Example sentences of "[noun] are very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Replicas are very useful for reconstruction activities . |
| 2 | These institutions are very different from the colonial ones of the past , but none the less many of the assumptions that lie behind today 's conservation policies and projects remain intact . |
| 3 | ‘ These kippers are very good , Auguste , ’ said Edith hopefully . |
| 4 | So , editor 's notes are very useful . |
| 5 | The prospects for establishing bad faith are very limited however , given that virtually any policy that is premised on increasing profits but which will be damaging to employees , such as a plant closure , can be portrayed as being beneficial to the employees in general , for example by making other jobs in the company more secure , thus supporting the claim that employee interests have been sufficiently considered . |
| 6 | Although the damaging acts are very similar , football fans are ‘ deviants ’ whilst students , for reasons not made explicit , are somehow excused . |
| 7 | Well since that debate the government has taken the decision to introduce the duty into a fifth regulated sector friendly societies and a negative resolution order under the friendly societies act nineteen ninety two is also is also prop be N reasons for taking action across this wide front Madam Deputy Speaker , first and most important , the relevant provisions in the various acts are very similar and if we are to bolster the arrangements in relation to banks then we should do the same for other sectors entrusted with the public 's investments . |
| 8 | Whilst it is not suggested that such behaviour is common , the temptation to copy , or at least to fail to acknowledge the other thesis as a source , is made stronger by the knowledge that such unscrupulous acts are very difficult to detect , because the original works , if unpublished , may only be known to the researchers and to their supervisors . |
| 9 | We agree that most housewives are very undervalued and there should be far higher state benefits for the less well-off — particularly one-parent families — but is n't this taking things a bit too far ? |
| 10 | The idea that , that human beings are a species whose social interactions are very critical , as we know social interactions are also very important to reproductive success , and so I bring in inside this analytic cooperation the idea about deception and the evolution of the unconscious , that press deceivers do n't know that , deceiving . |
| 11 | A kilogram or two of surgical plaster or plaster-of-Paris depending on the size of the housing ( you can buy powdered plaster at a chemist 's shop ) ; a dish to act as a mould for casting the plaster block-the dish can be any size from 10 cm × 20 cm up to about 20 cm × 20 cm , but should have a flat bottom and sides that slope slightly outward ; a sheet of glass to cover the housing ; a sheet of black cardboard ; Plasticine ; small blocks of wood or small plastic boxes ( the round boxes used for typewriter ribbons are very suitable ) ; cotton-wool . |
| 12 | ‘ Discussions are very frank , analytical , detailed and objective … |
| 13 | The spherical objects are very fragile and must be guided by Steg , to do this he must either nudge them or give them a quick blow ( erm … yes , fair enough — Ed ) . |
| 14 | Now normally , fixed returns we do use , you know like guaranteed income bonds , guaranteed er returns , but unfortunately , if you look at the Halifax list , or the er any building society list , their fixed-rate returns are very dodgy and they 're round about sort of er six and a half to seven percent at the most erm if you tie for three to four years , and they go up to about seven and a half , maybe a little bit more if you tie for five years . |
| 15 | The criteria for discrimination are very variable and when European writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at last began to realize ( perhaps inadvisedly ) that the word religion might be applied to other systems of thought besides Christianity this was one of the factors on which the classification of religions was based . |
| 16 | It can not be said that there are any completely universal cultural devices by which we achieve these ends but certain kinds of taboo-loaded discrimination are very common . |
| 17 | Another big plus is that its two separate states are very different — it is easy for other devices to detect which ‘ state ’ a quiteron switch is in . |
| 18 | Most of the experiments that have contributed to the ideas described in this book fall somewhere between these two extremes , although the proportions contributed by theory and by experiment to the final story are very variable . |
| 19 | And the names in the story are very important . |
| 20 | Ducks are very beautiful , a riot of colour . |
| 21 | The supply of SDRs can be controlled in line with the demand for reserve assets , and the costs of provision are very low since it is merely a book-keeping transaction . |
| 22 | The fact that there may indeed be real risks attached to opening up and talking from the heart is not in dispute , just as the limitations on teachers ' freedom are very real . |
| 23 | So the brewery are very keen to sort of keep in there and make |
| 24 | These two essences are very versatile having a myriad of therapeutic properties . |
| 25 | However a problem is that these nuclei are very small and only a few manage to collide and fuse . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think Christine and Robert King are very happy , ’ said Ginnie . |
| 27 | The Germans are very orderly . |
| 28 | The Germans are very stiff lovers ; he did n't last long . ’ |
| 29 | It 'll be hard getting the visa , but the Russians are very sentimental people , and when it comes to saving a child 's life , they might agree to it ’ . |
| 30 | Airline finances and particularly those of small independents are very volatile , sometimes the difference between profit and loss resting on two or three additional seats being filled . |