Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb -s] the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane 's Addiction have a third album , ‘ Ritual Do Lo Habitual ’ , which challenges the very ethos of rock music . |
| 2 | X causes Y which in turn causes Z ’ ; while a mediating variable ‘ is one which shapes the very relationship between the two other variables : Y causes the way in which X affects Z ’ ( 1979 : 23 ) . |
| 3 | The danger is that in responding without thought to this ephemeral demand the essential ingredient which creates the very tourist experience — the landscape , both natural and man-made — will be permanently disfigured . |
| 4 | Perhaps a future generation will come to recognize that the most misguided , though well intentioned , feature of our present age was that , having discovered by the methods of genuine science that man is a single zoological species and thus a unity in his physical nature , we tried , by political coercion and propaganda , to impose on man , as cultural moral being , a comparable sense of unity which contradicts the very essence of our human nature . |
| 5 | Therefore , it hardly seems sensible to adopt , whilst attempting to elaborate theoretical issues , a removed philosophical stance , which ignores the very issues that theory should be addressing . |
| 6 | Most of all to listen to that deep reflective voice reciting the blessings , in Hebrew ; a service which touches the very soul of the traditions , as well as the souls of those who are privileged to share them with him . |
| 7 | They do not for the most part take a position like that of Boas and Evans-Pritchard which rejects the very notion that there are general laws governing human history ; and if they do not , it would seem that they too are driving , however cautiously , towards an understanding of human history in general , in other words toward a theory of human evolution . |
| 8 | Central to this ‘ new consensus , was a concern with the complex and multi-layered nature of organizations which makes the very possibility of rational decision-making problematic . |