Example sentences of "[verb] [that] it [is] very " in BNC.

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1 Tom adds that it is very important for young horses to have their teeth checked before they are bitted and broken ; racehorses usually have their first session at two years-old .
2 They should also know that it is very important that there must be established in the child 's mind at a very early age a dawning awareness of the fact that for all his life he will be required to submit to control from some source or other .
3 The debate will take place today and tomorrow behind closed doors , but party insiders say that it is very unlikely that Mr Mugabe will face serious opposition .
4 okay , again I mean these are things that talk about confirmation I mean quite honestly I 'm I 'd be quite happy if we had offices where people talk to each other ninety per cent of the time rather than send memos and faxes to each other , and on the whole we are really talking about inside the office with the people who we work with I mean obviously clients as well trying to find something different , we tend tend to find that it 's very very easy sometimes to make a phone call it 's much easier to make a phone call and to talk to that person and give them the personal touch .
5 But anyone who knows anything about it understands that it is very far removed from being an ‘ interchangeable with Labour ’ vote .
6 In Chapter 2 , I argued that it is very important to test the system as a whole as early as possible rather than to develop components in isolation .
7 In itself there is little harm in this , but I have noticed that it is very easy for the quest to become obsessional .
8 It was not a sway to worry Stevely , for he has always reckoned that it is very much easier to work on a swaying swing than one which is inhibited .
9 Professor Simmonds is correct when he says that it is very hard to isolate the part played by railways in the growth of towns and the development of the countryside from all the other economic and social factors of the nineteenth century .
10 He says that it 's very spectacular .
11 Binoculars show that it is very highly coloured ; telescopically I have described it as an orange blob , quite unlike a normal star .
12 When wearing crampons it 's important to remember that it 's very easy to spike yourself and trip up .
13 Imagine that it 's very cold and dark , that you 're old and hungry and that you love stealing and making trouble for people . ‘
14 Almost a quarter ( 22 per cent of those aged 65 — 74 and 23 per cent aged 75 + ) consider that it is very likely that someone of their age will develop a serious illness over the next ten years .
15 Oh very good , good , watch that it 's very easy to get it the wrong way round .
16 Instead of pointing out the errors you may be told that it is very good but have been better in a darker wood !
17 A little misleading in two respects , on is I think the average person does n't realize that it 's very hard to perceive very much of a difference when there 's only a twenty to thirty percent reduction .
18 In fact , a close examination of a section tucked away right at the end of the Act reveals that it is very vague .
19 One contributor replied that it is very difficult to create new jobs at all and especially difficult to attract jobs to Northern Ireland .
20 You will appreciate that it is very difficult to apply to your institution , please attempt an approximate quantification of notional time spent on language work , and indicate the problem in a footnote .
21 Well without sort of , saying because I work in that department , it 's good , erm I sincerely believe that it is very good .
22 I also believe that it is very unlikely to produce the kind of answers that can be summarized in a final report .
23 They 're offering a gift , you know … the fact that each one is a piece of work , so much has gone into it that it 's something very special , and I understand that it 's very nerve-wracking for them to offer it , to perform it …
24 In this corpus we find that it is very rare for an ellipsis to occur without a linguistic antecedent , and in those cases where one does , it is usually for special effect .
25 That is what I have in my kitchen and I find that it is very simple to lift and scrub the tiles that take the most punishment , like the ones by the cooker .
26 So I always try to do that but I , I , again I find that it 's very erm very tiring and it 's very , gets very can get very involved with it , so I would like us , I 'd like you to think of the idea of a social secretary to help with the raffles and organizing what 's going on at the meetings please .
27 Yes , I feel that it 's very much a case that they have things done to them all the time and our pupils , a lot of them , are quite sort of apathetic in decision-making and are quite happy to accept , or appear to be happy to accept , whatever anybody decides should be done for them , to them .
28 Er we feel that it 's very important that we do have an additional ten so that er what before next day to Royston and initially on a temporary basis erm for at er er Watford so we address the problems in those areas .
29 I feel that it is very important that everybody playing tennis has good technique .
30 However , it is important to realise that it is very difficult for a speaker to make a syllable louder without changing other characteristics of the syllable such as those explained below ( ii-iv ) ; if one literally changes only the loudness , the perceptual effect is not very strong .
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