Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this movement , Hegel saw the very rhythm of reality itself , both as a whole and in every part , and also the dynamics of knowledge and understanding by which the initial gulf between subject and object is bridged in genuine synthesis , the act of cognition . |
| 2 | Ironically , whilst such a group took the very existence of the family to be in danger from permissiveness , the developing radical-feminist position argued that the ‘ talk ’ of permissiveness was a means of disguising the threat that such an institution posed to women 's real chances of liberation : ‘ Rather than posing a threat to traditional patriarchal marriage the sexual revolution strengthened the institution ’ . |
| 3 | Usually the familiar beauty of this place had the very opposite effect on her , but today as she headed towards Loch Lomond she was filled with a terrible sense of doom . |
| 4 | At that period of the nineteenth century when the discipline of anthropology was coming into being , material culture studies represented the very core of this emergent social science ( e.g. Haddon 1895 ; Tylor 1881 ) . |
| 5 | Autocracy appeared the very linchpin of everything that offended a small but intellectually dynamic intelligentsia which was breaking away from the traditional values of the nobility . |
| 6 | Alfonso XIII 's complicity in the dictatorship and undermining of the monarchy 's own constitution tarnished the very principle of monarchy and gave republicanism a tremendous boost , especially once Primo de Rivera 's early popularity had deserted him . |
| 7 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 8 | The movement exposed the very thing she had come expecting to find : a large jute bag . |
| 9 | That piece of cord contained the very wire that could be used to fix the car . |
| 10 | With his wild dashing looks — aquiline nose , sweeping moustaches and a mop of shining hair — Tritsis looked the very image of the ‘ clepht ’ , the mountain warlords who carried the torch of Greek independence in the last century . |
| 11 | Morvael died the very morning after his armies achieved victory . |
| 12 | Through beer , talk and that danger referred to by Robert Hardy ( 'he breathed the very air of danger ’ ) , he became a man to reckon with . |
| 13 | Attlee attacked the very basis of the perception that the Mediterranean was crucial to Britain in time of war , arguing that with the development of air power the resources needed to protect sea routes from Gibraltar to Suez would be impossible to find . |
| 14 | In addition , the progressively violent and pandemonious reality suggested by television 's own reports created the very conditions in which a law-and-order rhetoric could flourish virtually unchallenged . |
| 15 | And cultural modernism , in challenging such identity , at the same time challenged the very structure of the German state . |
| 16 | Close behind him followed Alain Lemarchand , looking more suspicious than intrigued , and Glyn said the very thing she had been praying for . |