Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] is [adv] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ She is back home now and she is still very upset . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However misinterpretation is always possible and it is also very possible that Bill is picking up other signals about John which John is not aware he 's sending . |
| 8 | Another reviewer wrote , ‘ This film has , without any doubt , preserved all the qualities of the novel and it is also very well performed . |
| 9 | There are lots of bright and witty numbers but The Language of Love is the nearest to a heart-schmaltzy ballad and it is n't very convincing . |
| 10 | I mean it is a bind , and , and it is n't very pleasant given somebody the sack either . |
| 11 | Some students , there is no denying , are more charismatic and powerful on stage than others — and it is always very difficult for the system to be absolutely fair . |
| 12 | The bond between mother and daughter in Russia is a very strong one and it is still very common for a family of three generations to live together . |
| 13 | A successful corporate financier needs to be more commercial , more extrovert and more ambitious than the average number cruncher , with leadership skills for when he — and it is still very much a male preserve — heads a team . |
| 14 | Old prejudices die hard and it is only very recently that chapels have been noticed at all in guide books or architectural histories . |
| 15 | The idea behind self-service shopping is that goods can ‘ sell themselves ’ , and it is usually very successful . |
| 16 | The organ is described by its devotees as the King of Instruments , and it is certainly very versatile when properly designed . |
| 17 | But none is perhaps very democratic , if any high standard of democracy is applied . |
| 18 | You get somebody who is very outrageous on stage but who is maybe very shy off stage , and I think being on stage in front of an audience enables you to step outside of your own body and be somebody else totally different for that period of time . |
| 19 | But he is already very cold . |
| 20 | The Soviet leader is far from succeeding but he is still very much there , while the East German old guard is looking ever more like yesterday 's men . |
| 21 | In the kingdom of the blind the one-eyed man is king … but he is usually very lonely … |
| 22 | Digitoxin can cause heart irregularities , or arrhythmias , but it is also very useful in the treatment of certain arrhythmias . |
| 23 | The journey is long and , occasionally , stirring ; but it is also very much the same at any one point , especially crossing Kansas , Colorado and Utah , where the landscapes become numbingly familiar . |
| 24 | But it is also very much a question of medium and size . |
| 25 | But it is also very costly — to the individual , to the college and to society generally . |
| 26 | It is most often used in whole group work , but it is also very productive in forum theatre , particularly if the role you take on functions as an obstacle which the class ( or representatives of the class ) have to find their way round by argument , persuasion and compromise . |
| 27 | Suspicious Tit for Tat is technically nasty , but it is not very nasty . |
| 28 | Now this state is approachable in the extreme pastoral communities — the Indians with their bullocks — but it is not very efficient . |
| 29 | I sometimes go down to an 18 when maggot fishing or a single brandling or grain of sweetcorn on a 16 , but it is not very often such refinements are necessary . |
| 30 | The money may not be brilliant , but it is not very different to what I was on last year . |