Example sentences of "[prep] [art] very [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But just as in the case of advice , and for the very same reasons , such grounds for recognizing the authority of another , even though sometimes good , are always deviant grounds . |
| 2 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 3 | What excited many of those who were following leys was the realization that the legends were about the very same sites which Watkins had found to be ley markers . |
| 4 | Which was just as well , as this time he came back after a very few minutes . |
| 5 | We made another such excursion on to Mount Párnes , at its best season — it was still possible ( indeed it is still possible today , though more difficult ) to leave Athens and the world behind after a very few kilometres . |
| 6 | After morning service , we would walk back to our bus stop through the Chater Gardens and enjoy the sight of hundreds of Chinese families relaxing together , eating picnics , taking photographs with fountains in the background , or watching goldfish in the pond ; and the happiness of the very many Filipinos making the most of a day of leisure . |
| 7 | As it so happens , Strand-on-the-Green was one of the very many places that felt the effects of the German bombing — in November 1940 , a German landmine landed in the area , destroying cottages on the north side of Thames Road . |
| 8 | Note that each list gives just a few of the very many uses of the techniques concerned in mathematics learning . |
| 9 | The following notes , questions and observations on courses which have a programmed development and which include written materials and tapes are just a few which may help one to assess the relative merits of the very many courses that are available to the EFL teacher . |
| 10 | Richter is one of the very few artists making recordings of standard repertoire who are so awe-inspiring in their comprehensiveness that the long list of comparative versions becomes a virtual irrelevance . |
| 11 | Although it appears that sentencing became more severe during the first three years the guide-lines were in use , Minnesota remains one of the very few states that has avoided huge increases in prison population size ( Parent 1988 ) . |
| 12 | He must have been a natural for the job , being one of the very few Greeks with an appropriate qualification . |
| 13 | Tanzania is one of the very few countries in Africa that broadcasts in only one African language plus that of the former colonial power . |
| 14 | Now we 're one of the very few companies that will pay weekly commissions on a commission only basis . |
| 15 | In 1668 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society , becoming thereby one of the very few businessmen in that body . |
| 16 | When the old Roman city was revived and became London again , from the late ninth century on , one of its prime functions in the eyes of King Alfred and his successors was as a bulwark against the Danes ; his boroughs had a major defensive role to play , and London was the greatest of them — one of the very few cities of this age which came wholly to fill a Roman enceinte . |
| 17 | Though wounded seventeen times , he was one of the very few aces to survive the war . |
| 18 | Salt was one of the very few necessaries of life that could not be produced anywhere and had to be transported from the centres of production on the sea coasts , on tidal rivers , and from certain inland centres . |
| 19 | The Dornoch Firth is one of the very few areas around the British Isles given a Grade A classification for shellfish purity . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most famous incumbent of Stanton Lacy is poor Robert Foulkes , who was one of the very few clergymen ever to have been executed for murder . |
| 21 | It is one of the very few creatures in the world that can kill by electrocution . |
| 22 | Of the very few things that were her own , her chastity mattered most . |
| 23 | Prostatitis is one of the very few conditions for which doctors may sometimes recommend more sex . |
| 24 | It is one of the very few institutions where the shared goals overcome nationalist or racial considerations . |
| 25 | The start of this session was one of the very few occasions when we specifically told the pupils how to conduct part of an activity . |
| 26 | This , as one of the very few occasions , when , during a meeting , the girls did not sit traditionally silent or whisper amongst themselves . |
| 27 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 28 | The Geological Survey was one of the very few organizations employing men of science in Britain — Greenwich Observatory was one of the others — but their status was about that of clerks in the Civil Service , and this rankled . |
| 29 | This quotation is one of the very few places in his work where he actually mentions soil erosion . |
| 30 | NME remains one of the very few places the featherbed treatment is n't guaranteed . |