Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] the very [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But new research suggests the very damage caused by humans could itself be countered by violent volcanic activity . |
| 2 | ‘ The elderly parent reflects the very fear which the midlife person feels . |
| 3 | Bill Clinton 's ominous rhetoric in Washington threatens the very source of its prosperity : exports . |
| 4 | ‘ Sarrasine represents the very confusion [ le trouble même ] of representation ’ ( p. 216 ) , and precisely because of this , representation is replaced by reflexivity . |
| 5 | Indeed , this room represents the very beginning of the Rococo in Prague . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | john tomlinson scrapes the very throat of his character , squeezes all the passion , nobility and madness out of him ( boris ) |
| 8 | Temporal turbulence stretches the very fabric of reality and folds it back on itself . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yet the record of Charles 's actions demonstrates the very opposite : his determined pursuit of his own right to a kingdom in Francia set him and Lothar on a collision course . |
| 11 | The animal rights movement threatens the very core of what the Public Health Service is all about … . |
| 12 | The account presupposes the very concept , redness , the acquisition of which it is meant to explain . |
| 13 | Pool controls the very fabric of this station . |
| 14 | Though Eleanor Darcy denies the very concept of ‘ right ’ . |
| 15 | As source of fertility , Doris dislikes the very essence of life just as much as Sweeney finds it tedious to ‘ drink this booze ’ and ‘ have a tune ’ , |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Linstead Market celebrates the very place where White was born , and brings a delightful lyric about buying and selling that is only half comprehensible to a non-West-Indian ear . |