Example sentences of "[prep] the very [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lofoten apart , though , Keyes 's private armies were to chafe at the bit of ministry reins throughout the summer of 1941 , while remaining dependent on these masters for the very shoe-string of their existence as Commandos . |
| 2 | The international challenge did not meet Martin Lester 's target in full , largely due to the fact that , wherever international representatives attend the major rallies , they do so for the very purpose of demonstrating their national speciality and no other . |
| 3 | In all cases , do not alter the position of any fittings on the cross-spars — they should be a very tight fit for the very purpose of staying where set ! |
| 4 | War between East and West would not only be a contest between states and power blocs , but ways of life ( ‘ classes ’ ) : more likely to be ‘ a struggle for the very existence of the two opposing world-wide systems ’ than a limited engagement . |
| 5 | Predation by man on the bigger fish should , in theory , leave more small fish for the birds , but sadly , ‘ industrial ’ fishing for even the smallest and immature fish is a fact of life which has serious implications for the very existence of our sea-bird communities should it be allowed to go on unchecked . |
| 6 | There may be a great temptation to try and do this as part of a justification for the very existence of the media relations programme . |
| 7 | Indeed , as has already been highlighted in the previous discussion of cultural politics , the opposition between progressive and reactionary forces became so marked with the rise of fascism that it was less a question of reactionary versus progressive culture , than a struggle for the very existence of culture itself . |
| 8 | More significantly , as is already clear from our discussion so far , functional psychosis also contains within itself a potential for the very opposite of deficit , the occasional capacity for superlative functioning and high achievement ; this is the paradox of which we wrote in the previous chapter . |
| 9 | For two years Vlasov was limited to the depressing task of fighting for the very survival of his movement . |
| 10 | That argument showed that knowledge of the external world can not be reduced to behavioural dispositions , for the very idea of a disposition functions only in the context of an unreduced grasp on the physical world . |
| 11 | 1987 's Locust Abortion Technician saw them dredging for the very dregs of sound . |
| 12 | Here you might hope to find evidence for the very beginnings of life . |
| 13 | It is the latter who has the transformational capabilities for the very creation of animal meat . |
| 14 | The man of unity possesses no rivals for the very meaning of unity is to be at one with all men and all things . |
| 15 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 16 | Protest which Soviet historians disparage as ‘ spontaneous ’ and unreflecting , and which liberal historians see as mindless and destructive , libertarians regard as the very stuff of history . |
| 17 | The New Right in choosing to focus on , and criticise , pressure groups , parties , and elected governments as the very stuff of British politics , chooses to ignore other phenomena that are of political significance , such as the power of the secret state that we will be considering in Chapter S. Moreover , although it is a perspective which is critical of things , criticism is restricted to politics , and to democratic politics at that , and there is no attempt to direct critical attention to the functioning of the economic system and to the power which lurks hidden within it . |
| 18 | It is possible to catalogue a chorus of social self-congratulation , as respectable commentators recount the positive achievement of tranquillity since the days of their youth , as the very epitome of social progress . |
| 19 | Freedom of the press has a long history , but it is only since 1980 that the right to communicate and the freedom that it entails has been seen as the very centre of human rights , and indeed as a precondition for a meaningful implementation of other human rights . |
| 20 | Thanks to Macaulay , he lives in history as the very type of a Whig oligarch . |
| 21 | It is cited as the very type of contemporary fortification , the last fling of the traditional style before the onset of serious and effective artillery changed the rules of defensive building ; and it makes today a magnificent as well as an instructive ruin . |
| 22 | The most unfortunate aspect of this use of the term ‘ competition ’ is of course that , by referring to the situation in which no room remains for further steps in the competitive market process , the word has come to be understood as the very opposite of the kind of activity of which that process consists . |
| 23 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 24 | These intermedii with their mixture of styles and resources , differing from earlier sixteenth-century dramatic or festive ones only in their lavishness , were not yet opera but they were the most important harbinger of opera , which just because of that mixture was gradually to supplant church music as the very heart of European music and hence establish Italian pre-eminence throughout the continent . |
| 25 | This ‘ sane insanity ’ through which one enters into someone 's personality — intentionally splitting oneself into both searching , inventing subject and the object of the search — is posed as the very condition of narration . |
| 26 | In towns and cities across Scotland , people have lately grown increasingly conscious of the homeless : often young , often pitiful , often begging for money in a style once thought of as the very antithesis of the British way . |
| 27 | As the very essence of nature it is eternal and underlies all forms — all qualities — all activity and all things return into it . |
| 28 | The co-operation of these voices might be seen as the very essence of critical commentary : to interpret the text while refering to it with varying levels of precision . |
| 29 | Ever since , it has remained a popular favourite — surely the most popular of all major orchestral work by a native Englishman , and widely regarded as the very essence of the spirit of England . |
| 30 | is the history of the departures from totality , history as the very movement of transcendence , of the excess over the totality without which no totality would appear as such . |