Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holidays with her were thus a very full as well as a very rewarding experience . |
| 2 | We were always a very close bunch of people , ’ she said . |
| 3 | This involved the introduction of centralised procedural agreements for dispute settlement and the associations were also a very significant influence upon the adoption of industry-wide agreements on pay and hours ( Clegg , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | All the displays were bright and lively and the leotards were also a very colourful touch . |
| 5 | The Forces were potentially a very profitable area , he added , but relationships need to be long-term . |
| 6 | They were otherwise a very disparate group of seven . |
| 7 | It was altogether a very jolly wake . |
| 8 | It was obviously a very clever song but it was n't until we were recording it and filming it down at Greenwich Studios , that we realised its potential because . |
| 9 | It was obviously a very successful practice , providing instant vascular and general surgery on an outpatient level . |
| 10 | She was obviously a very well-educated woman . |
| 11 | because he wa he was obviously a very repressed man was n't he ? |
| 12 | It was obviously a very serious outbreak last year , what are the chances of it happening again ? |
| 13 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , my son , who was only a very small boy when you last saw him , happened the other day . |
| 14 | It was only a very light avalanche : this close to the summit it had no time to gather power . |
| 15 | This proved a privilege we did not altogether enjoy as , at that time , the road over Encumeada pass was only a very narrow shelf which fell away on our side of the road ! |
| 16 | Since the set has two transmitter power settings , 1.6W and 5.0W output power , I had hoped to find that the higher power setting would overcome by 1.5W KX99 's main failing — its inability to talk to ground stations farther that about 10nm away ; but according to the controllers I tried to speak to using both hand-helds in turn , there was only a very marginal difference between the King and the ICOM unit on either of its power settings . |
| 17 | I do n't know who it was made the decision , I was only a very junior Producer . |
| 18 | ‘ He was only a very junior doctor and the risk of infection is negligible . |
| 19 | Leith was sorry she 'd missed seeing him , but resumed work , realising that since she was only a very small cog in a big machine Mr Massingham would be too busy to make a second visit , or remember , should he be interested in numbers , that there was one member of staff he had n't met yet . |
| 20 | There was only a very slight frown on her brow when Fernando went inside to bring out the paella . |
| 21 | Michael Banks was suddenly a very expensive albatross around Paul Lexington 's neck . |
| 22 | There was thus a very big backlog in demand from people who no longer faced a price barrier . |
| 23 | This type of ritual was already a very ancient custom by the time the famous Temple of Artemis was built , around 600 BC ; it had been a common practice in Anatolia , Syria , Mesopotamia and Egypt ( Trell 1988 ) . |
| 24 | It was already a very strange day , and Alice was beginning to think that anything was possible . |
| 25 | The mammalian hippocampus was already a very well understood structure ; its neural connections , input and output pathways were clearly mapped and easily identifiable from preparation to preparation even if its individual neurons were not as directly recognizable as are those of Aplysia . |
| 26 | In fact , he was very much the resident funny man in what was already a very amusing show indeed . |
| 27 | He was n't asleep ; it was just a very difficult time for him . |
| 28 | Hardy was just a very kind old man . ’ |
| 29 | As the Danzigers saw it , Gdynia was just a very expensive way of ruining them ; it proved just how hard-hearted and merciless the Poles could be , and that feeling helped to foster the growth of the Nazi Party in the Free City . |
| 30 | ‘ It was just a very tragic cot death , completely inexplicable or understandable . |