Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] 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 a kind of confidence , typified in the prayer to Christ the source of sweet honey-cells of devotion , which is at odds with the stark mood provoked by a revulsion from sin in the whole piece and which is very different from the whole thrust of the short version : The profound realisation of Jesus as a source of grace at the heart of this passage in the long version colours the meditator 's longing for it in the other expanded meditations that open out of this sequence of prayers . |
| 7 | Great difficulties arise if an aged person , who has probably just been released from hospital and who is very ill , can not manage in what is usually a two-storey house where the facilities are upstairs , and has to wait 13 months before the application for downstairs facilities is even sanctioned . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sometimes she wants me to work hard on the court and she is very serious and at home she is very nice to me . |
| 10 | " She is four , and she is very beautiful . |
| 11 | ‘ And she is very young . |
| 12 | I 've spoken to the man 's mother and she is very relieved . ’ |
| 13 | Most of the original copies are in fine condition : they are , moreover , exceedingly rate and one is very likely to go through life without coming across better ones . |
| 14 | However , it was linked by Mrs Thatcher , who suggested that it signified that the Irish Republic was less committed than Britain in bringing the IRA to account for their crimes : ‘ You take these murders of these four people today alongside the decisions in the Supreme Court not to extradite those accused of violent crime — and one is very , very depressed ’ . |
| 15 | The line of the body is not impinged upon at all at this point and everything is very neat and tidy . |
| 16 | The wind sweeps unhindered across the plains , and there is very little precipitation . |
| 17 | I HAVE both a £10 and a £20 note before me as I write and there is very little difference between them , either in size or colour . |
| 18 | If you ca n't rely on the private sector or exports to get the economy going , you need to rely on the Government and there is very little in this statement to reflect that policy . |
| 19 | This makes life simpler and there is very little to remember when working this way . |
| 20 | There are only so many ways to describe a pitch and there is very little need to alter descriptions if the existing ones work perfectly well , thus cutting down on the number of major rewrites required . |
| 21 | Generalizations about public transport decline almost certainly obscure the complexity of the picture in any local area , and there is very little precise , comparative information on local or even regional variations in the rates of increase , decrease or changing fortunes of different modes or routes at different dates . |
| 22 | ASSURED SHORTHOLD TENANCIES do not give long-term tenancy rights and there is very little control over the rent levels that can be charged by a landlord . |
| 23 | Thus the attractive and repulsive forces between the individual particles nearly cancel each other out , and there is very little net electromagnetic force . |
| 24 | I mean if you 've got a paradoxical situation here and there is very high unemployment in the urban area , yet migration is still , is still an ongoing phenomenon , wh what may account for , they , they actually again erm a well paid urban job and they migrate . |
| 25 | They were satisfied , however , with little variety of raw material : take away the chalk , limestone , shale , sandstone and terracotta tesserae from most sites , and there is very little remaining . |
| 26 | I 'd like to make the observations because I 'm of the opinion that most members came into this chamber this afternoon with their minds completely and utterly made up and there is very little that we can do in this chamber this afternoon to change people 's minds . |
| 27 | It always will be their responsibility and there is very little we can do about that . |
| 28 | If in the future the single management committee on the two headed centre decide that they want a single headed project then only Pharuk hearing which I always subscribe to that it should be decided locally , they may have that said project I 'm sure you 'd agree , if they choose to have such one , if they feel that they need it , but we want to ensure , do we not , and the amendment does n't do this that we actually get a move on , that we spend the money we have , what little there is and there is very little on delivering the services , that we fuse the bureaucracy which is clearly contained in the other and , clearly contained , it 's spelt out in in in in tablets of stone in a way that 's never been done before . |
| 29 | His ear is like my own , and he is very good with the crew . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |