Example sentences of "have [be] very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 2 | I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’ |
| 3 | In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven . |
| 4 | In fact , we do run a project which looks at the ways science can be taught in the first school , which has been very surprising to me and many of my colleagues by what can actually be done with children in the ages of five to seven . |
| 5 | The nature of those policies with their emphases on private sector developments , home ownership and small businesses , suggests that in part at least the Government is seeking to produce electoral change by introducing traditional Conservative supporters to areas where the party has been very weak — as , for example , in many of the residential developments in London 's Docklands . |
| 6 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 7 | Their performance has been very poor . |
| 8 | It has been very poor weather this week and that influences traffic and pedestrians . ’ |
| 9 | Lacan has been very influential , although he is an almost impenetrably obscure writer . |
| 10 | I have spent so much time on the status consciousness explanation because it has been very influential , and because Nichols shows how it can be reinterpreted with more satisfactory results . |
| 11 | The psychoanalytic view has been very influential , leading to an implicit definition of women as wives and mothers to the virtual exclusion of any other life-area . |
| 12 | The idea that industrialization created the relatively isolated nuclear family has been very influential in the sociology of the family and has stimulated a wide range of studies , many of which have been critical . |
| 13 | But basically the idea , erm , is I think well represented by er , by Rousseau , and it 's a view that has been very influential , for instance , in modern education , and some people would say it explains the disaster that erm th that some people think er modern education is . |
| 14 | Avedis Donabedian , an American pioneer of quality assurance in health care in the United States whose work has been very influential in the United Kingdom , modelled quality as a dynamic relationship between structure , process and outcomes . |
| 15 | Erm , this whole area of learning theory is a very traditional area but it has it has been very influential actually very recently , despite being very ancient . |
| 16 | ‘ It has been very sad for me , ’ she says . |
| 17 | The newly-appointed C E O , Gary who took over at the end of the year when Gill retired has been very involved in these restructuring efforts and has been working very effectively and is on top of the situation , and although three swallows may not make a summer , I can at least tell you that Camco has traded profitably in each of the first three months of nineteen ninety three and now I 'd like to hand you over to Frank , who will talk about the rest of our business . |
| 18 | Our new president Joe Barnes has been very involved with the affairs of the veterans . |
| 19 | The reaction to Mrs Chamorro has been very strong and it 's beginning to worry Ortega . ’ |
| 20 | The inquiry reported that the evidence which they had received to date did not prove conclusively that such activities had taken place , but ‘ in some instances circumstantial evidence in support of the complaint has been very strong ’ ( NCCL , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | The health service in Scotland has a slightly different structure and its own separate laws , but here the centralizing tendency for control from London has been very strong . |
| 22 | The Canadian market has been very strong , which is important for Reed Tool which has a big market share up there for its drill bits . |
| 23 | The pound has been very strong recently , particularly in the United States , where they 've got a weak dollar , and we have to put over the message that there are tremendous deals to be had erm both in air fares and when you get here in terms of hotel rates erm and in terms of prices of food and so forth . |
| 24 | ‘ A little to the west of the house is an old , ruinous chapel , unroofed , which never has been very curious . |
| 25 | She comments , ‘ I doubt if my working life has been well organised enough to call it a career , but running various businesses has been very satisfying ’ . |
| 26 | SMALL businesses do not seem to know about the industrial building allowances introduced last November , and the uptake has been very disappointing , David Wilson , chairman of Wilson Bowden , the Midlands house-builder and developer , said yesterday . |
| 27 | Ballesteros 's 69 was more of a scramble , particularly over the closing holes , but he got away with it thanks to a short game which has been very consistent both this week and last . |
| 28 | Skipper Alan Kernaghan said : ‘ Pallister has been very consistent and has played a major part in Manchester United 's success . |
| 29 | ‘ We have a good promotion chance and my form has been very consistent . |
| 30 | ‘ Your mother has been very upset indeed by all the publicity about you and Ace Barton . ’ |