Example sentences of "[vb -s] the very [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse . |
| 4 | Indeed , this room represents the very beginning of the Rococo in Prague . |
| 5 | ‘ Sarrasine represents the very confusion [ le trouble même ] of representation ’ ( p. 216 ) , and precisely because of this , representation is replaced by reflexivity . |
| 6 | As such , it is the most important element in the structure of the clause as a message because it represents the very information that the speaker wants to convey to the hearer . |
| 7 | In fact , the support for these figures represents the very antithesis of the anti-black , anti-foreigner message , which brought the National Front its success in the 1970s and , more recently , Le Pen his votes in France . |
| 8 | Sadly for them , their response to it works against them and encourages the very behaviour they fear most . |
| 9 | john tomlinson scrapes the very throat of his character , squeezes all the passion , nobility and madness out of him ( boris ) |
| 10 | Jane 's Addiction have a third album , ‘ Ritual Do Lo Habitual ’ , which challenges the very ethos of rock music . |
| 11 | He reflects the glory of God , and bears the very stamp of his nature , upholding the universe by the word of his power . ’ |
| 12 | As it checks the very evidence from which all archaeological interpretation is derived , this basic experimentation is the most important , although the least spectacular . |
| 13 | It concerns the very identity of farming . |
| 14 | Temporal turbulence stretches the very fabric of reality and folds it back on itself . |
| 15 | The dissenting member may be able to protest , by analogy with customary international law : a State that protests from the outset is not bound by the rule , while protest negates the very possibility of estoppel . |
| 16 | I accept Michelangelo 's Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel , which destroys the wall ; and I accept the Sistine Chapel 's ceiling as well , which completely distorts the very notion of ceiling . |
| 17 | X causes Y which in turn causes Z ’ ; while a mediating variable ‘ is one which shapes the very relationship between the two other variables : Y causes the way in which X affects Z ’ ( 1979 : 23 ) . |
| 18 | The danger is that in responding without thought to this ephemeral demand the essential ingredient which creates the very tourist experience — the landscape , both natural and man-made — will be permanently disfigured . |
| 19 | Pop that seduces as it unravels the very iconography/mythology ( absolute love , the perfect girl ) which drives it . |
| 20 | Perhaps a future generation will come to recognize that the most misguided , though well intentioned , feature of our present age was that , having discovered by the methods of genuine science that man is a single zoological species and thus a unity in his physical nature , we tried , by political coercion and propaganda , to impose on man , as cultural moral being , a comparable sense of unity which contradicts the very essence of our human nature . |
| 21 | We have tried to build on the uncertainty that surrounds the very definition of the inner city , firstly to examine the utility of particular cases of state intervention ( Part I of the book ) , then to highlight some of the misconceptions that have informed political initiatives in the inner city ( Part 2 ) and finally to present alternative perspectives on community mobilisation , entrepreneurship and urban crisis in the inner city ( Part 3 ) . |
| 22 | Whilst Brennan accepted that " desecration of the flag is deeply offensive to many " , he emphasized that punishing such behaviour " dilutes the very freedom that makes this emblem so revered and so worth revering " . |
| 23 | ‘ It reflects the very bigotry which women have had to fight against . |
| 24 | ‘ The elderly parent reflects the very fear which the midlife person feels . |
| 25 | There is Totes not far away on the Dieppe road , and the famous old Hotel des Cygnes where Guy de Maupassant wrote Boule de Suif and where the proprietor appears the very embodiment of Norman robustness . |
| 26 | She seems the very essence of kindness and honesty . |
| 27 | Here in Mixed Life , a text that must be seen in relation to Scale 1 and Scale 2 , Hilton adumbrates the same progress in chapter fourteen : Following Augustinian theology , he locates the very essence of Christian life in the continual sustained desire for God — the only way in this life to perceive the nature of the love which joins God and man 's soul . |
| 28 | Ironically , this insistence on ‘ greatness ’ tends to homogenise the artist 's production and denies the very multiplicity of reception which Bachert 's research establishes . |
| 29 | Though Eleanor Darcy denies the very concept of ‘ right ’ . |
| 30 | It is characteristic of the sickness that even the best-intentioned reformer who uses an impoverished and debased language to recommend renewal , by his adoption of the insidious mode of categorization and the bad philosophy it conceals , strengthens the very power of the established order he is trying to break . |