Example sentences of "which [is] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , he knew how to listen — which is very rare . |
| 2 | It looks like magnesium deficiency , which is very common on sandy and light soils , where the nutrient is quickly leached away . |
| 3 | Peter Tinworth , chairman of the governing body of one school , and a Tory party member , said : ‘ We want to protect the character of our school , which is very successful . |
| 4 | At which , after an ovation , half the audience did depart to hear Michael Heseltine , whose idea of a fringe meeting is to hold it in the Grand Theatre , which is very grand , built 1906 , seats 1,200 , and where Alvin Stardust will head the bill in this year 's pantomime . |
| 5 | It 's very weird to see yourself ; looking in the mirror is not the same thing as seeing yourself three-dimensionally , which is very , very peculiar , ’ says Howard , who politely declined the chance to take his effigy home at the end of filming . |
| 6 | They play a physically demanding pressing game which is very effective under normal conditions , but they wo n't be able to maintain the pressure if it is very hot . |
| 7 | ‘ In those early days , ’ says Gatfield , ‘ the A&R person is everything to a new act — they hold the purse strings and there is a very special relationship because it was the A&R person who offered them the way into a record company , which is very , very special . ’ |
| 8 | Marx is continually facing a problem which is very familiar to anthropologists : how to express a different system with a vocabulary which is inevitably moulded to the institutions of the society in which it is normally used . |
| 9 | On the stage you get two hours of release , which is very pleasant . |
| 10 | All of which is very unfair . |
| 11 | Calvin Mark Lee , from his new record company , donated posters for us to sell at the festival and he was extremely rude to Calvin , which is very strange when you think of the lyrics to ‘ Memory Of A Free Festival ’ which he wrote after the event : ‘ I kissed a lot of people that day ’ . |
| 12 | The most popular German salami that I sell is the square peppery variety , which is very finely minced pork and beef coated on the outside with ground black peppercorns ( see p7 ) . |
| 13 | In addition to the usual peach-coloured cheese , there is a white Cheshire which is very popular in the North of England . |
| 14 | Mussels and oysters are usually canned in cotton seed oil which is very strong , so they should be well rinsed before use and , if necessary , tossed in a little olive oil to restore their flavour . |
| 15 | But in knowledge of nature beyond that required in poaching — which is very considerable — Dad was even more erudite . |
| 16 | She was even deliberately ridden backwards , which is very hard on a horse , to make her want to go forwards for relief , but she still refused to move on . |
| 17 | Her character goes through a number of changes which is very interesting . |
| 18 | Although some financial assistance is given to team members , which is very welcome , most of the cost is carried by the individual athletes , some of whom are unemployed . |
| 19 | I am expected to do most of the work including taking care of him ( the mentally retarded boy ) which is very hard with all my school-work too . |
| 20 | Jackson agreed , saying that a regulation only gave the illusion of application and that a directive ‘ gives national flexibility which is very necessary ’ . |
| 21 | One of the most successful uses of a viral control agent , however , causes long-term suppression of the pest population without ever being applied directly to the crop — ie the use of a non-occluded ( sub-group C ) baculovirus to control the rhinoceros beetle ( Oryctes rhinoceros ) , which is very damaging on coconut plantations . |
| 22 | There 's no doubt that while the East is fascinating in many ways , most people who write of it overlook its two outstanding features — sand and syphilis , especially the latter , which is very prevalent . |
| 23 | The species is preserved in relief in limestone , which is very fine grained , and retains many fine details . |
| 24 | Any strong chemicals , if allowed to come into contact with the urethral mucous membrane , which is very sensitive , may set up an irritative urethritis . |
| 25 | There is still a breed known as the Milking Devon in Massachusetts which is very close to the original seventeenth-century type and a valuable reserve of the old genes . |
| 26 | There is a rare Brittany breed which is very similar to the Guernsey and possibly formed the ancestral stock . |
| 27 | Clearly the question of how much it costs to sustain at home elderly people with dementia is a very important one , but it is one which is very difficult to answer . |
| 28 | She nourishes a secret , unrequited love for Headstone , which is very well understood by her favourite pupil , Mary-Anne . |
| 29 | A strategy using incentives is best restricted to ( and presented as ) a way of helping the child learn to do something which is very difficult , or as an appreciation of a special effort ( or sacrifice ) made . |
| 30 | In Breckland there is coarse sand which is very porous and poor for crops . |