Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] the very [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arenberg , quoted in US trade magazine Variety , further claims that the US police are set to enforce the very letter of the law . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If children are allowed to come between the parents in this priority structure , they are being allowed to break the very model that God intended to teach them . |
| 4 | The Chief Secretary said yesterday that he wanted a serious debate about the economy , yet the ridiculous , but no doubt expensive , campaign that the Government are running is designed to do the very opposite . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I was going to raise the very question you raised . |