Example sentences of "[adj] and very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1918 Eliot wrote of the need for artists to be at once very primitive and very sophisticated ; he praised Lewis 's Tarr as being ‘ like our civilization criticized , our acrobatics animadverted upon adversely , by an orang-outang of genius , Tarzan of the Apes ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ It is a very mystical and very powerful number , although twelve is more frequently found . |
| 3 | Kalchu had brewed some millet beer months ago to ferment out ready for today and it was sweet and clear and very strong . |
| 4 | The apostle here gives two very clear and very solemn warnings about rejecting Jesus , about turning a deaf ear to him . |
| 5 | It gives a clear and very welcome signal to all the people in Northern Ireland of their determination to find a political solution . |
| 6 | And I tried it one night , it was very yummy and very filling . |
| 7 | Creggan was staring in a hostile way at this invasion of his territory but feeling too lazy to bother much about it when to his astonishment he heard a familiar and unpleasant voice say something unfamiliar and very strange indeed . |
| 8 | The way in which they try to break those ties may often be brutal and very painful for the mother , but the instinct is right . |
| 9 | ‘ He was calm and very good . |
| 10 | Of course Luiza should n't be paired with the lanky and very young tenor ; they 'd have to replot the run-up to that part so that she came into the ballroom with someone else . |
| 11 | but it 's not television , i i it 's , it 's Doctor Who and , and Prisoner and , you know er very interesting and very easy for enthusiasts to direct a lot of their time and energy to maybe I do n't maybe there was a increased pressure to work and study which was erm self motivated rather than being externally imposed , maybe he maybe there was a fundamental lack of enthusiasm in him for what is described as the hardware of computing , the , the , the , the , the instruments , the machines maybe there was a less than comprehensive understanding of what is known as the firmware , that 's to say I mean operating systems that are built into the thing to make it work , you 've got to understand the firmware because otherwise you do n't understand what the machine will think you mean and what that will do and I would have thought that whereas superficially you can ignore the firmware , it 's all in there , it understands as you , I would have thought , grew into a er a graduate computer scientist you 've got to have some idea about that . |
| 12 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 13 | Here I feel the middle single coil is a little on the thin side against the tapped humbuckers , but when the five-way is in positions two or four it makes for some interesting and very usable tonal combinations . |
| 14 | An interesting and very entertaining hybrid of flamboyant style and too predictable content , Mo' Better Blues balances Lee 's characteristic from-the-hip immediacy of camerawork , dialogue and performances against a storyline which , but for some very significant trimmings of colour , language and attitude , could well have come out of 1950s Hollywood . |
| 15 | ‘ So down-to-earth and very honest . |
| 16 | Mine is quilted , waterproof and very warm . |
| 17 | Be a g I mean it would be a nice bath , it would be light and very strong . |
| 18 | It 's compact and well-proportioned , surprisingly light and very well-balanced . |
| 19 | ‘ This mousse gives a superb robust flavour , yet is light and very fresh tasting . ’ |
| 20 | It 's like coming across as something funny and very serious . |
| 21 | We ask guests to complete a short , quality-related questionnaire in return for a donation to charity , so we get a willing and very satisfactory response . ’ |
| 22 | They were nice lips , beautifully curved , and his eyes were brown and very round . |
| 23 | He said of the rate rise : ‘ It is tactically wrong and very damaging to our already hard-hit industry . ’ |
| 24 | Well known examples include the rare use of the 80–100 per cent range in arts and social studies and the full use of very high and very low marks in science and mathematics . |
| 25 | Most notably , he added one big and two small islands ( shown in Fig. 16.8 as having high and very high slug densities ) which were patches of nettle , Urtica dioica . |
| 26 | There is a clear excess over expectation of cyanogenic forms in the areas of high and very high mollusc density and of acyanogenic forms in the areas of very low mollusc density . |
| 27 | ‘ Very high and very beautiful . |
| 28 | Next came Mrs. Sutton 's shop — very old and very small — a two storey building with a roof of lovely weathered tiles . |
| 29 | She was very old and very deaf . |
| 30 | The Wallace Line commemorates his observation that a zoographical division slices the Indonesian archipelago in half , running down between Celebes and Borneo , Bali and Lombok , and thinly separates very old and very new life-forms . |