ltd was in receivership , but this fact was not pointed out to investors by Eyas dealers .
9 Both he and his daughter seemed diminished : they had stepped out of their class , allowed themselves to imagine things and been very properly put in their place .
10 Today 's chefs have very properly outlawed that preliminary blanching which spelled ruin to so many vegetables — of course there are still those such as celeriac and turnips which may need it — and one of their most fiercely held tenets concerns the brief cooking of fish , in particular of the fragile scallop .
11 The second , the Green movement , is a very widely based and variegated collection of individuals and groups that includes those on the fringes of the global capitalist system as well as some who are fundamentally opposed to it , mainly from the libertarian left but also from the authoritarian right .
12 This view of the decade is now very widely accepted , and with reason : political and other stresses at the time did encourage in many quarters a rejection of modernism in favour of documentary , realistic forms more obviously attuned to the contemporary crisis .
13 It was also strengthened by the assumption , inherited from the Middle Ages and still very widely accepted , that the relationship between a ruler and his subjects was analogous to that of father and children .
14 The case has been made and the case has been very widely accepted . ’
15 The standard hypertonic UK-ORS has already been replaced by the hypotonic monomer solution HYPO-ORS in the British National Formulary but the World Health Organisation understandably remains cautious about modifying what has been a highly successful and very widely tested remedy .
16 Irrespective of the fact that many , perhaps most of these jobs are low paid , dirty ( even the gleaming electronics industry is on the defensive against charges of health and safety problems for its workforce ) and monotonous , they are very widely sought after and they carry high prestige .
17 These rearrangements collect antibody genes from segments of DNA that are very widely separated on different chromosomes .
18 It has been very widely noted by careful editors such as Hall ( 1920 ) , and ( although the atlas map shows some West Midland distribution ) it seems in the early part of the period to be most common in texts originating in the East Midlands , East Anglia and the South .
19 However , X is very widely supported , and is associated with the Unix operating system and the move to open standards in the IT industry .
20 Monarchy also appealed because it was the logical development of a hierarchical view of the universe which might be waning but which was still immensely strong and very widely understood .
21 The content and implications of this document have been very widely analysed and debated as has the Tanzanian reaction to it , but a few short passages need perhaps to be quoted yet again if only to underline the very fundamental challenges it poses for curriculum planners .
22 It is certainly very widely misunderstood .
23 It seems to me quite certain that , if for four centuries there had been a very widely extended franchise and a very large elected body in this country , there would have been no reformation of religion , no change of dynasty , no toleration of Dissent , not even an accurate Calendar .
24 The English were already noted for their addiction to beer — a luxury perhaps to the peasant , but a luxury very widely consumed .
25 Judging by the critical reaction to certain passages in the third of my recent Reith Lectures this dogma is very widely held to be a self-evident truth .
26 A complex society usually includes a number of microsocieties whose ways of assigning meaning to their actions are not universally nor even very widely shared in the community .
27 In individual constituencies grievances with the established political parties have to be very deeply felt , and very widely shared , to upset the normal national electoral swings .
28 In addition , the breed has been very widely exported and has played a major role in the creation or improvement of many other breeds : its influence has probably been greater than any other breed except perhaps the Friesian group and its adaptability is legendary .
29 Marx 's theory about what causes the historical process has been very widely discussed and we shall return to it again and again in this book , but even at this stage a simple account of it must be given .
30 Second messenger gated channels are very widely distributed , they 're certainly not limited to excitable tissues .
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