Example sentences of "[adv] a very [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Banks was suddenly a very expensive albatross around Paul Lexington 's neck . |
| 2 | The DCSL ( who , interestingly enough , was an active member of the library committee throughout the period of the project ) reports its beginnings in : what was very much a very small group in the school … a certain group of people who were keen for something like this to happen … |
| 3 | It has annually a very gay season during the days of the Highland games , when balls are held . |
| 4 | This is not merely a very bare conception of the world , but argument supports intuition in pronouncing it an incoherent one . |
| 5 | Yes I I remember we went down a very long cul-de-sac at one stage on self containment did n't we . |
| 6 | Because it is so bizarre it is not possible to go down a very new route of comedy without appearing derivative . |
| 7 | Schedule 3 lays down a very wide range of considerations , for example : |
| 8 | By consuming calories without any dietary fibre at all , you can get down a very large number of calories , at a very fast rate , with very little effect in satisfying the appetite . |
| 9 | STILL admirably sticking to their principles , the Hernandez Brothers recently turned down a very large sum from Warner Brothers for the rights to make a film of the Love And Rockets comic . |
| 10 | At the same time , however , it allows the hearer to derive a range of contextual effects — perhaps a very wide range of weak implicatures — which would not have been derived from the original formulation . |
| 11 | Which is not perhaps a very good use of time . |
| 12 | Firstly , it is likely that the NHS will survive , albeit in perhaps a very different shape in 2000 to that in 1990 . |
| 13 | The other thing that might contribute to er er improving matters would be if the compensation arrangements er were such that the er fund managers were involved in having to provide some of the compensa compensation if there were any to be paid , then there 's obviously a very good incentive for them to police themselves more thoroughly . |
| 14 | If this is indeed the case , he has obviously a very wide range of choices available to him . |
| 15 | It 's not because there is n't class war in Britain , there 's obviously a very great deal of class war , but it 's a kind of cold class war which does n't erupt into the violences which have characterised French , Italian , Russian , Balkan , Spanish politics . |
| 16 | It is obviously a very exciting project for us though , and it will allow Kylie to show just how much she has developed over the past three years . |
| 17 | although he must be sixty odd erm and it 's obviously a very difficult time for him . |
| 18 | and the other girl and they go to this very chichi Chinese restaurant and when they walk in the manager of the restaurant recognizes his father who is obviously a very important man in China before the revolution and he goes over , chats so in honour of the Mr Moo Bing , you know |
| 19 | Brian obviously a very important win for you but there were some close shaves for you in the second half . |
| 20 | On to the afternoon and clearer skies will continue to push across much of central and southern Scotland , so a very pleasant afternoon in store for most places . |
| 21 | The argument was that almost anything could be used in connection with cars or motoring , and so a very wide range of goods fell to be classified as motor accessories for the purposes of the section . |
| 22 | Caught off guard , in a mellow mood , away-from the pressures that the stance has been developed to shield them from , they too will admit to being disappointed and confused , not as hard-bitten as they make out , and as having found only a very inadequate solution to what seems to be an insoluble problem : how to do a good enough job . |
| 23 | So far , we have looked at the external environment in only a very general kind of way . |
| 24 | This table is only a very general point of reference . |
| 25 | Garry Whannel traced four main themes in the analysis of football hooliganism in the popular press in the 1970s : fans were ‘ mindless/senseless ’ ; they were ‘ maniacs/lunatics ’ ; ‘ foul/subhuman ’ ( which led some fans to chant back at the police and the respectable public ‘ We hate humans ’ ) ; finally that they were ‘ so-called supporters ’ and in a small minority , i.e. they made up only a very small percentage of the crowd and they had little interest in the game itself . |
| 26 | In the wild , the specialist predators may spend only a very small percentage of their time in the pursuit of food . |
| 27 | As a result , the individual may retain only a very small percentage of the extra income earned and , in some cases , may actually lose more than the extra income earned . |
| 28 | He said only a very small percentage of forests was used for furniture , the rest was wasted or burned as fuel by the local people . |
| 29 | Numeracy is the other major curriculum concern of SENSS teachers although , all too often , only a very small percentage of available resources is devoted to this subject . |
| 30 | Khomeini seemed then only a very small voice in the wilderness , Bit in retrospect , the party at Persepolis can be seen to symbolize the end of the most successful years of the Shahs reign . |