Example sentences of "[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 | The result was indeed improved if , of necessity , very basic housing , at a rent low enough for the very poor to pay . |
| 3 | It is an expedition only for the very fit : weaklings and novices must expect to perish . |
| 4 | However , we have been able to solve the equation only for the very simplest system , the hydrogen atom , consisting of one proton and one electron . |
| 5 | I must emphasise that this is only for the very good golfer . |
| 6 | Erm and also to prevent the handicapped people and perhaps for the very elderly it can be a little bit of an adventure . |
| 7 | He joined the Puffin Bookshop in the summer of 1985 and quickly established himself as someone with a deep interest in books for children , especially for the very young , and won the hearts of customers , fellow members of staff and publishers visiting the shop , not to mention the many authors and illustrators who gave their time freely for the events and signings at the bookshop . |
| 8 | Table 16–2 shows that the first Thatcher government was able to reduce marginal tax rates substantially , especially for the very rich . |
| 9 | Table 16–3 shows a worldwide move to cut tax rates , especially for the very rich . |
| 10 | In Table 16–2 we saw that the Thatcher government succeeded in reducing marginal tax rates , especially for the very rich . |
| 11 | It is only after the very last entity has been displayed that any quantitative evaluation can be performed . |
| 12 | For more of the immaculate touch drumming of Philly Joe Jones — but I 'm afraid without much in the way of quality in the supporting cast — try ‘ Mo'Joe ’ from 1968 on Black Lion ( for Jones alone ) ; brushwork especially of the very highest order . |
| 13 | This is so notwithstanding the very strong public interest in preserving the life and health of all citizens . |
| 14 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 15 | The ballad-type songs of the day sung by such as Tony Bennett , Rosemary Clooney , Doris Day , Debbie Reynolds and Frank Sinatra , plus the great classical music she had heard from her youth , facilitated Masha Cohen 's overcoming of her personal nightmares , and had become — along with the very important Yiddish music — the natural background to Leonard 's life , too . |
| 16 | Taken together with the very large percentage of investment in heavy industry held by foreign interests , this presented a formidable obstacle to the emergence of a politically powerful business lobby . |
| 17 | The youthful Preludes and Fugues of 1856–7 are included , together with the very late set of 11 Chorale Preludes , Op. 122 , impressive for their combination of contrapuntal mastery and romantic feeling . |
| 18 | Because of the clear survival of settlement earthworks and areas of ridge and furrow in this part of Somerset , together with the very good RAF air photographs of 1947 , we can see the extent and plan of all these settlements . |
| 19 | Rudling added a giant of a conversion so Gloucester were 12-9 down until the very last kick of the game which turned out to be a penalty . |
| 20 | They treated me quite naturally from the very first — and I myself felt quite at home . |
| 21 | When Talbot returned to the bridge he could see the marker buoy just astern , bobbing gently in the very small wake Van Gelder was creating as he edged the Ariadne gently to the north-west . |
| 22 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 23 | They had been long debated , but it should be emphasized how few individuals at this time believed that poverty could actually be eliminated , except perhaps in the very long run . |
| 24 | We may also assume that thereafter the police officers abstained , as was their duty under Code C , from conducting any further interviews with the applicant in relation to the offence with which he had been charged , save perhaps in the very limited respects permitted by Code C , to which I shall later refer . |
| 25 | And many an insect was saved , perhaps from the very same predator , by an uncannily close resemblance to a twig , on occasions when the predator happened to be seeing it at relatively close range and in a good light . |
| 26 | In the individual 's mental life someone else is invariably involved , as a model , as an object , as a helper , as an opponent ; and so from the very first individual psychology , in this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words , is at the same time social psychology as well . |
| 27 | It is only in the very last paragraph that there is a distinctly evangelical position in the Party 's platform . |
| 28 | This implies that a trade-off between unemployment and inflation may exist only in the very short term . |
| 29 | Available presently only in the very earliest of guises from some OSF member companies , DCE 's main competitor is Sun Microsystems Inc 's diametrically opposed Open Network Computing environment , which has some two million installations . |
| 30 | If a ship was intended for patrolling the sea , it had to be equipped to take part in action against the enemy : the building of castles , fore and aft , and , in the fifteenth century , the possible installation of cannon on the deck ( guns were placed below decks , to fire out of ‘ ports ’ , only in the very first years of the sixteenth century ) had to be carried out . |