Example sentences of "be very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 2 | It has attempted to be very explicit about what it considers to be unnecessary local expenditure . |
| 3 | The grammatical and morphological information in learner 's dictionaries also tend to be very explicit . |
| 4 | The phrasing may be very individual but he will lift it and project it . |
| 5 | This will be very individual and may be important for your long term health . |
| 6 | In consequence , following Emery and Trist ( 1960 ) and Tichy ( 1981 ) , one can propose that ‘ Since Japanese firms limit their scope to primarily one basic technology , their internal culture tends to be very homogeneous ’ ( Cool and Lengnick-Hall , 1985 : 9 ) . |
| 7 | As was explained in Chapter 5 , some tropical tree species seem to be very homogeneous in their morphology over wide ranges , even including populations widely separated from others with little possibility for gene exchange . |
| 8 | Handling of the wounded tissue has to be very gentle and non-traumatic and the knot has to be placed tension-free . |
| 9 | The Bodhran , especially if played using the hand ( i.e. not using the stick ) can be very gentle and uplifting . |
| 10 | ‘ Guy can be very gentle . |
| 11 | I rather think he will be very broadminded . |
| 12 | My plans had to be very long-term at first . |
| 13 | ‘ Anyone investing in eastern Europe should realise that it 's going to be very long-term , 10 , 15 or even 20 years , ’ she says . |
| 14 | The exemption clauses in particular , by which the insurer seeks to limit his liability to the haulier , can be very extensive . |
| 15 | Although there is no speaker grille or cloth for protection , the cone does sit some six inches back from the front of the cab , so you would have to be very unlucky for anything to poke that far in through the narrow slot to do any damage . |
| 16 | ‘ It must be very unlucky to break the Virgin . |
| 17 | So , if you 've dreamed of a certain colour or pattern , you 'd be very unlucky not to find it in the Stoddard Templeton range . |
| 18 | There is a government Sanitary Committee , but doctors report members as corrupt and irresponsible and companies operating their own control mechanisms can afford to be very lax . |
| 19 | ‘ The good thing is that both boys have had full medicals since we moved to America and the predicted height for both is in the region of 6′2″ to 6′ 3″ , in which case I 'll be very thankful because they 'll be too big for competitive racing . |
| 20 | For the rest of the day all teenagers would be very grumpy and drive their parents up the wall . |
| 21 | We 'd drop old ladies off at Victoria Station and the black cab drivers used to be very grumpy with us — in fact they used to punch you very hard in the mouth . |
| 22 | Inkjet technology is also proving to be very versatile . |
| 23 | It 'll be very loud and you might get frightened . ’ |
| 24 | Factory made Lancashire cheese can be very mild , but the farmhouse varieties are wonderful . |
| 25 | Tinnitus may be very mild and happen only occasionally , present only if attention is given to it , or it may be violently disrupting and at times almost unbearable . |
| 26 | You get to tell the program which card you 're using once the full installation is done and the program has been booted — we assume that the final documentation will handle this in the customary WordPerfect manner , and be very complete on the subject . |
| 27 | His character appears to be very unimportant and innocent , but during the remainder of the book his true identity is gradually unfolded . |
| 28 | Kenner 's fantasy is being discussed in terms of the view — with which Kenner can be expected to be very familiar — that the goals of a biographically-minded criticism are in some measure fantastic . |
| 29 | Close friends and certainly married couples ought to be very familiar with the ideas and opinions held by their partner . |
| 30 | Eventually , the program will be near completion , and the people who have tested it this far will be very familiar with it . |