Example sentences of "this [is] very " in BNC.

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1 This is very interesting , ’ she said , ‘ but I 'm afraid that it is nothing more than a performance .
2 This is very noticeable with experienced pilots flying into cloud without the help of the instruments .
3 Honing your skills like this is very enjoyable and will give you confidence if you ever have to land along a very narrow line such as a pathway .
4 This is very important because a tactically-minded competitor can crowd an inexperienced opponent out of the area , picking up points without even exchanging a technique .
5 The reason for this is very simple — you ca n't see it .
6 The reason for this is very simple ; the anterior deltoid is brought into play with nearly all chest exercises and is therefore always being trained more than the other heads .
7 This is very important where there is a constant change of partners .
8 This is very astute criticism of Yeats : but more to the point is that Pound here confesses self-doubts such as he would have concealed from anyone he did not trust absolutely .
9 This is very much a generational problem .
10 This is very much the way in which the law approaches the extraction of the truth , and it is different both from the vivid imprecision of ordinary life and the intimacy of a police interrogation .
11 Although much of this is very funny , the laughter is decidedly uneasy , for death is almost always present .
12 This is very much the hybrid sound of Africa , and all the better for it .
13 This is very much what we are about in developing financial services for our cardmembers which meet their particular requirements and provide added value . ’
14 This is very difficult , however .
15 This is very popular in the country because upon the whole trade unions are unpopular , and therefore , if you can attach the consequences of your own actions ( for which you desire to transfer the blame to other people ) to somebody who is unpopular already and attribute it to him , you are almost certain to be home and dry .
16 For example , the easiest way to find your parting is to comb your hair back , then push it forwards until it parts naturally — this is very useful if you 're caught without a mirror . ’
17 This is very noticeable when the decreased amplitude of the daily rhythms of sex hormones is considered ( see p. 81 ) .
18 All this is very necessary preparation for the major exercises planned for later in the year when they will join with other battalions , Regular and TA , to practise their wartime role .
19 This is very important if your work involves many repetitive movements , or pushing , pulling , typing and gripping tools .
20 Before anybody complains that all this is very sexist and demeaning — I entirely agree .
21 I think people in Poland are losing their sense of humour and this is very dangerous . ’
22 ‘ My husband said that if we got 50 per cent back it would be something but this is very good news , ’ said Mrs Lee .
23 This is very much a product of his legal background which , in a career spanning 40 years as a lawyer , has seen him spurn a more lucrative profession to concentrate on the injusticesthat accompany bureaucracies like the Civil Service .
24 This is very different from the Common Law procedure , which will never compel , or even allow ( at that time ) , one of the parties to an action to give evidence ; but it is a procedure , and the only procedure , which is suitable for trying such questions as uses and trusts , for which no open public acts , no formal documents may be available as evidence .
25 This is very strange behaviour for a supposedly left-wing party .
26 This is very clearly exposed in the debate surrounding the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic , which emerged in the middle years of the nineteenth century .
27 This is very important because once you start to perceive yourself in negative terms you will probably start to act in a negative way , being quarrelsome and finally looking to food for comfort .
28 This is very nice , ’ she said , when he got back to the table .
29 This is very usual and enormously important .
30 I said , ‘ This is very good , but the performance you are talking of is on film .
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