Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other components of the cuticle account for only a very small part of its weight but are of great physiological significance . |
| 2 | After all , the physical facts of life are commonplace throughout the universe ; the biological , so far as we know , are peculiar to this planet and then for only a very brief part of its history . |
| 3 | He will recall that inflation never fell below 7.4 per cent. , and that for only a very brief period , while the Labour party was in Government . |
| 4 | However , that buying policy seems to have existed for only a very short period and to have been an aberration , as indeed is Fishbane 's reign . |
| 5 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
| 6 | The reasoning in the lawyer/client cases can not automatically be transferred to the financial services area because of the particular nature of the lawyer/client relationship including the fact that in order to prove a breach of confidence a client might be forced to forfeit the lawyer/client privilege , and that the very restrictive Law Society rules provide for only a very limited role for the Chinese wall where law firms amalgamate and the clients consent . |
| 7 | These parties I 'm talking about only a very dumb blonde would ask questions . |
| 8 | Everything eaten turns to wind and they may feel full and distended after only a very few mouthfuls with momentary relief ( > ) from belching . |
| 9 | Erm Peter , North Yorkshire , I think it 's appropriately addressed there and I think there are so many elements of it that er I think you w you would end up with perhaps a very long explanatory section . |
| 10 | But when we talk about our conscious experiences we are providing our listener with only a very crude approximation to the actual phenomenal content of experience . |
| 11 | These days , when she occasionally took over from Annunciata and brushed Mrs Browning 's hair , she marvelled that a woman so much older than herself should still have such black , black hair with only a very few silver threads in it ( which she was instructed to pull out ) . |
| 12 | He 's taught many a Clubrep to ski and with only a very few exceptions , he can virtually guarantee to get you up and around the bay first time . |
| 13 | With only a very slight hesitation she launched into her part . |
| 14 | Editor , — A R Gamble and colleagues aimed to identify the primary site of metastatic cancer using tumour marker immunoreactivity in the hope that this will reduce the number of investigations in patients with often a very limited life span . |
| 15 | In the drive to combat drug trafficking , anyone found with even a very small amount of an illegal drug can be charged by the police with the offence of " possession with intent to supply " . |
| 16 | In 1986 Neil Kinnock described the ERM as a ‘ strait-jacket ’ which ‘ would leave us with either a very unstable currency or very unstable interest rates ’ . |
| 17 | In addition he has stressed the crankish nature of many of its supporters and the fact that it drew that support from only a very small section of the working class — even though they may have formed a significant proportion of the BUF 's small membership of between 5,000 and 40,000 members throughout the 1930s . |
| 18 | In only a very few pages , we have left the twentieth century far behind and discovered that these two descend from the Lombardic heroes mentioned in the Old English poem Widsith ( Aelfwin and Eadwin ) ; and since Aelfvin means ‘ Elf-friend ’ , we are not surprised to find ourselves drifting further back to the times when elves still walked the earth , before Numenor ( the Atlantis of the Tolkien mythology ) had sunk beneath the waves . |
| 19 | The route from gene to observed effect can be very tortuous and has been worked out in only a very few cases so far . |
| 20 | So far , we have looked at the external environment in only a very general kind of way . |
| 21 | Indeed , large deletions of this domain in dystrophin result in only a very mild phenotype . |
| 22 | This procedure is different from an appeal in only a very formal sense . |
| 23 | This has several drawbacks , including the fact that even when all the weak stems of the words in a search co-occur , they may do so in only a very few records , and there may be other relevant records retrievable by adding one or more strong stems . |
| 24 | Firstly , it is likely that the NHS will survive , albeit in perhaps a very different shape in 2000 to that in 1990 . |
| 25 | Despite her love of the Commonwealth , and Prince Charles ' concern for the inner cities , there is not a single black or Asian face to be seen in the inner circle , and scarcely any white ones drawn from outside a very small pool . |
| 26 | From outside a very loud and bullying voice demanded the landlord . |
| 27 | It wo n't be a problem for Phillips slotting in there a very good footballer . |
| 28 | This small house in Pamphill , Dorset , presented until recently a very drab and rundown appearance . |
| 29 | He comes to a similar conclusion to that of the classical theorists of the nineteenth century : face-to-face contacts are many and multifarious , but they are again secondary , fractionalised and based on only a very partial knowledge of a particular individual . |
| 30 | This was done to only a very limited extent in the UK in 1988/89 ( Huhne 1988 ) . |