Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has annually a very gay season during the days of the Highland games , when balls are held . |
| 2 | If this is indeed the case , he has obviously a very wide range of choices available to him . |
| 3 | When compared to the surface area of the undergravel filter this type of filter has only a very small , and therefore restricted filtering area , usually made of sponge , and would need very regular attention if employed in the large cichlid community tank . |
| 4 | The tank is unfiltered but contains only a very few fish at any one time . |
| 5 | The report which gives such a gloomy view of the state of physics ( Comment , 24 February , p 502 ; This Week , 3 February , p 287 ) covers only a very small part of physics . |
| 6 | We read , for instance , that Spalding ‘ has now a very neat and generally modern appearance , having more than doubled its population and buildings since 1811 , and most of its ancient houses and public buildings have been rebuilt ; many of them during the last twenty-five years ’ . |
| 7 | How different is this deep breathing from the shallow , uncontrolled breathing which uses only a very small part of the lungs . |
| 8 | Its distinguishing feature is that it uses only a very few basic operators — typically just one , called modus ponens , or some equivalent — which are very well understood and reliable . |
| 9 | Mr deletes only a very , a few small items totalling just over three thousand pounds worth from the fifty three thousand six hundred and thirty eight pounds and fifty five pence sum claimed in Mr report . |
| 10 | There exists however a very great number of variant routes on the numerous well defined walking paths that make this area a great favourite with Swiss visitors who enjoy walking holidays off the beaten track . |
| 11 | It sounds altogether a very odd bird . |
| 12 | John Retallack is a bright director but keeps only a very light hand on the tiller here ; this is not so much director 's theatre as anonymous the- atre . |
| 13 | This effect can not merely be explained by a conceivable depletion of TBP , because transcription of the classical pol III genes requires only a very low amount of TBP ( 6 ; and our own unpublished results ) , the presence of which could be verified by western-blot analysis of hTFIIIB and hTFIIIC containing fractions used for the assay ( our unpublished results ) . |
| 14 | Lévi-Strauss reads then a very modernist Kelsenian ‘ legalism ’ into pre-modern societies and hence misses their very characteristic form of power relations . |
| 15 | The author of " The New Universal Gazetteer , " the second edition of which was published in Edinburgh in 1796 , gives only a very short piece , as might be expected , but tells us " There is only one harbour , named Lochindale , in the whole island " and says a " Fair is held on May 18th . " |
| 16 | The author of " The New Universal Gazetteer , " the second edition of which was published in Edinburgh in 1796 , gives only a very short piece , as might be expected , but tells us " There is only one harbour , named Lochindale , in the whole island " and says a " Fair is held on May 18th . " |
| 17 | MAFF publishes no cost/ benefit appraisals of grant-aided capital schemes and makes only a very superficial assessment of their value in either agricultural or financial terms . |
| 18 | I have to advise the information to the economic development panel which indicates from our survey that the report carried out last year by Consultants that the airfield , the runway in Hatfield makes only a very minor contribution to the economy of Hertfordshire . |
| 19 | Visible light occupies only a very small part of the total range of wavelengths , or ‘ electromagnetic spectrum ’ . |