Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you for tackling the very painful subject of pet loss in your December issue . |
| 2 | Moreover , it was these official publications which were responsible for employing the very few Africans who gained journalistic and editorial experience . |
| 3 | I well remember the excitement of seeing the very first breeding pair on Yell back in the 1950s . |
| 4 | I accept that many museums are concerned with acquiring such context works , but the national gallery is in the business , quite rightly , of acquiring the very finest works . |
| 5 | It is significant that Japanese firms are not adverse to joining forces with American rivals of IBM ; for instance , Mitsubishi and Sperry Univac recently decided to cooperate in some technical areas as a way of combating the very large computer makers . |
| 6 | There are many other ways of analysing the very complex vowel system of English , some of which are extremely ingenious . |
| 7 | But these cases do highlight the cost to individuals and society of ignoring the very real after- effects of crime , shock and trauma . |
| 8 | There is no doubt also that there is a peculiar element of ‘ one-upmanship ’ among many gardeners in being able to boast of having the very latest rose in their gardens . |
| 9 | A double-skin metal sheeting roof system was specified , including an aluminium deck sheet by Architectural Profiles spanning 4.2 m between steelwork , and a Butler MR24 standing seam outer sheet capable of accommodating the very low apex pitch . |
| 10 | The trains will be hauled by the GWR locomotive No. 6998 ‘ Burton Agnes Hall ’ which had the distinction of working the very last British Railways passenger train from Oxford on 1 January 1966 . |
| 11 | FlyPast had the honour of visiting the very busy 35 Squadron at D F Malan Airport ( Cape Town 's main airport ) and to fly with the general transport element on a formation training sortie that took in the Cape Town coast and the all-dominating vista of Table Mountain . |
| 12 | The riots had begun when a crowd of around 60,000 , mostly of the " better sort of tradespeople " , were brought together by the Pro-testant Association on St George 's Fields to pressure parliament into rescinding the very limited measures of Catholic relief which had been enacted in 1788 . |
| 13 | On the other side , extreme animal liberationists for their part were occupied with extending the very demanding current conception of individual human rights to cover individual animals . |
| 14 | They were devised in conjunction ( the exact degree of which remains unknown ) with Christian Huygens of Zulichem , who is credited with making the very first pendulum clock in 1656 . |
| 15 | A classic dish that benefits from using the very best prunes ( pruneaux d'Agen , see p61 ) and bacon . |
| 16 | There , as we shall see , the judges wriggled furiously to avoid applying the principles outlined above in order to restrain the press from revealing the very serious iniquities disclosed by Mr Peter Wright , which included not only the bugging of embassies but also a conspiracy to assassinate the Egyptian President . |
| 17 | They would obviously have some idea from the appeal hearing it itself but since they have to put all of their reasons for their request in writing the very least I believe they should be able to have is a reasoned reply . |
| 18 | The resolution of the question thus depends on the extent to which the actual mix of physical controls , slowly improving financial disciplines and quantitative annual investment limitations were effective in limiting the very real possibility of over-expansion by the industry . |
| 19 | It is essential that in exercising the very important jurisdiction to grant judicial review , the court should not intervene just because the reasons given , if strictly construed , may disclose an error of law . |
| 20 | As Stephen Parrish points out in discussing the very earliest ‘ complete ’ draft ( Ms JJ ) , the embryonic Prelude is best understood as an extension of the structure of Tintern Abbey : ‘ The last poem Wordsworth wrote before leaving England was Tintern Abbey , completed in mid July , and the affinities between Tintern Abbey and the autobiographical verse he began to write in Germany three months later help to point up The Prelude 's earliest design ’ ( Introduction to the Cornell edition ) . |
| 21 | Though Came , with its moderate , manor house proportions , may seem on the small side to be set so grandly in a park , Sir John Damer certainly did n't skimp on employing the very best craftsmen in all London . |
| 22 | Yet , without minimising the very real material and political benefits gained by ordinary working-class people in the 1940s , one must recognise the qualitatively ambiguous nature of these welfare innovations : a National Health Service which greatly benefited working-class women and children but also consolidated the power of an elite of consultants ; secondary education for all , but qualitatively differentiated , with selection by and large on grounds of social class , and the independent sector left intact ; a comprehensive social security system , but with benefit rates no higher in relation to average earnings than they had been in the 1930s . |
| 23 | At his trial in 1945 , he himself insisted on wearing the very simplest uniform of a Marshal of France , his only decoration the Médaille Militaire . |
| 24 | Beyond the open door between the two rooms there was silence ; each girl concentrating fiercely on making the very best of what looks she had . |
| 25 | Full marks to those behind Medicine Man for highlighting the very real threat to the rainforest . |
| 26 | Easily Accessible : White Doves is ideally situated for exploring the very best of the 1,900-year-old city of York , with its Minster ( the largest Gothic church in England ) , the Yorvik Viking Centre , and the famous ‘ shambles ’ , an area of winding medieval streets . |
| 27 | Biogas plants are already a familiar sight in China and India , although they have had some unforeseen side effects , such as depriving the very poorest people of a source of cow dung . |
| 28 | For example , Justice Foster said , ‘ Had the author [ of the advertisement ] wished to indicate that nothing more than an opinion was being expressed , he could have achieved this object quite simply by introducing the very same words ‘ we think ’ before the ‘ there is little evidence ’ . ’ |