Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the very [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tonight the cellist Vedran Smailovic , who has come to represent the very soul of the besieged city , performs simultaneously with three other cellists in different capitals around the world . |
| 2 | As we pored over his crippled handwriting I felt a steady heat coming from his body like an aura which slowly enveloped me and seemed to penetrate the very marrow of my bones . |
| 3 | When our love was young , we would exchange presents — small tokens , often meaningless in themselves , but which seemed to enclose the very essence of their donor . |
| 4 | Nellie had grown to detest the very mention of Galloway and she turned to her friends in disgust . |
| 5 | Failure to conform to directives of priests and bishops were seen to break the very fabric of communion and to allow sin to enter in . |
| 6 | He pointed out that when armaments production and war reaches a certain point , when larger and larger quantities of material goods and labour-power are sucked into this process , it will begin to destroy the very basis of production itself . |
| 7 | Delia Marr graphically demonstrates her sincere affection for dogs of all kinds through paintings which seem to express the very soul of her subjects |
| 8 | Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity . |
| 9 | In a show of unity rarer than a dodo sighting , the US Big Six have issued a joint statement of position in an attempt to focus attention on the ‘ epidemic of litigation ’ that is beginning to threaten the very existence of many American firms . |
| 10 | Arenberg , quoted in US trade magazine Variety , further claims that the US police are set to enforce the very letter of the law . |
| 11 | Indeed , Wills J. appeared to query the very existence of a marital rape exemption . |
| 12 | He somehow manages to distil the very essence of everything good in the lineage of Bobby Vee , Jefferson Airplane , Bob Marley and The Fall , mangle the results in the scrambled computer of his mind and offer up a new vision so convincing you forgive his rants against organised religion . |
| 13 | Our shooting permits , after what had been eleven months of filming , were due to expire that evening and , though shot at the very end , the sequence on Anak Krakatoa was intended to introduce the very beginning of our whole ten years of adventure films . |