Example sentences of "to [be] very [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has attempted to be very explicit about what it considers to be unnecessary local expenditure . |
| 2 | Alain Carignon , forty-four , mayor of Grenoble since 1983 , and President of the Department of Isère , is said to be very keen on the post and possible the strongest candidate . |
| 3 | " She seems to be very keen on learning , " she added . |
| 4 | McLeish reflected uncomfortably that he would have to be very circumspect in his dealings with Catherine , with this beady-eyed observer around the place . |
| 5 | But actually one can argue that we should be worried if it turned out to be very easy for chemists to obtain life spontaneously in the test-tube . |
| 6 | A widower 's pension as a right used to be very rare in the public sector , although the civil service has now introduced one . |
| 7 | Those of us who want to go on using the lesion method should n't be too despondent about Wood 's results because the conditions under which a system like this will give double dissociations are likely to be very rare in nature . |
| 8 | Like all booking agents , they have to be very hot on new talent . |
| 9 | ‘ Life is n't going to be very pleasant over the next couple of days if we ca n't spend any time together without arguing . ’ |
| 10 | This is a very important position you 're after , I shall have to be very thorough in checking whether you 're up to it . |
| 11 | This was supposed to be very good for skin problems , but one man was known to have visited it regularly to collect the water for his wife who found it beneficial for her arthritis . |
| 12 | ‘ Kel is going to be very good for our team . |
| 13 | The black mud from the sea shores is said to be very good for the skin . |
| 14 | It 's supposed to be very good for you . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's a mug 's game and I happen to be very good at it . |
| 16 | I think the thing about correspondence courses is that erm y you have to be very good at disciplining yourself |
| 17 | ‘ Of course , I realise that as far as you 're concerned I ca n't possibly hope to fill my predecessor 's shoes , but I do happen to be very good at my job . ’ |
| 18 | I used to be very good at this , I use to . |
| 19 | ‘ I found I had to be very firm with her , or she 'd have run rings around me , and how would she learn ? |
| 20 | Sometimes she had to be very firm with Andrew on the question of her lavish expenditure . |
| 21 | The cost of implementing EC standards is proving to be very serious for Britain 's small and medium sized firms . |
| 22 | Protestants are getting very edgy and unless there is a change in security policy the situation is going to be very serious for every one of us in Northern Ireland . ’ |
| 23 | He hesitated , simply not knowing what to say to the elegant figure opposite him who was so evidently determined , and to whom fantasy seemed to be very close to ordinary life . |
| 24 | The anticipated value used in Section 11.3 and based on penalties is unlikely to be very close to . |
| 25 | You sense his personal ethics to be very close to the surface . |
| 26 | Identical twins were supposed to be very close to each other , and as they were also born under Gemini there was a double bond . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's time you called me Roman — we 're going to be very close to each other until we find Garry , and it wo n't do for you to address me as Mr Wyatt . ’ |
| 28 | There are other ways people have tried to protect the minority , one is by saying that the , that you can generate a certain set of rights from within the democratic procedure in a different way , that is if democracies flourish people need certain liberties , people need to express their own opinions , people need to be able to do what erm assemble where they need to and so on but more common is the view that democracy should be limited by constitutional would present the minority and this is a view that Mill does n't really defend in representative government although it seems to be very close to his view and on liberty , that is we limit the spear that this government has control over so we ca n't , so in this view erm democracy is given a very limited role . |
| 29 | This appears to be very close to the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur . |
| 30 | Indeed the census total usually turns out to be very close to the estimate derived from the previous census figure corrected for intervening births , deaths and net migration . |