Example sentences of "of very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of UK groups reached 300 in the early 1980s and has remained around that level ever since — groups of very high quality and certainly not based on ‘ ephemeral enthusiasms ’ ! |
| 2 | Objects disappear , and for a man of 29 he seems to have grabbed hold of very little of anything except a glass and a book . |
| 3 | ‘ But , sweety pie , I am — what 's it you keep saying ? — a bear of very little brain . ’ |
| 4 | We are in the presence of very great evil , my friends , and the little grey cells must not be denied . ’ |
| 5 | Flowering mid-season ‘ James Grieve ’ is almost guaranteed to give a good crop of very juicy fruit with fine , slightly acid flavour , lovely both for cooking and for eating . |
| 6 | Do more circuit planning flights with the last five hundred feet of the altimeter covered and try to guess ahead of time what the height and position will be ( not in feet , but in terms of very high , about right , or rather low ) . |
| 7 | The forces produced in the individual on such occasions , in what Jung ( 1964 ) calls a ‘ journey to individuation ’ , manifest themselves in a number of very persuasive ways and in this case led to some radical reassessments of the existing moral , philosophic , political , and aesthetic order . |
| 8 | ‘ And then there 's vegetables , ’ said Jamie , ‘ A pound of very firm carrots please , Mr Greengrocer … ’ |
| 9 | In this case , you should put him on to the defensive by maintaining a series of very strong attacks delivered from the correct distance . |
| 10 | But here a thin frieze of very old trees had been preserved for the delectation of the lairds who looked out from their houses on the slopes — Cluny , Grandtully , Clochfoldich , Pitcastle . |
| 11 | And it is extremely sophisticated : we can pick out our chosen voice from an overlapping background of very similar sounds . |
| 12 | What I now want to suggest is that there is a lot of very successful science currently being conducted which literally depends on functionalism being true . |
| 13 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 14 | Fat fish in laburnum ( above ) ‘ I have always made things , ’ says Ned , ‘ and while on a boating holiday on the Thames about 15 years ago I found a branch of very dark wood lying on the ground . |
| 15 | Your wheel certainly appears original and of very good quality and I am sure if tuned would spin quite well . |
| 16 | This might seem to be moving away from Golyadkin , but in point of tone The Double and The Possessed draw closest to one another , and to Don Quixote , in the ludicrous materialities of preparation , and in their juxtaposing of very particular odds and ends with an airy universality which in lesser hands would be emptiness . |
| 17 | However the presence of very large fundamental and odd harmonic components in the output makes the isolation of the small even harmonics a very daunting task . |
| 18 | This is seen as using RDS as a data channel of very limited capacity in conjunction with a speech synthesis chip or possibly some form of printer in the car ( it could provide automatic translation when travelling abroad ) as a means of sending ‘ traffic telegrams ’ to cars without interrupting the radio programmes . |
| 19 | This was in The New English Weekly , a London journal of very limited circulation ; there appears to have been no comparable acknowledgement in the poet 's native land . |
| 20 | The reliquary was a fine specimen of that type of art and of very good quality and in fine condition . |
| 21 | The CRE organised a series of three seminars in order to bring together people of very different points of view and evolve a broad consensus on some of the large issues raised by the Rushdie affair . |
| 22 | But they do n't like physical hockey , unlike the French , who are capable of very physical hockey . |
| 23 | The overriding purpose of policing as perceived by ordinary policemen and women is to uphold the law , which requires typifications of very general use and applicability which distinguish between those who keep and those who break the law . |
| 24 | Someone brought me a mess tin half full of very hot tea ; it tasted good . |
| 25 | Taff thrust a mug of very hot tea into my hands . |
| 26 | As I clambered out of the trench and sat on the grass with my back to a tree he handed me a mess-tin full of very tasty Machonachie stew which I soon polished off . |
| 27 | As we marched out of the farm the Commando behind me thrust a mug full of very tasty wine into my hand . |
| 28 | No matter how small the sample size , however , it would obscure the analysis to group readers of very different papers , such as the Guardian and the Telegraph , together . |
| 29 | A real fifties style , it was made of very thin ciré and looked almost like a dress , with its circular skirt and stand-up collar . |
| 30 | I do n't think what you run makes any difference , because I 've run companies of very diverse natures and the principles that apply to British Steel at one end apply equally to a small company at the other end of the scale . |