Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | But after the second programme Yorkshire Television installed block heaters throughout the house in lieu of a fee , so Low Birk Hatt was heated properly for the very first time . |
| 2 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 3 | As shown even by the very simple models here , narrowly-defined self-interest can be self-defeating once there is more than one ‘ player ’ . |
| 4 | This was borne out by the very subjective observation that no used fertiliser bags were noted anywhere in the Auvergne uplands whereas such discarded litter is commonplace in the Welsh uplands ( unless French farmers are innately tidier ! ) . |
| 5 | Clearly , one of the invincible conventions of the ‘ Romance ’ label is that desire should not be consummated before at the very least a proposal of marriage has been secured by the heroine — ‘ the only pain permitted is the sweet pain of unfulfilled desire ’ … |
| 6 | The basis of this understanding of marriage is laid down in the very first book of the Bible : ‘ That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united with his wife , and they become one . ’ |
| 7 | The National ( or Conservative ) majority of 425 seats in October 1931 was reduced only to the very substantial one of 247 in November 1935 . |
| 8 | This policy has not , however , become universal , and the sale of council houses in particular has been conducted in a way that is creating ghetto areas of very poor public housing , populated largely by the very old , the unemployed and single mothers on welfare . |
| 9 | The detail of the proposals on contributions was , of course , fully set out in the very full statement that I made to the House by way of a written answer at the same time as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's autumn statement on 6 November . |
| 10 | But he adds : ‘ We would expect the French economy to remain relatively weak for at least the next year because its main trading partner , Germany , is itself entering what is likely to be quite a painful economic slowdown , brought about by the very high interest rates . ’ |
| 11 | Dressed in a dark , immaculate evening suit and a crisp white shirt , worn with a bow-tie that had been , by the looks of it , impatiently pulled apart at the very earliest opportunity . |
| 12 | Using everyday objects , basic scientific principles can be explained even to the very young . |
| 13 | But the Grand Emissary had swung up in the very newest model of the Novablast Personaluxury Liner , making me feel like a meteorite next to an asteroid . |
| 14 | However , a B II site at this junction can be ruled out by the very high chemical shift of the associated phosphate . |
| 15 | It does n't seem to have had as bad an effect on a lot of people as it might appear — they have n't immediately turned round and gone back to the very worst anti-gay feeling . |
| 16 | Taken together with the very large percentage of investment in heavy industry held by foreign interests , this presented a formidable obstacle to the emergence of a politically powerful business lobby . |
| 17 | Judicial review is seen as a basic right of all citizens which the legislature will be taken to have excluded only by the very clearest words . |
| 18 | A number of significant problems for the distinction between anaphora and discourse deixis have been thrown up by the very considerable body of work on pronominalization ( see Lyons , 1977b ; Lyons , 1977a : 662ff for a review ; and for recent work , see e.g. Heny & Schnelle , 1979 ) . |
| 19 | It was true , the old ramblers were both ugly and kitted out in the very best of outdoor clothing . |
| 20 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 21 | An appropriate set of product communications needs to be sent out at the very earliest opportunity and more expensive , albeit more responsive media , such as a telephone , should be brought into effect . |