Example sentences of "[verb] the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 2 | The authors believe the cause of these persistent spells lies in the ability of the short waves to react on the long waves in such a way that , under certain situations , they favour the very pattern that caused them . |
| 3 | You are poisoning the very sources of order and happiness and virtue ; you are tearing up root and branch all relations of families to each other ; you are annulling , as it were , the institution of domestic life decreed by Providence Himself , the wisest and kindest of earthly ordinances , the mainstay of social peace and virtue and therein of national security . |
| 4 | And in the process of course destroying the old Europe , allowing the very thing that , arguably , they were trying to stop from happening , to happen , that is to say , allowing the Russians to advance towards the Elbe , and allowing the Anglo-Saxons as they see it to erm come from the west and taken over the western half of Europe . |
| 5 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |
| 7 | Their mother had hated the very thought of anything that could lessen the love between her and Dana , and she had taught her that the bond between them was only imagination on Claudia 's part . |
| 8 | When our love was young , we would exchange presents — small tokens , often meaningless in themselves , but which seemed to enclose the very essence of their donor . |
| 9 | ’ Typically , Morrissey seems to cherish the very constraints and despondency of a now disappearing England , fetishize the lost limits . |
| 10 | These celebratory fanfares do n't sound as though they might just be heralding the very advent of Slavonic culture . |
| 11 | POP FREQUENTLY benefits from string sections enhancing a song , but here Balanescu has altered the very nature of Kraftwerk — injecting flesh and blood , evoking warmth , passion and feeling where only industry and technology had previously operated . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll put the kettle on , ’ Claudia said ; she wanted something to do — it was silly to feel shy , but there was something between them today that made the very air vibrate . |
| 13 | Arenberg , quoted in US trade magazine Variety , further claims that the US police are set to enforce the very letter of the law . |
| 14 | In it the whole idea of the fertility rite is exploded , using the very forms and devices of the traditional ritual . |
| 15 | A reading of the Act of 1968 , which was based on the draft Bill annexed to the report , leads me to the conclusion that , when using the very words of the draft , Parliament intended to implement the committee 's thinking . |
| 16 | First we felt that women have come a long way given the very radical and novel nature of their demands to enter public life as individuals in their own right . |
| 17 | The collapse of the Provisional Government followed by a separate Russian peace would , Henderson believed , seriously undermine the very possibility of an Allied victory . |
| 18 | Such duplication could cause juristic confusion and undermine the very values intended to be protected . |
| 19 | It penetrated the very substructure of national culture , with the message of traditional capitalism proclaimed in an unusually explicit and aggressive form . |
| 20 | The danger is it could damage the very relations we tend , we need to build . |
| 21 | This produces the effect of a " coincident actualization " observed in sentences such as I saw him swim across the river , which can be depicted as : With auxiliaries , the connection between the infinitive and the verb with which it is in syntactic relation is much more intimate : the auxiliaries used with the infinitive do not merely evoke some other event whose support coincides in time with that of the infinitive — they qualify the very incidence of the infinitive 's event to its extra-verbal support , as actual ( do auxiliary ) or potential ( the modals ) . |
| 22 | Yet it was only by contrast with Fei Yen that these things were noticeable : as if in Fei Yen lay the very archetype of Han beauty , and all else , however fine in itself , was but a flawed copy of that perfection . |
| 23 | It is precisely this formal disturbance in the texture of Nizan 's fiction that constitutes the very essence of his project as a communist novelist . |
| 24 | Bisset , using a description of Taking the Side of the Other as a justification for the tactic , concluded that ‘ there are states of society in which it would be proper to contract the very opinions that it would be right to cherish in other circumstances ’ ( Bisset , 1800 : 269 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ Uncle , I thought that you would like to see the very spot where they burned the books , ’ she said . |
| 26 | Such a clause would not bring the dispute between holists and individualists any nearer to a solution , however , since it begs the very question at issue . |
| 27 | Another , more prolonged and more significant , concerned the very foundations of variable analysis , and by implication the explanatory survey , namely its empiricist inspiration . |
| 28 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 29 | FitzAlan shifted one hand to the nape of her neck , holding her still , while that probing gaze seemed to penetrate the very depths of her soul . |
| 30 | The works in a collection like New Hall 's while they engage with some of these issues about women 's lack and absence from history , at the same time abrogate the very claim that women have not and can not command a semantic field which expresses their own meanings and tells their own stories . |