Example sentences of "but [adv] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a garage/café where souvenirs of a kind can be bought but only a very good marketing man could come up with something stunning from a spot where most of the time nothing is happening . |
| 2 | On the F-Plan you are asked to drink a generous amount of calorie-free liquid , but only a very modest quantity of calorie-supplying liquid . |
| 3 | Some people , but only a very few , endeavoured to thwart the lucrative customs of the funeral furnisher by specifically requesting a coffin of a type not expected of their situation . |
| 4 | Partly baronial , partly ( but only a very small part ) classical . |
| 5 | Paragon ( HVS ) is an old-style eliminate , a little contrived perhaps , but nonetheless a very good climb . |
| 6 | A few years back , my mother was staying with us ; a lady of advancing years but still a very keen angler . |
| 7 | Prices elsewhere among the watercolours are in the £250/£350 bracket , but still a very worthwhile investment . |
| 8 | Elsewhere , Spain 's was not only an agrarian economy but also a very retarded and unproductive one , upon which was founded an often staggeringly unjust society . |
| 9 | Stretching exercises are not only useful for warming up before a training session begins , but also a very valuable contribution to good kicking techniques . |
| 10 | The tax profession has lost not only a practitioner of the highest calibre but also a very good friend . |
| 11 | He did that and it is very clean , but nowadays a very suburban tabloid , but it 's fresh , it 's pleasant as a result , and that when I quit Rolling Stone . |
| 12 | The more , the more , the more you put in the formula , that more memory it takes , but even a very simple formula , uses up quite a lot of memory . |
| 13 | Not a better job , but certainly a very good job . |
| 14 | And this is a novel which is I suppose an early but certainly a very embryonic attempt to write À la Recherche . |