Example sentences of "[verb] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that I think Carrick will win very much but at least they would be recognised as serious contenders . |
| 2 | People at all levels of the organization can accomplish very much more than they are asked to under contemporary conventions . |
| 3 | ‘ He has responded very well to chemotherapy so the question of radiotherapy has not risen again . |
| 4 | In March 1988 considerable consternation was created , not least among teachers who had generally responded very positively to the TGAT report , by the leak of a letter about the report from the Prime Minister 's secretary to Kenneth Baker 's secretary . |
| 5 | I am pleased that they have responded very positively . |
| 6 | The magistrate told Long : ‘ You put yourself in charge of a lethal weapon and posed very grave dangers to innocent members of the public . ’ |
| 7 | Former England captain Chris Cowdrey was more critical , saying : ‘ Keith Fletcher said before the tour that he thought India posed very few problems . |
| 8 | Now two groups have reported very high yield synthesis and separations of fullerenes ( see D. H. Parker et al , J. Am . |
| 9 | It tells you that it is reported very crisply , very briefly . |
| 10 | Our kirk session was one which objected very strenuously to the use seven times of the male pronoun in the section on the holy spirit . |
| 11 | Someone with short-term memory loss lives very much in the present and is able to enjoy what they do , even if they can not recall it a few minutes later . |
| 12 | They reveal that , amazingly , he is ‘ a nice man who … lives very quietly ’ . |
| 13 | It happened when I was forced on to a very low fat diet for health reasons ( I had a gall bladder that grumbled very painfully when I ate fatty food ) . |
| 14 | If you are not going to confine your search to the agencies then you must consider very carefully what your options are . |
| 15 | This problem is certainly not restricted to mathematics and the program designer and teaching team should consider very carefully the various presentations they would like to have available . |
| 16 | Upon this ground alone I venture to think that your Lordship 's House might consider very seriously whether you are justified in passing this Bill into Law … |
| 17 | Inequality of power and advantage has been an extremely common , if not universal , feature of human societies , even if the degree of inequality has varied very greatly . |
| 18 | The puzzle was that the times one had to wait for this to happen varied very greatly from nucleus to nucleus , despite there being only small changes in the circumstances involved . |
| 19 | This brief discussion of land tenure , occupancy and inheritance systems has illustrated the general argument that how people have collectively organized their survival and reproduction has varied very substantially over space and time . |
| 20 | A recent exhibition of Mills and Boon front covers over seventy-five years of publishing demonstrates that the packaging of their company image , ‘ the rose of romance ’ , has not varied very much since . |
| 21 | The practice and provision has varied very widely across the country . |
| 22 | They 'll be silent or cheer very loud |
| 23 | The idealism of this approach is obvious , and it is not pursued very far . |
| 24 | This is because Japanese corporations place very little emphasis on merger as a mechanism of growth or diversification of business . |
| 25 | Hellebores are available in an enormous variety of shades and markings , all of which press very successfully indeed , but none more so than the plum-coloured Helleborus atrorubens . |
| 26 | Your eventual goal is to be able to work very hard for a full three minutes , followed after a one-minute active break by a second three-minute workout . |
| 27 | However , a difficulty with extra-mural study is that teachers have to work very hard in order to keep classes in being , since there are no external compulsions on students to attend , and their motivation and level of interest are very variable . |
| 28 | He admired so many qualities in Fisher : the shrewdness about people , the grasp of practical problems , the ability to work very long hours , the patience under abuse from the press , the humility which went with a cocksureness that was not arrogance . |
| 29 | The drivers of the all-conquering Silver Arrows had to work very , very hard to overcome these challenges but the race was decided by an extraordinary series of mishaps that befell this normally super-slick team . |
| 30 | I 've got Marc Bolan who wants to record day and night and is keen to go , and I might as well put my energies into him because you really do n't want to work very hard . ’ |