Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [adv] [prep] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after the second programme Yorkshire Television installed block heaters throughout the house in lieu of a fee , so Low Birk Hatt was heated properly for the very first time . |
| 2 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 3 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 4 | The National ( or Conservative ) majority of 425 seats in October 1931 was reduced only to the very substantial one of 247 in November 1935 . |
| 5 | This power , however , was to be used according to the rules of the American Constitution , not as a means to a dictatorship like that which Hitler was setting up at the very same time in Germany . |