Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv] [prep] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | This implies that a trade-off between unemployment and inflation may exist only in the very short term . |
| 2 | It should be receptive to pressures for changes in its structure to take account of what oppressed groups say — for instance , it should move away from the very formalized committee structure towards a participative workshop-type framework . |
| 3 | If there is any truth , then , in the tradition of the connection between Seyyid Serif and Molla Fenari and one must beware here of the very common tendency of writers to associate great figures of the past with each other , sometimes in flagrant defiance of the facts and if the facts about the former are reasonably accurate , Molla Fenari would have arrived in Egypt about 772/1370 . |
| 4 | Like all actors with reviews , he checked through it for quotability , and decided that , with only slight injustice to the meaning , and the excision of a comma , he could come up with the very serviceable sentence , ‘ Charles Paris grows in stature through the evening . ’ |
| 5 | Likewise , the distinctive black and yellow ichneumon wasp Amblyteles armatorius will crawl in beside the very same moth caterpillars that it may later parasitise with its eggs . |