Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] is very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this , I later discovered , is that at yours there is likely to be a selection of friends and relations , one of whom in the course of discussion is bound to say , ‘ Come on , let's give him the best ! ’ and although he or she is very seldom the one who is paying for it , no one likes to appear mean at such a time — an attitude , I might add , of which the undertaker thoroughly approves ! |
| 2 | In as far as there is an average Japanese , he or she is very much a town dweller . |
| 3 | Either there is no cancer risk , or it is very small . ’ |
| 4 | As you can see , unless you feel that there is something suspect about the property , such as an extension which you feel may be badly constructed , or it is very old ( say , 18th century ) it is really not worth paying out for the more in-depth survey in the initial stages , which costs twice as much as the ordinary valuation survey . |
| 5 | Vision that is 5 per cent as good as yours or mine is very much worth having in comparison with no vision at all . |
| 6 | There is great fascination in the quiet , frank manner of the Emperor and she is very pleasing , very graceful , and very unaffected , but very delicate . |
| 7 | Sometimes she wants me to work hard on the court and she is very serious and at home she is very nice to me . |
| 8 | " She is four , and she is very beautiful . |
| 9 | ‘ And she is very young . |
| 10 | I 've spoken to the man 's mother and she is very relieved . ’ |
| 11 | His ear is like my own , and he is very good with the crew . |
| 12 | Thomas Cockburn , a young Berwickshire man serving at Madras , requested his freeholder father to approach his member of parliament to seek letters of recommendation to the governor , Lord Macartney , for as the father pointed out , ‘ every thing goes by interest , and he is very anxious to have Letters of Weight ’ . |
| 13 | He loves cooking and he is very good at it . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is a little off the point , and he is very selective in his reading . |
| 15 | So you can imagine Frank Clarke thinking well we 've got the wind behind us we 've got ta put a lot of high balls into the box and he is very important to us but at the moment he 's not making the box . |
| 16 | ‘ He does pick things up very quickly , and he is very keen to do it . |
| 17 | He does not eat , and he is very thin . |
| 18 | ’ He 's quite sexy , for a woman , and he is very charming … |
| 19 | ‘ He was very close to her and he is very , very upset as you would expect , ’ a family spokesman said . |
| 20 | We have cocopeat in our flowerpots and it is very good , but there is one drawback Geoff did n't mention . |
| 21 | Although representatives of Age Concern England were interviewed by a number of local radio interviewers the stations are always far more interested in a local angle and it is very helpful when we can refer enquiries to a local group . |
| 22 | That is a trap which people get into with acts and it is very dangerous for both sides . |
| 23 | Maggie was tempted to that particular plot , for the story had been told that way so many times , and it is very hard , at moments of crisis , to re-cast the language and the shape of old stories . |
| 24 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 25 | The younger O'Sullivans liked to tell this macabre tale and it is very possible that Poe , too , may have heard it . |
| 26 | All the same , the text makes no claim to be citing this rescript , and it is very curious that the jurist should first limit his remarks to the facts as stated and then go on to limit them to the words quoted ; especially since the facts stated amount to little more than those words . |
| 27 | There is , and it is very important , a joking relationship , not unlike that in the armed forces and elsewhere . |
| 28 | The balance between the two varied according to economic circumstances , and it is very difficult for us to reconstruct the nature of these services in detail over a wide area before the thirteenth century . |
| 29 | This is one of the oldest tricks for children and it is very effective , yet I am surprised at the number of parents who do not know it . |
| 30 | The prospect of a rabid Irish nationalist invasion of Northern Ireland from the Republic in order to swamp the poll is unreal in more than one sense and it is very doubtful if the three months ' residence requirement is necessary . |