Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] is [adv] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second vulnerable industrial sector identified in the study is that also characterised by high non-tariff barriers , but where there is currently very little intra-EC trade . |
| 2 | 13 1775 & that Body is vastly improv 'd the longer it is kept & the little remains of fat shine a little more thro' & it is now very much the colour of Indian Copper , i.e. it is very near the colour of finished work 'd mahogany & is really a beautiful mass , the Legs are now perfectly dry and from the Beginning to the end there is nothing of putrefaction . |
| 3 | In the case of Baudrillard , this appears to have been a self-fulfilling prophecy , and he is mainly quoted today within the avant-garde arts , where he is indeed very much in vogue ( Frankovits ed. 1984 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Her name is Maybelle Foy — Stair says that she is not very pretty , but is enormously rich . ’ |
| 5 | One might add , however , that there is generally very little weather in most of Dickens 's country cottages either , although one finds a good deal of it in his towns . |
| 6 | The theory of the new international division of labour has been criticized for its uncompromising condemnation of TNC operations in the Third World , on the grounds that there is not very much that is new about it and that it relies on an empirical base that is far too limited ( see , for example , Cohen , 1987 , ch.7 ; Jenkins , 1984 ; Gordon , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | REM are back after a period of self-imposed reinvention , and ‘ Out Of Time ’ is easily their most eclectic and wildly inspired album yet , although it is still very identifiably REM — a brand new book from a familiar author . |
| 8 | Although it is always very tempting to think of taking on a dog from a rescue centre , so offering it a good home , this can prove problematic in the long term , unless you know the dog 's background . |
| 9 | Peter Davenport is now 60 years old , and although he is still very much in charge , he has begun to show signs of wanting to take things more easily . |
| 10 | Indeed , his treatment of this first book ( and we shall see that it is not very dissimilar from the others ) is a blatant piece of eisogesis — reading into ( as opposed to exegesis , out of ) the text what he wishes to see , or rather plant . |
| 11 | However , as Voltaire famously observed , the trouble with common sense is that it is not very common — least of all , it seems , among research scientists . |
| 12 | If that fails to dissuade you , you will be told that it is not very nice : it is frightening and ghoulish . |
| 13 | It is often said that it is not very easy to turn an omelette back into eggs . |
| 14 | She thought briefly of AIDS and added : ‘ For one thing , they 've learnt that it is n't very wise … but not because it 's immoral , Johnny . |
| 15 | Both class relations and gender relations , while they exist within their own histories , can nevertheless be so closely interwoven that it is theoretically very difficult to draw them apart within specific historic conjunctures . |
| 16 | But is , is , is is it possible that it is actually very useful to have classes , to , to have inequalities ? |
| 17 | The Government were part of the process of blocking the directive until it was so badly mauled that it is now very different from the one that we first saw and debated in the House a month ago . |
| 18 | Any other small mammal of this size would quickly be squashed to death , but when he steps off it after several minutes , the hero shrew reveals that it is still very much alive by trying to escape . |
| 19 | That it is still very much a family business is revealed by the manner in which staff refer to their chairman as Mr Sandy . |
| 20 | This means that it is very very quiet indeed . |
| 21 | The reason behind this two-stage approach is that it is often very difficult for the viewers of the demonstration to understand the principles of how a product works while at the same time watching it work . |
| 22 | Incredibly , it is almost impossible even to return a detective to uniform simply on the grounds that he is n't very good . |
| 23 | I think that we must wait and see what his detailed policies will be , but everything that I have seen and heard suggests that he is certainly very understanding of the situation in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | ‘ She is back home now and she is still very upset . |
| 25 | Very often florists ' flowers are received in the form of bouquets or presentation arrangements , and one is always very reluctant to press immediately some of the flowers that have so kindly been sent . |
| 26 | On the other hand it has to be said that the er publicity for that does not seem to have penetrated very far amongst foreign visitors and there is n't very much evidence that foreign visitors have been put off coming here in spite of the considerable number of incidents that there have been in this country , particularly in London of course in the last year or so . |
| 27 | The fact is that the pace towards a federal Europe is quickening and there is now very little , save the Danes and the British Parliament , which lies in its way . |
| 28 | right , if there is n't very much of that fluid , there 's very little fluid , there 'll be more pressure on the baby wo n't there ? |
| 29 | Tender fuchsias will grow in practically any soil , provided it is n't very heavy and wet . |
| 30 | One important basis of comparison between countries is their size , and it is clearly very relevant to an appreciation of the relative levels of economic growth and development achieved by any country , to know roughly among how many people the social product , however large or small , has to be divided . |