Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the very [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chief Secretary said yesterday that he wanted a serious debate about the economy , yet the ridiculous , but no doubt expensive , campaign that the Government are running is designed to do the very opposite . |
| 2 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 3 | Now I 've finished researching this issue of NI , I have come to hate the very word ‘ population ’ . |
| 4 | Now I 've finished editing this issue of NI , I have come to hate the very word ‘ population ’ . |
| 5 | In modern times we have come to associate the very word ‘ ecology ’ with a concern for the environment — yet ‘ ecology ’ is properly the name of the science that deals with the ways in which living things interact with one another and with their environment . |
| 6 | The opinion evidence was not admissible as it sought to answer the very matter that was for the Special Commissioner 's decision , a question for which the witness was not qualified as an expert . |
| 7 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 8 | When our love was young , we would exchange presents — small tokens , often meaningless in themselves , but which seemed to enclose the very essence of their donor . |
| 9 | In spite of the difficulties caused by the weather , Carrie produced a meal of baked rabbit , potatoes , swede and carrots and put it in front of Seb while the wind rattled the door and windows and an occasional gust seemed to shake the very house itself . |
| 10 | Nellie had grown to detest the very mention of Galloway and she turned to her friends in disgust . |
| 11 | Below the streets were alive with people , all of them bathed in the neon glow that seemed to fill the very air itself with multi-coloured energy . |
| 12 | Terror seemed to permeate the very air . |
| 13 | Failure to conform to directives of priests and bishops were seen to break the very fabric of communion and to allow sin to enter in . |
| 14 | ‘ Uncle , I thought that you would like to see the very spot where they burned the books , ’ she said . |
| 15 | He pointed out that when armaments production and war reaches a certain point , when larger and larger quantities of material goods and labour-power are sucked into this process , it will begin to destroy the very basis of production itself . |
| 16 | Delia Marr graphically demonstrates her sincere affection for dogs of all kinds through paintings which seem to express the very soul of her subjects |
| 17 | I was going to raise the very question you raised . |
| 18 | Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity . |
| 19 | In a show of unity rarer than a dodo sighting , the US Big Six have issued a joint statement of position in an attempt to focus attention on the ‘ epidemic of litigation ’ that is beginning to threaten the very existence of many American firms . |
| 20 | Arenberg , quoted in US trade magazine Variety , further claims that the US police are set to enforce the very letter of the law . |
| 21 | To do so they would have to buck the very system on which they now depend . |
| 22 | Attempts to develop a peinture feminine , on the lines of the écriture feminine proposed by Hélène Cixous ( whose rhapsodic feminism has had much greater impact on the Aglophone world than on her own French audience ) , led to works which sought to represent the very evanescence , immateriality , and ordinariness of women 's existential condition and past works , as in Bobby Baker 's performance art , in which she makes cakes or reproduces her daily kitchen routines , or , Susan Hiller 's cool , barometrically precise account of her own pregnancy , in the graphic work , ‘ Ten Months ’ . |
| 23 | If children are allowed to come between the parents in this priority structure , they are being allowed to break the very model that God intended to teach them . |
| 24 | Indeed , Wills J. appeared to query the very existence of a marital rape exemption . |
| 25 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 26 | He somehow manages to distil the very essence of everything good in the lineage of Bobby Vee , Jefferson Airplane , Bob Marley and The Fall , mangle the results in the scrambled computer of his mind and offer up a new vision so convincing you forgive his rants against organised religion . |
| 27 | His argument is further weakened when he seeks to defend the very institution that does bring us Dynasty , Dallas and Blankety Blank ! |
| 28 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |
| 29 | Another would be to say he attempted to theorize the very position that Sartre had fought to get out of . |