Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cuts under the MacSharry proposals would fall most heavily upon the very big millionaire farmers — we do not have those in Wales . |
| 2 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 3 | This is not the doctrine adopted by Finnis and I would have to show that the arguments applied here could be applied equally effectively to the very much more sophisticated account presented in Natural Law and Natural Rights . |
| 4 | Some of the larger birds , like the blackbirds and thrushes , often risk a little dive-bombing , in which they swoop down on the owl from a distance of about 30 feet , heading straight for it , and then swerve aside only at the very last moment , when they are no more than a foot away . |
| 5 | For there is a dilemma along the way — expressed so poignantly by the very young pregnant schoolgirl who , in response to the question : " But did n't they tell you about sex in school ? " replied " Oh yes , they told me what to do — but nobody said how much I 'd want to do it ! " |
| 6 | Hijras ( eunuchs ) are referred to in the very earliest of Hindu texts , the Vedas , written in the second millennium B C. Here castration was seen as a degrading punishment meted out only to the very lowest in society . |
| 7 | There are also indoor pelota courts , called trinquets , which , to the lay eye anyway , can look like royal tennis courts , and where yet other forms of pelota are played , usually professionally ( I well remember , from my youth , that the then world real tennis champion was a Basque , a celebrated player who no doubt grew up democratically playing pelota and then switched easily enough to the very exclusive game of real or royal tennis ) . |
| 8 | The theories in question arose originally out of a joining together of empirical research and clinical observation , some of which go right back to the very earliest descriptions of schizophrenia and it is therefore instructive to consider , first , what Bleuler himself believed to be the essential features of the ‘ disease ’ that he had named . |
| 9 | No one was , however , and life went on normally until the very last moment . |
| 10 | It is what makes the difference between the phrase ( 30 ) , where the first-order relation is of course qualification , and the completeness of ( 31 ) : ( 30 ) lucky Gomez ( 31 ) Gomez is lucky Similarly , this is the difference which opposes ( 32 ) and ( 33 ) , where the relation assigned is equation rather than qualification : ( 32 ) the broker , a man in a grey suit ( 33 ) the broker was a man in a grey suit The notion of " completeness " may seem vague ; again , however , we should not expect it to be defined more closely for the very good reason that fundamental notions — and we take assignment together with equation and qualification , along with the ideas of entity and property , to be the bedrock of linguistic structure — do not allow themselves to be defined . |