Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , I mean the very opposite , he 'd care too much . |
| 2 | Thus , taking the phrase which Bolinger uses as an example , it is certainly not the properties inherent in being a man that are strengthened when one utters a sentence such as : ( 19 ) walking into the bakery , I met the very man The same conclusion is indicated by the fact that it is perfectly satisfactory to use very in conjunction with a word like one ( as Bolinger himself observes ) , and yet this does not express any property which can be intensified , except singularity which is of course intensified by a quite different word ; note the following : ( 20 ) that is the very one ( 21 ) the supermarket did n't have a single one Actually , when very operates within a noun phrase it clearly acts as an intensifier of exactitude , not of quantity , so it is entirely natural that it should focus on the article ; that is , it does indeed qualify a property , but that property is , approximately , the notion " recognizable by my audience " , as expressed in the definite article . |
| 3 | I experienced the very opposite of what the German and French metaphysicians of our century have assured us is the truth : that all that is other is hostile to the individual . |
| 4 | I caught the very end of it , in the last bit where she cries . |
| 5 | And when I appeal in parishes Sunday by Sunday I am aware that I meet the very people who made me a missionary . |
| 6 | Although I hated the very idea of selling things to people who might not want to buy them ( even if it was good for them ) I made quite a few sales , the main commission deriving from the sale of a Group Insurance Scheme to 32 men from the Times-Herald staff . |
| 7 | so this is why I raised the very conversation about it |
| 8 | The topic returns to the forefront of attention in the final chapter , in which I discuss the very possibility of the enterprise I have been engaged in for the previous fourteen . |
| 9 | I suppose the very idea that they have spacecraft and can zoom about all over the Galaxy at warp seven , leads us to assume that they must be . |
| 10 | erm I suppose the very extreme of such self-satisfaction is in the epilogue to Pope 's satires , where he actually tells us ‘ Yes , I am proud . |
| 11 | No I saw the very end bit . |
| 12 | I love the very dark flowered ‘ Black Magic ’ , which did well for me last summer in a tub placed outside in a sunny , sheltered spot . |
| 13 | But to insist that women somehow amputate their love and compassion is to ask them to destroy the very thing which in my view favourably distinguishes us from men . |
| 14 | Jane 's Addiction have a third album , ‘ Ritual Do Lo Habitual ’ , which challenges the very ethos of rock music . |
| 15 | And he argued that , in conditions of such widespread disunity and tribalism as Africa suffered , the press had another responsibility , one which involved the very security of the State : |
| 16 | X causes Y which in turn causes Z ’ ; while a mediating variable ‘ is one which shapes the very relationship between the two other variables : Y causes the way in which X affects Z ’ ( 1979 : 23 ) . |
| 17 | According to the leading proponent of this view , John Herz , the nation state was being undermined by four factors : its susceptibility to economic warfare ; the rise of international communications and the consequent permeability of national frontiers ; the development of air warfare , which could take war directly to a nation 's population ; and nuclear weapons , which threatened the very survival of states and their populations . |
| 18 | The danger is that in responding without thought to this ephemeral demand the essential ingredient which creates the very tourist experience — the landscape , both natural and man-made — will be permanently disfigured . |
| 19 | Milton 's high style allowed Samson to be read in a manner which reassured the very groups it can be argued the poem attacks . |
| 20 | Perhaps a future generation will come to recognize that the most misguided , though well intentioned , feature of our present age was that , having discovered by the methods of genuine science that man is a single zoological species and thus a unity in his physical nature , we tried , by political coercion and propaganda , to impose on man , as cultural moral being , a comparable sense of unity which contradicts the very essence of our human nature . |
| 21 | Therefore , it hardly seems sensible to adopt , whilst attempting to elaborate theoretical issues , a removed philosophical stance , which ignores the very issues that theory should be addressing . |
| 22 | As will be demonstrated with respect to Orientalism itself , Said can not get out of the Hegelian problematic that he articulates , and indeed tends himself to repeat the very processes that he criticizes . |
| 23 | Most of all to listen to that deep reflective voice reciting the blessings , in Hebrew ; a service which touches the very soul of the traditions , as well as the souls of those who are privileged to share them with him . |
| 24 | That is , I shall argue that the power/knowledge assumptions which form the very basis of Bourdieu 's conceptual framework place him much closer to Foucault and the postmodernist end of the theoretical spectrum . |
| 25 | They do not for the most part take a position like that of Boas and Evans-Pritchard which rejects the very notion that there are general laws governing human history ; and if they do not , it would seem that they too are driving , however cautiously , towards an understanding of human history in general , in other words toward a theory of human evolution . |
| 26 | As Nawal El Saadawi points out so clearly in her report from Cairo , it was in fact George Bush 's insistence on the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait which destroyed the very basis for negotiations . |
| 27 | It 's the worst thing that 's ever come from any political Party and all associated problems live on , and all we have at the moment is one statement after the other from the Ministers which blame the very people that it attacks . |
| 28 | Central to this ‘ new consensus , was a concern with the complex and multi-layered nature of organizations which makes the very possibility of rational decision-making problematic . |
| 29 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |
| 30 | ‘ The moment you go from the rigid and valuable discipline of German bank and people to mixing it up with other disciplines , other views , other ‘ let's have a bit of inflation here and there ’ economies , you lose the very thing which leads you to want to join . ’ |