Example sentences of "be [adv] a very " in BNC.

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1 ‘ She 's been dead a very long time , has n't she ? ’
2 Food preferences are obviously a very individual matter .
3 While the number and proportion of women in paid employment has increased significantly since the Second World War , there has been only a very small improvement in women 's wages compared with those of men , and little growth in the range of occupations in which women are able to gain employment .
4 Yeah I 'm much must have been only a very young teenager .
5 It perhaps is a function of the early stage of interpreter development in the UK ( though there are only a very few positive indications that the situation is different in other more developed countries ) and one can expect a change of provision , attitude and therefore skill .
6 In addition , because there are only a very few , small sites available for redevelopment , new investors would be pushing out present occupiers if the development were to be economically viable .
7 I think that 's a very good question , I think though that that has been looked at very very thoroughly by the County Council , and certainly there are only a very limited number of options available around York which would actually meet the needs of York .
8 Orfe are generally a very hardy species and can easily withstand the cold winter temperatures that will occur in the pond .
9 I am just a very satisfied user and have no connection whatever with the makers of Carbonflo .
10 I am just a very confused mortal who has to get up and go to work driving a taxi in the morning .
11 The examples of threatened buildings and open spaces covered in the next eighteen sections are just a very small selection of cases with which SAVE has been involved .
12 To them you are just a very large creature who for some unknown reason feeds them , and for that , and that alone , they may give you a grudging sort of respect , if owls have any idea what respect is .
13 ‘ You 're obviously a very good friend , Mrs … ? ’
14 You 're obviously a very busy man . ’
15 You are letting this disappointment — and that 's all it is , you 're still a very well-off young woman — get in the way of everything . ’
16 Like the time when we were having a well-established film star on the show , and the researcher suggested that I should say as an opening gambit , ‘ You 're still a very attractive man , are n't you ? ’
17 ‘ I think that you 're probably a very good husband , but you like to hide your true feelings . ’
18 They were trained as gun-dogs unfortunately , but are nonetheless a very affectionate breed .
19 As a company and as individuals , we are still a very long way from the goals set at the outset of TOP in February 1992 and much remains to be done .
20 Dear Lydia , said her head , you are clearly a very neurotic woman .
21 They are clearly a very cost–effective form of risk assessment ; the situation will have been examined at a level of detail and expertise not usually available to individual companies .
22 Now clearly there are , you know , methodological issues here , who replied on the questionnaire and so on , but there are clearly a very large number of replies , a very large number of students up in the , you know , several hundreds , who perceive themselves to be being sexually harassed .
23 They are also a very ancient group , with many Carboniferous representatives and a number of preferns in the Devonian as well ( plate 59 ) .
24 We are also a very large independent producer of natural gas through Enron Oil & Gas Company and are active in cogeneration and independent power production with extensive experience in combined heat and power installations .
25 For some younger visitors , it was all a little above their heads … they were even wary of the Right Honourable Michael Heseltine … but even for older patrons , like the eminent historian Sir Ernst Gombrich , cartoons are often a very serious business , especially when it comes to being featured yourself .
26 Could this be because ballet lessons are now a very middle-class thing , like ponies ?
27 Sample surveys are now a very common part of life and they are used in market research , in government administration , and so on .
28 Both show him to be fundamentally a very serious musician .
29 Our supposed sample of university students might , just by chance , turn out to be nearly all from the faculty of law , which may be only a very small faculty .
30 It could be only a very moderate charge , in the darkness , since any gallop could have put them into dire trouble over unseen obstacles , whinbushes , ditches and the like .
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