Example sentences of "the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very complexion of some of our cities has changed . |
| 2 | The very complexion of some of our cities has changed . |
| 3 | This interaction occurred because of the very fragmentation experienced by the country . |
| 4 | Put another way , the state is seen as divorced from any one class and is not regarded as the cohesive instrument of the economically powerful ( there is no ruling class ) ; the state is not a biased " establishment " serving only itself ; and the very fragmentation of the state provides for multiple access points for all interest groups . |
| 5 | The downtown area was a strange mixture of the very modem and the very old , like so many German towns where post-war reconstruction saved what it could , keeping to the old street patterns . |
| 6 | It is the very temple of discomfort , and the only charity that the builder can extend to us is to show us , plainly as may be , how soonest to escape from it . |
| 7 | The banisters were bees'-waxed ; and the very stair-wires made your eyes wink , they were so glittering . |
| 8 | Not only were women to a large extent excluded , but the very concepts and models themselves embodied a masculine view of the world . |
| 9 | It is sometimes said that if one wishes to reject such values one must do so by rejecting the very concepts incorporated in such words , and can not do this merely by applying their negation . |
| 10 | Nazism is not just a threat to homosexuals , ‘ Lefties ’ and racial minorities , but the very concepts of democracy and freedom and those who believe in them . |
| 11 | It will be a crime if he slides out of the game with a whimper , lashed to death by the very critics he deliberately snubs . |
| 12 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
| 13 | As the storm broke over the High Street and a great fork of raw energy stabbed downwards , it struck the very tip of the copper spire of the Old College . |
| 14 | Dark pigments appear at the tip of the nose , around the edges of the ears , at the very tip of the tail and on the pads of the feet . |
| 15 | Then you have a bit of the petal free to get hold of right at the very tip . |
| 16 | The other end of the bridle has to be tied in a similar way at the rear of the spine , but not at the very tip . |
| 17 | A brightly glowing fire-red line runs from the upper lip , over the top of the eye , along the lateral line to the very tip of the outer edge of the caudal peduncle . |
| 18 | I checked the needles more thoroughly and discovered that the very tip of the latch of a needle was sheered off . |
| 19 | Second , at the very tip of their abdomen they possess a hook-like structure which enables them to hold on to the shell . |
| 20 | That little knife slashed sharply , circumcising the very tip of the digit , and even before the Larramen cells could clot — or perhaps because the blade was treated with some special anti-coagulant — a sprinkling of bright blood fell like rubies from each fingertip to mingle in the chalice . |
| 21 | He and his officer rode at the head of their squadron , and were thus at the very tip of the advancing French army . |
| 22 | The very tip of the finger began to oscillate . |
| 23 | For some icing work , it is possible to make a small disposable bag out of a cone of non-stick paper , snipping off the very tip for a tiny nozzle ( see page 22 for details ) . |
| 24 | Snip the very tip to form a small nozzle . |
| 25 | It profaned the very bonds of speech . |
| 26 | The very inception of agriculture ( section 3.3 ) was based on the manipulation of natural biotic resources , emphasising the close relationship between environment and agriculture in all its forms . |
| 27 | In one national primary curriculum unit ( Swaziland ) a full time evaluator has been included from the very inception of the work . |
| 28 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 29 | For instance , from the very inception of the Copernican programme it was clear that adequate mathematical techniques for manipulating epicyclic motions , improved techniques for astronomical observations and adequate theories governing the use of a variety of instruments were necessary for the elaboration and detailed application of the programme . |
| 30 | " Variety 's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour . " |