Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to be very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The additional notes and comments proved very useful — in particular , the section on drug survival in clinical samples that are being irradiated as an anti-HIV precaution , which should prove to be very useful to those working in this area . |
| 2 | The truth is that learning new skills does take time , and progress may appear to be very slow . |
| 3 | Particular activities in the form of classroom tasks may appear to be very different and to represent quite distinct views of pedagogy but on closer consideration to be consistent with the same underlying principle of approach . |
| 4 | Harris , Heston claimed , may appear to be very strong , but he ‘ does seem to be one of those people who seemed to enjoy ill health . |
| 5 | ‘ You 'll need to be very careful , personally , in dealing with an addict . ’ |
| 6 | There might appear to be very little to navigate by , from the quarter-point to past the three-quarter point , but that is n't true . |
| 7 | the role of Ptah might appear to be very definitive , but it offers a particular explanation of existence . |
| 8 | But if you want to play with her , you 'll have to be very good . |
| 9 | Christina looked at her pink-toned skin and said , ‘ You 'll have to be very careful . |
| 10 | I 'll have to be very tactful . ’ |
| 11 | Well , you 'll have to be very better tomorrow before we went swimming . |
| 12 | But I 'll have to be very careful with it I I do expect , I would expect , that there would be inquiries for that kind of investment here erm it 's just that we have n't any major ones in the last couple of years of that type because the overall framework here is opposed to it . |
| 13 | So there we are , lines are open , three double one , one double one , I see one or two are ringing already , you 'll have to be very quick . |
| 14 | Give somebody a lift and take cash for it and we 've got you , so you might have to be very careful who you travel with , if you get my drift . ’ |
| 15 | I 'd like to be very clear here that emotionally and using emotions now against your intellect , I think it 's very dangerous and it is we like to avoid this . |
| 16 | I think first of all , I 'd like to be very brief , but just to say the purpose of this short report with the appendices has not got any special status with food control , just set the record straight as to what we are capable of doing currently and what we ca n't do . |
| 17 | She 'd have to be very hard-up before she would take a man like him . |
| 18 | You you 'd have to be very er very hard line for me to notice it . |
| 19 | ‘ You could get to be very popular back in the city-states , Doc . ’ |
| 20 | For a start the required reduction in the price level may have to be very large indeed before it has a significant impact on aggregate spending . |
| 21 | Used to have to be very rather experienced in them days to do this here net mending . |
| 22 | Each case is considered very much on its merits — there are no hard and fast criteria — but they would need to be very sure of your motives in adopting . |
| 23 | Evidence to justify the court 's declining to decide a case ( if such a course is ever justified ) would need to be very strong and specific . |
| 24 | But , if the wife has been in receipt of the advice of a stranger whom the creditor believes on reasonable grounds to be competent , independent and disinterested , then the circumstances would need to be very exceptional before the creditor could be held bound by any equity which otherwise might arise from the husband 's conduct and his wife 's actual failure to understand the transaction … |
| 25 | Even if our ears could respond to sounds of this pitch , we would need to be very close by to eavesdrop on their conversations . |
| 26 | I shall not comment further , except to say that the consequences of such a step would need to be very carefully weighed . |
| 27 | We will look later at whether this sort of action would be sufficient to answer the question of legal status of the e-mail ‘ record ’ and how this extraction process would need to be very clearly structured and closely managed to allow such routine deletion . |
| 28 | Alternative architectures including some parallelisation would appear to be very useful for this situation ( see figure 6.2 ) . |
| 29 | At first glance , it would appear to be very much the creature of the Scottish Office , when in fact it should be a buffer acting at arm 's length from the Scottish Office . |
| 30 | There 's a part of me that would like to be very cocky and self-assured . |