Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] [be] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward I may well have had similar goals for England , Aquitaine and Ponthieu ( a clearer definition of feudal obligations , a shortening of the links in the tenurial chain and a more precise knowledge of the military service owed to him ) but the means by which those ends might be attained were very different . |
| 2 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 3 | Subjects which may be investigated are very wide-ranging and may be drawn from history , the environment , politics , culture or from issues of local concern — housing , consumer issues , education etc . |
| 4 | The exceptional circumstances in which execution may be refused are very narrowly defined . |
| 5 | Such approaches have been applied to cursive words of English ( Frishkopf and Harmon 1961 ; Harmon , 1962b ; Earnest , 1962 ; Farag , 1979 ; Brown and Ganapathy , 1980 ) , but to achieve any degree of accuracy the vocabulary which can be recognised is very small . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , video imaging systems are not very tolerant of contrast , and the range of brightness between the lightest and darkest areas of a picture which can be reproduced is very much less for video than it is for ordinary colour photography . |
| 7 | Then the range of speeds that can be measured is very wide ; fractional Doppler shifts as small as 10 -15 can be measured and thus speeds down to less than — far lower than those normally encountered in fluid dynamics — though not all systems are capable of this . |