Example sentences of "is very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that I have also fitted 750 x 16 SAT tyres the vehicle is very sluggish , I am told the solution would be to change the diffs , but to which ones ? |
| 2 | Because the flow stress of glass is very high at room temperature and because glass is very susceptible to fracture by the spread of cracks , glass , and materials like it , nearly always fracture in the familiar brittle manner and we find it difficult to imagine anything different happening . |
| 3 | The Baltic , being a mainly stagnant sea , is very susceptible to the accumulative effects of pollution . |
| 4 | The delays caused by such action can have considerable impact on services because the integrated railway timetable is very susceptible to disruption . |
| 5 | there 's the farmland below the castle you know going towards erm Felixstowe that way , they say the land down there , the farm , that low-lying farmland is very susceptible to flooding and the coast is being eroded |
| 6 | For instance , Japan 's service sector is very inflationary , but Japan is able to keep down its general rate of inflation because its manufacturing sector is so large and efficient . |
| 7 | At 8.5d.p.c. ( 20 h after treatment with retinoic acid ) in both treated and control embryos post-otic domains of expression regress posteriorly , but in treated embryos the pre-otic domain is very broad and extends from r4 into the midbrain ( Fig. 1 b , b' ) . |
| 8 | However , the class of private companies is very broad ; a private company under the Companies Act 1985 is any company which is not a public company and which consists of at least two members . |
| 9 | But this is very broad headings is n't it . |
| 10 | Its scope is very broad , ranging from research which simulates human mental activities such as perception , natural language interpretation and mathematical reasoning , to projects which seek to design intelligent machines , such as robots for deep sea mineral exploration , and consultation programs for diagnosing diseases . |
| 11 | There is something in this pattern of behaviour that is very reminiscent of some addictive or compulsive behaviours . |
| 12 | The technique is very reminiscent of that used by the amphibians ' far distant and antique cousin , the lungfish . |
| 13 | The mental atmosphere of Joseph 's reforms — idealism , effort and self-sacrifice combined with dogmatism , intolerance and a humourless lack of any sense of proportion — is very reminiscent of many aspects of the French Revolution . |
| 14 | The babe , emanating from life itself , is the ultimate symbol of creativity , and the description of this small-scale version of unconscious creation is very reminiscent of the description of the ‘ chasm ’ in ‘ Kubla Khan ’ : |
| 15 | However , the number they make is very model-dependent , so that agreement with observation is hardly a confirmation of the grand unified theories . |
| 16 | Really , this place is very squalid , Mrs Lenham , if you do n't mind my saying so . ’ |
| 17 | Erm now this is this this is very tricky these are erm mm are n't they ? |
| 18 | Motor racing is very tricky . |
| 19 | Now Margarite , for instance , which is another kind of mica , quite similar to Muscovite except that it has twice the electrical charge across its planes of cleavage , has negligible strength and is very brittle . |
| 20 | Cast iron is very brittle . |
| 21 | Therefore the impact is very violent . |
| 22 | The list is very long ! |
| 23 | Not only is it a move into a realm where the distinction between life and death seems , as in ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , to have broken down , it is also a crossing to the world of the ‘ cannibal isle ’ which is revealed as only another version of the life left behind , and where the realization that ‘ Life is very long ’ is not escaped from , but reinforced . |
| 24 | ’ At the same time as this Conrad work was in his head , Eliot received anthropological proof that ‘ Life is very long ’ for ‘ civilized ’ people and for ‘ savages ’ alike in an age of degeneration , and that if the savage revealed a level of horror hidden in city life , then similarly civilized man might corrupt the savage . |
| 25 | They 're quite pricey — £13 and £8 , respectively — but , unless your hair is very long , there 's enough for several applications |
| 26 | ‘ Four years is very long in his , ma'am . ’ |
| 27 | If you find that the list of ‘ do n't likes ’ is very long and there is nothing on the other side to counteract it , you are not telling the truth . |
| 28 | The neck of the Perk is very long . |
| 29 | The list of recipient church projects is very long , ranging from refurbishment of church buildings to small revenue grants to enable the establishment of local good neighbour ( community care ) schemes . |
| 30 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |