Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] [prep] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much the biggest is the Electricity Corporation ( NZ$3.3bn ) , followed by the Earthquake and War Damage Commission ( NZ$1.5bn ) , right down to the very capable NZ Symphony Orchestra ( NZ$0.002bn — about £600,000 ) . |
| 2 | The theories in question arose originally out of a joining together of empirical research and clinical observation , some of which go right back to the very earliest descriptions of schizophrenia and it is therefore instructive to consider , first , what Bleuler himself believed to be the essential features of the ‘ disease ’ that he had named . |
| 3 | This technique has been around as a possibility for these machines for years , dating right back to the very early 1970s and the S42 , or ‘ peg-board ’ machines . |
| 4 | Certainly I felt , for the first time , that sense of anticipation , of excitement almost , at the prospect ahead of me — a journey down the whole coast of South America , and then on to the very southernmost rim of the world . |
| 5 | He flirts occasionally with the rhinoceros and the camel as self-images , but mainly , secretly , essentially , he is the Bear : a stubborn bear ( 1852 ) , a bear thrust deeper into bearishness by the stupidity of his age ( 1853 ) , a mangy bear ( 1854 ) , even a stuffed bear ( 1869 ) ; and so on down to the very last year of his life , when he is still ‘ roaring as loudly as any bear in its cave ’ ( 1880 ) Note that in Hérodias , Flaubert 's last completed work , the imprisoned prophet Iaokanann , when ordered to stop howling his denunciations against a corrupt world , replies that he too will continue crying out ‘ like a bear ’ . |