Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But maybe your Ministerial colleague is n't going right for the very top , McLeish thought with unreasonable conviction , and you were going to stop her working at Yeo Davis when you could . |
| 2 | The international challenge did not meet Martin Lester 's target in full , largely due to the fact that , wherever international representatives attend the major rallies , they do so for the very purpose of demonstrating their national speciality and no other . |
| 3 | Only towards the very end of the seventeenth century , as the new explanations of mechanistic science began to gain ground , did religion and magic begin significantly to diverge from each other . |
| 4 | They were now expected to settle down with the very people with whom they had been fighting and who had been responsible for killing some of their comrades-in-arms . |
| 5 | And what a snore he had … strong , long , thick and hard , it was a snore that went on all night long , a snore that never let up , baby ! … a snore that reached the highest heights and the deepest depths , a snore that took you up among the stars and down into the very inside of yourself . |
| 6 | There are mounting implications for water supplies , food production , roads , buildings and engineering work , together with the very face of the countryside . |
| 7 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
| 8 | In Chambers Street in 1810 , for example , Mr. Isaac was nicely settled in alongside the very English-sounding Chas . |
| 9 | So from the very outset , before O'Neillism was widely recognized as a new force in Ulster politics , Beattie was committed to the politicized evangelicalism which Paisley promoted . |
| 10 | These processes turn out to be as widely varying as the tasks upon which they are to be used , and we are therefore only in the very beginning stages of understanding how they combine to predict emerging skills . |
| 11 | Not just a religious movement , but something that involves and enmeshes every area of life , from high national , and international politics , right the way down to the very colour of the , of the latest fashions , the new age movement and sometime in the future we 're gon na lo , talk a little bit about that . |
| 12 | Because the heart is the seat of all our emotions , affections and willpower , this means that the impact of being blessed by God eventually reaches down to the very core of our persons . |
| 13 | By chance ( chance again ! ) she had chosen the one thing that would reach , spinning down through all that froth of excited sentiment , right down to the very core of Sarah 's being : the memory of Tom . |
| 14 | The sensation seemed to spread right down to the very pit of her stomach . |
| 15 | The forearms are Saddam 's , reproduced exactly from life on a scale of 40:1 , down to the very follicles . |
| 16 | Trees and bushes grew right down to the very edge of it . |
| 17 | ‘ To my grief and surprise I found her mind bowed down to the very depths of painful disquietude , unable to realise the presence of her Saviour , and harassed with the fiery darts of the great Enemy … |
| 18 | Interrogations of German prisoners-of-war captured in 1944 and 1945 on the western Front also revealed surprisingly high rates of continued trust in the Führer , almost down to the very end of the war . |
| 19 | He strung the Poles along to the very end in order to keep their enthusiasm for his cause and their manpower for his army . |
| 20 | Sir Joseph Banks , the greatest naturalist of the age , founder of Kew Gardens and botanist-companion to Captain Cook , first developed his boyhood passion for natural history in East , West , and Wildmoor fens , which washed up to the foot of the Lincolnshire wolds , and so to the very gates of Revesby Abbey , the Banks 's family home . |
| 21 | The program designer needs to be in communication with the curriculum designer , especially at the very beginning of the development . |
| 22 | Instead of presenting a strong , clear answer to this misconception , many Christians show that their defences are down at the very place where modern unbelief is most devastating . |
| 23 | János Hunyadi was regent of Hungary during the minority of King Ladislas V , but had to step down at the very moment of the fall of Constantinople when Ladislas came of age . |
| 24 | Perhaps once in a film , for a special moment , I might show the whole orchestra , or perhaps at the very end , with the lights down . |
| 25 | Can you co up again if you can co I 'm going back to The reason being that the approach to the business was one of quality and a large amount of hand-finishing , and , the leathers were aimed mainly at the , saddlery and leather goods trade and also only at the very top end of the shoe trade . |
| 26 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |
| 27 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |
| 28 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |
| 29 | Greek by nationality , he was born and spent most of his life in Russia , returning to the land of his ancestors only at the very end of his days , where he shortly thereafter died . |
| 30 | In fact , it was largely through the middle-class and scientific bias of the new provincial colleges that English Language , Literature , and History came to serve as a so-called " poor man 's classics " , and it was only at the very end of the century that Oxbridge became sufficiently concerned to begin to succumb to the then " national demand " for such studies and introduce new " Schools " and " Tripos " regulations that would allow the ancient institutions to take a lead in these new areas . |