Example sentences of "very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , and it shows a very unorganised person , the second one is called Salvation , by then of course the person is very much better organised as a team . |
| 2 | Egypt is a very humbling place , with its larger-than-life statues and obelisks serenely standing since before the time of Christ , and the mammoth pyramids whose blocks of stone weigh up to forty tons each ; this is a land which inspires constant awe and disbelief . |
| 3 | ‘ And when I think of the Third-World mothers who do n't even have a roof , and who still manage to love and care for their children , it 's very humbling . |
| 4 | Preaching is a very humbling thing . |
| 5 | The voting decisions of most Americans in the past will have been very uninformed . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never claimed to be an artist , ’ she said coolly , ‘ simply an amateur painter , and therefore you 'd find my opinion very uninformed … |
| 7 | It was a very progressive performance , far too uncommercial . |
| 8 | Roger Samways , Adviser for English and Drama in Dorset , was very progressive in outlook , holding views about children 's learning which were anathema to most right-wing Conservatives . |
| 9 | Their policy to encourage cycling , not the macho sort but for families , is very progressive . |
| 10 | There 's things that we are doing like I 've been told by a couple of people this evening the autumn programme they think it 's very good very progressive very enjoyable I thi that that to me that reinforces the autumn programme by several people so people who here are people here this evening feel they we say something about what is n't on the agenda or what is on the agenda but I think that 's what the meetings for but I do n't think it 's a bad exercise to talk to the people who actually pay come in the building I mean I think that 's a valid exercise . |
| 11 | All these parents sent their children to Byron House school , which was a very progressive school for those times . |
| 12 | But the however we got by and it was a very progressive wee bakery . |
| 13 | In other words , we have a welfare state , we help the international community with our foreign aid , and we are very progressive and we use the most up-to-date erm technology in developing our country and erm we are paying no taxes , and very progressive . |
| 14 | In other words , we have a welfare state , we help the international community with our foreign aid , and we are very progressive and we use the most up-to-date erm technology in developing our country and erm we are paying no taxes , and very progressive . |
| 15 | Erm what is now being proposed is a somewhat less regimented plan than we had before , if you remember there were lines of trees before in a very grid-like pattern across the marketplace . |
| 16 | Perhaps the logical extension of this getting undressed for success in this month 's Playboy , in which Sandra 's regular photographer Michel Comte pictures her in various states of undress ‘ with women , with men — nothing very raunchy . |
| 17 | My family 's history is very tied to this lodge . |
| 18 | Local parties were not very representative of Unionist voters , but this did not affect their independence or their control over their candidates . |
| 19 | There are many examples of plastic media , but we received two for review which are very representative . |
| 20 | " Notwithstanding the refusals of one or two of the most prominent societies , the Conference was a very representative one , no fewer than twenty-one societies being represented , besides delegates from places where no missionary agencies existed . |
| 21 | Taylor is very representative of his members , who regard him as one of the best qualified chairman the federation has had in the North-East . |
| 22 | A school 's claim of achieving excellent standards in sports or instrumental music may seem very hollow to parents of children that do n't have an opportunity to take up an instrument or to play for the school team . |
| 23 | Even more , the thesis that the economy has suffered from too few producers in the manufacturing sector rings very hollow indeed [ Kaldor , 1966 , 1968 , 1975 ] . |
| 24 | But it is also that the worlds which Burrows evokes are very intimate and very enclosed . |
| 25 | Barker ( 1984 ) had the unusual experience of being approached and invited to do research into a very enclosed group in which she was already interested , the Unification Church . |
| 26 | ‘ Professionalism ’ and ‘ relationships ’ ( or ‘ confidential relationships ’ ) are also relevant words in this discussion which may be used in a way that is highly supportive of , or very antagonistic to , access to information by the person to whom it relates . |
| 27 | She 'd be very antagonistic when I was putting the jesses on , so the first thing she would do when I picked her up was pull at her feet and try to work herself loose . |
| 28 | You sound very antagonistic towards her . ’ |
| 29 | She 'd have to be very hard-up before she would take a man like him . |
| 30 | His patient was getting on for fifty , a handsome , tall woman , very well-dressed . |