Example sentences of "[prep] [art] very [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The architect , Bogdan Bogdanovic , whose entire career has been devoted to the tragic commemoration of war victims , is one of the very few Serbians brave enough to speak out against the current Serbian aggression . |
| 32 | The only thing you have to be careful of is that the hardcard is thin enough not to obscure too many of the very few slots that the 2000 series has . |
| 33 | Of the very few banners that mentioned it , one from Moscow University called pointedly for ‘ a faster rate of democratisation of the party ’ . |
| 34 | The car was parked neatly between two patches of off-street parking , in one of the very few parts of the street that was neither metered nor dedicated to residents ' parking . |
| 35 | He was one of the very few men of science who gave a welcome , albeit qualified , to Vestiges ( 1844 ) presumably because he could see the wood for the trees ; but when the Origin of Species came out in 1859 he disliked it heartily , and became one of the most formidable opponents of Darwin and Huxley . |
| 36 | As Frances Power Cobbe observed , the doctor assumed a position of great importance in the middle class household and was indeed one of the very few men of her own class that the married middle class woman dealt with directly ; while to doctors , middle class female patients represented a lucrative source of income . |
| 37 | The sub-contract was for the sale , not merely of similar goods , but of the very same goods as were to lie supplied under the first contract . |
| 38 | Given the link the Government has forged between the collection of data for the local tax and the registration of the very same individuals for the vote , the cost of non-payment will be the loss of the remaining political clout the underclass has with which to fight its way back into mainstream Britain . |
| 39 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |
| 40 | A very warm day here at Lord 's , breeze just starting to get up a little , in fact the sun has just disappeared behind one of a very few clouds . |
| 41 | The broad conclusion must be that the majority of owners of small parcels lived within a radius of a very few miles . |
| 42 | From 936/1530 to well beyond the limits of the present study the office was held continuously by Ottoman scholars , a survey of whose careers suggests that if the office was not a mevleviyet from 936/1530 it was so from a matter of a very few years thereafter . |
| 43 | For most students , the decision to follow an arts path or a sciences path is made at the age of 16 , when choosing A levels ; for some students , it is made earlier , at 14 , or , for a very few students , those who have kept their options open , later , after A level . |
| 44 | On the contrary , it will become clear that scientific investigations are thoroughly imbued with the very same assumptions we find in folklinguistic speculation . |
| 45 | But if I , with the very same eyes and brain , am walking through a forest at dusk , I may well fail to distinguish almost any dull-coloured insect from the twigs that abound everywhere . |
| 46 | Some years ago professor Geach made an arrangement of this material , which the editors , professor G. H. von Wright and Miss G. E. M. Anscombe have retained with a very few alterations . |
| 47 | This is now the form he prefers — ‘ you can say a lot in a poem with a very few words ’ — and he writes ‘ whenever I feel in the mood ’ . |
| 48 | Under the progressive system of construction it was , however , impossible to do this , and with a very few exceptions a shortage of any one part held up the whole of the line . |
| 49 | The work of these men , with a very few exceptions such as Turner and Girtin , was not intrinsically important and could be divided into topographical and idealistic landscape . |
| 50 | Increasingly powerful transmitters , satellite relays , and cable systems have begun to open up the British electorate to a wider variety of broadcast news sources , while business mergers have effectively consolidated control of the press into a very few hands ( Newton , 1988a , p. 314 ; Negrine , 1989 , ch. 4 ) . |
| 51 | From the very few interviews we conducted we were given to understand that the birth parents would not have opposed adoption if the links could be maintained ( Lambert et al . , |
| 52 | ‘ I 'm so glad , ’ Leith replied , knowing from the very few comments Rosemary had let drop that she must have gone through a most unhappy time before Derek had finally left . |
| 53 | The outrage in India stemmed from the very same reasons . |
| 54 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we have put in place arrangements under which , in the very few markets that the private sector does not accept , reinsurance can be provided through ECGD . |
| 55 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 56 | The film-makers are , of course , lucky enough to be able to shoot the film in the very same workshops where Bob earned his living . |
| 57 | His mischievous words , however , were to prove within a very few minutes appallingly prescient . |
| 58 | To her surprise , within a very few minutes of passing the broken signpost , she came upon her ‘ pony tree ’ . |
| 59 | Within a very few weeks of his father 's death , Lewis found himself obliged once more to take up the routines of an Oxford term : weekly tutorials , college meetings and lectures . |
| 60 | In Mr Coleman 's early career , and even until within a very few years , the veterinary art , so far as regards its application to cattle , sheep , swine , dogs , etc. , was in the lowest state of barbarism and degradation . |