Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , in France this has been widely recognized in the very successful ‘ Gites ’ scheme . |
| 2 | So out of the 16,000 Pathfinders I personally recruited from the very first day of my appointment to the Pathfinder Force , to the last day of the war , I am not aware of one occasion on which a member of aircrew , whatever his category , was dealt with under the terms of the AMO . |
| 3 | Palaeontological studies only relate to the very small areas of sedimentary cover over certain parts of the crystalline basement in this region . |
| 4 | Phosphorus that diffuses upward from the bottom is absorbed by the accumulated bacteria and algal cells at the top of the anoxic layer ; very little penetrates to the less saline layers above , which are thus limited to the very small amounts brought in by Onyx River . |
| 5 | The tax was not to fall upon the very poor : only those with incomes of £2 per annum or goods of £3. 6s. 8d. were to be approached . |
| 6 | The whole exercise , indeed , was largely dictated by the very proper wish to see standards of education rise . |
| 7 | In 1909 , Winston Churchill , talking about workers ' rights , said that there were necessary laws to be passed to ensure that the bad employer was not undercut by the very worst . |
| 8 | ‘ The assets of Bell Resources are in serious jeopardy if a receiver is not appointed in the very near future , ’ said Adelaide Steamship 's lawyer , George Palmer . |
| 9 | KGB General Vladimir Podelyakin called on the Bashkirian parliament to declare an environmental disaster zone over large parts of the republic , warning that " KGB experts predict that life in Bashkiria will be doomed if urgent measures are not taken in the very near future " . |
| 10 | As regards its notoriety as a ‘ land of damnation and chains ’ , a domain of perpetual punishment and pain — this , too , is grimly rooted in the very real sufferings of generations of convicts , rebels , revolutionaries , common criminals and multitudes of often innocent men , women and children , who for nearly four centuries have dragged themselves along the ‘ road of chains ’ ( kandalnaya doroga ) leading beyond the Urals . |
| 11 | It is a trait she rarely sees in the very young . |
| 12 | and after a time you know you say ha and you just because the lawyer for the other side always goes for the very worst scenario |
| 13 | The identification of the so-called Jurassic Way was always based on the very flimsy evidence that it linked some six or seven Iron Age sites . |
| 14 | The public events of his time leave little mark ; and , apart from occasional visits to London and Oxford and an account of a holiday in Cornwall , which is one of the diary 's tours de force , his record hardly strays outside the very narrow circumferences of rural Radnorshire and rural Wiltshire . |
| 15 | But John-William — who always knew to the very minute — was engaged in the happy task of bringing his daughter to church to be married . |
| 16 | The regime perhaps had little choice but to win support by making grants of land which might otherwise have gone to augment royal resources , and Mortimer and Isabella rapidly ran through the very substantial treasure inherited from Edward II . |
| 17 | Laura had always aspired to the very best within a certain budget ; her budget had now expanded . |
| 18 | And so finely tuned is its sense of hearing and its appreciation of timing that it will go on feeding until the very last minute , only springing to safety after the rattler has launched its otherwise deadly final strike . |
| 19 | Regionalism also overlapped with the very important question of newspaper finance . |
| 20 | We have , we are also paying for the very very high price for that er and so it at where we look at , the money we are proposing to spend er in the future that we are grouped in that direction and that 's the , that 's the er budget today . |
| 21 | This concern probably contributed to the very large number ( 69% ) that agreed with the view that companies will have to devote more effort to providing improved information about the value to the business of R&D expenditure . |
| 22 | What most Directors of Social Services are worried about is that the group of children that we 're now finding in children 's homes , are so disturbed , because of their past family backgrounds er and so , so problematic er with their behaviour , er that they 're now concerned to make sure that the children 's homes of the future are properly geared up to deal with the very difficult group of children . |
| 23 | The absence of competition for the females is also associated with the very close genetic relationship of the males and their potential for harming one another should they fight . |
| 24 | On the contrary , it will become clear that scientific investigations are thoroughly imbued with the very same assumptions we find in folklinguistic speculation . |
| 25 | What really happens during the very early or late stages of the universe , when gravitational fields are so strong that quantum effects can not be ignored ? |
| 26 | It is this second concept which has caused all the trouble , certainly ( for example ) in view of what we now know about the very different world of early Precambrian times . |
| 27 | ‘ Come , madam , you are now driven to the very last scene of all your contrivances . ’ |
| 28 | Yet once the processes were under way and the machinery was set up there did come the realisation that national goals must be set , often coupled with the very welcome awareness that this process is far too important a one to be left solely in the hands of the curriculum developers themselves . |
| 29 | Indeed , it is difficult to justify many of the cases where tapping is strongly suspected on the ground that it was necessary for the detection of really serious crime or to deal with major subversion , even allowing for the very wide definition of subversion announced by Lord Harris of Greenwich in 1975 when he said that |
| 30 | The answer surely lies in the very curious political situation of early modern Scotland . |