Example sentences of "very [adj] [conj] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The brothers are very childlike and I think that Lewis Carroll is reliving part of his childhood through this chapter . |
| 2 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 3 | ‘ I was very upset when I discovered that it had gone : it was a terrible shock . |
| 4 | Butler was , perhaps , not saying anything so very different when he observed that ‘ equal educational opportunity is not identical educational opportunity ’ . |
| 5 | His wife cares for him at home but this is very demanding and she finds that she needs regular breaks . |
| 6 | Data are not very adequate but they suggest that there has been a reduction of inequalities in this area even though the advantages of the non-manual over the manual groups are still substantial today . |
| 7 | The Conservatives will , however , be very wrong if they think that the whole constitutional thing can be forgotten . |
| 8 | Opposition Members do not believe that is very generous because we know that the cost of putting together a serious buy-out offer is likely to be nearer to £250,000 . |
| 9 | Really that 's very interesting and I accept that erm I personally was do the figures include the anticipated increase which we already know ? |
| 10 | Right , well we have two hundred and sixty five pounds and sixty eight pence in the bank at the moment , erm which actually is n't very much if you think that we 've got to go right through to July to our next fund raising event , so , I was wondering that , if anyone has n't paid their subscriptions for last year or if anyone owes for Christmas cards , I think there 's one or two |
| 11 | He wore old , dirty clothes , and I had to look very hard before I saw that it was my old friend . |
| 12 | Burma is very sick and we hope that he will produce a lot more apples like this one . ’ |
| 13 | Thank , thank you Mr Mayor I I 'll be very brief because I think that there have been a number of very good points made from all all sides of the chamber tonight and I think really er councillor er touched on the thing that that worried me so much about the creation of ghettos . |
| 14 | He did not feel very well and he felt that some air was called for . |
| 15 | er er er Well it can be but it c er er er er er I found it very helpful when I discovered that after I was saved . |
| 16 | I was very tired but I knew that I must look out for a trap . |
| 17 | I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country . |
| 18 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 19 | Personally , I do n't care one way or the other but James would n't be very happy if he knew that Leo knew . ’ |
| 20 | They — the earrings — belonged to my mother , so I value them , and naturally I was very concerned when I realised that I had lost — ’ |
| 21 | But then she added : ‘ They 're all very plain and I reckon that some of them must be over 60 ! ’ |
| 22 | She had a violent impulse to summon Murphy and go at once to Trelorne and find Michael Swinton , and so strong was this inclination and the need to explain to him that she was personally so very Lyddy before she realized that such an action was only a perfect sequel in childish impetuosity to her former one of agreeing to be painted in the first place . |
| 23 | He was also very pleased when he heard that George Bell , the famous Bishop of Chichester , took the book to read on his holiday in Switzerland . |
| 24 | The differences in treatment of the authors was very apparent when we found that some selected a few headings and sub-headings and others sub-divided the subject much more . |
| 25 | children , and talking about the strain , I mean some of these kids are very , very disturbed but I voted that I would , I would do it again . |
| 26 | It was very hot and I worried that he might be overdoing it , but he seemed to be wonderfully adaptable , and the sudden transmogrification from desk-bound boffin to agricultural worker seemed to have no effect at all on his physical well-being . |
| 27 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 28 | On more than one occasion she has admitted to being very intoxicated and I understand that she has stated that she had consumed about 24 single measures of dry Martini and lemonade , together with some white wine . |
| 29 | I think , John , I want to come back to the basic one , and that is , as a customer , if you 're handed what you think is an extended warranty to cover you for all sorts of things erm then you 're very disappointed if you find that most of the things that are going to go wrong with your car are excluded . |
| 30 | This is not very surprising when we consider that most joint ventures appear not to be entirely voluntary . |