Example sentences of "that the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , they were tending to the view that the very change in law brings about a change in the nature of society and human relationships within it . |
| 2 | They declared , rightly , that the very power of the clergy in education was being attacked , and , probably wrongly , that the reform of the faults of the present system was only the apparent reason . |
| 3 | In reaction to this , one can say that the very way in which the church leaders view the subject is itself revealing of significant mediations between religion , state , and national ideology in the institutions of schooling . |
| 4 | To be fair to him , he had repeatedly hinted that , when the evidence was in , it would show that Pound 's contribution went far beyond the mere passing of judgement on particular passages ; and indeed it turned out that the very structure of the poem had been extricated by Pound , rather than conceived and composed by the poet whose name appeared on the title-page . |
| 5 | There is no intimation that the very existence of the MU benefits all musicians , especially the young and inexperienced . |
| 6 | She contends that ‘ the exchanges upon which patriarchal societies are based take place exclusively among men ’ and that ‘ this means that the very possibility of a sociocultural order requires homosexuality as its organizing principle … all economic organization is homosexual ’ . |
| 7 | They tried to show that the very notion of private property , far from being an ‘ inalienable right ’ as it was stated to be in the American constitution , was , in fact , itself a product of certain unique economic , technical , and social conditions , and it was therefore reasonable to expect that this notion , like others , would be superseded when the associated relations of production changed . |
| 8 | Sadness far the way he had felt about the old man blended with a sense that his childhood was irrecoverably lost , and the knowledge that the very past when it was in flight Lived , like the present , in continual death . |
| 9 | It is , rather , that the very idea of a body of knowledge about the world , of the sort we have now , the very idea of a natural science , was being forged at the time . |
| 10 | The government was well aware that the very survival of the church had been in no small degree due to the coherence and discipline imparted by the episcopate . |
| 11 | Kossuth 's tragedy was that the very fervour of his nationalism made him so intolerant of other ethnic groups within Hungary , that he damaged the cause he sought to promote . |
| 12 | The situation is now so critical that the very structure that is needed to use the aid effectively has disintegrated . |
| 13 | It is true that the very process of mobilising labour by elites for their own support has brought workers together for political action and this could form the basis for the development of an independent labour movement , but this has , so far , been prevented by the mechanisms of control ( Spalding 1977 ) . |
| 14 | If he did n't get this across to her properly and she chose to be obstructive she could make so many complications that the very project could be damaged . |
| 15 | This consideration points to the fact that the very restrictions imposed on societies by the Rawlsian principles of justice make the implementation of some conceptions of the good more difficult and their pursuit by individuals less attractive than that of others . |
| 16 | We showed that the very idea of an ‘ own ’ body was a loaded assumption . |
| 17 | It was n't that the new treatment was particularly bad , it was just that the very idea of a re-mix fell directly against the grain of the code of ethics publicly laid down by The Smiths . |
| 18 | There is the fact that the very rocks on which we live — no matter where — may have originated through volcanism ; that much of the gold and many of the other economic minerals that we use every day are linked with volcanic activity ; that most of the world 's best coffee and tea come from volcanic areas , and that there may be areas on the Moon and Mars which are analogous to terrestrial continents and oceans . |
| 19 | Such a ‘ sizeable number of poems that Dickinson left in semi-final or working draft after 1860 suggests that the very act of finishing a poem … became repugnant to her ’ says Bennett . |
| 20 | He was saying that the very fact of being alive inevitably leads us to experience doubts , fears , anxiety . |
| 21 | I remember that the very day that the surgeon told me that he thought the cancer was incurable , I saw the swifts returning to their annual nesting-place . |
| 22 | He will undoubtedly find that the very term ‘ baptism ’ is a difficult one to use all the time , since it really refers to the rite of immersing in or sprinkling with water as a sign of purification and , with Christian churches , admission to the Church . |
| 23 | Imagine that the very first reply results in a score of 5 . |
| 24 | A second criterion frequently suggested is that the very regularity and invariability of such robot-like behaviour may be a guide to what behaviour is performed automatically and without the need for thinking . |
| 25 | One of the most interesting recent developments had been the discovery that the very first muscle cells to differentiate also erect a kind of scaffold of pathways along which the later ‘ motor ’ nerves migrate in order to locate their muscle targets ( Nature , Vol 301 p 66 ) . |
| 26 | It may seem ironic to onlookers that the very parents who have been complaining loud and long about the difficulty of sharing their home with impossible teenage children , should be lamenting the fact that they 've left , only a few months later . |
| 27 | I believe that the very speed at which they have been absorbed into the school system indicates an uncritical acceptance of the package because it is new and modern and fashionable and that there has been little serious examination of which aspects are relevant and which are not . |
| 28 | It is that failure of all religions from the very beginning , to satisfy the needs of mankind and command universal acceptance , which must inevitably reinforce the evidence that the very foundations of those religions and their associated ‘ gods ’ are based on false assumptions . |
| 29 | However , our experience was that the very week that our new church planting team began to meet , with such rosy hopes , a violent row between two families occurred which resulted in one couple leaving the team and the church . |
| 30 | Since no man is an island it is impossible for him not to ‘ participate in the Hi sā that the very existence of society involves . ’ |