Example sentences of "have [verb] the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POP FREQUENTLY benefits from string sections enhancing a song , but here Balanescu has altered the very nature of Kraftwerk — injecting flesh and blood , evoking warmth , passion and feeling where only industry and technology had previously operated . |
| 2 | By challenging the right of Parliament to agree to the social chapter against the wishes of the Government and proposing that the treaty will be ratified without the decisions of Parliament , it has underlined the very reasons why there is a need for referendums on the crucial constitutional questions that face us . |
| 3 | To anyone who was watching we must have looked the very picture of youthful preoccupation and parental concern . |
| 4 | I have no doubt he would have reached the very top . |
| 5 | But there was something in her gaze , some power of kindness and peace , that would have stilled the very sky itself of stormy winds and rain . |
| 6 | In 1887 its commanding presence must have seemed the very epitome of British rule . |
| 7 | One day , a woman turned up who must have seemed the very embodiment of that nature he was tussling with daily . |
| 8 | ‘ When he discovered you 'd disappeared , he went storming off half cocked and in a filthy rage that would have rocked the very mountains . |
| 9 | To do so they would have to buck the very system on which they now depend . |
| 10 | For they would have to have escaped the very apparatuses which constitute subjects , and thus would not be subjects at all . |
| 11 | Their mother had hated the very thought of anything that could lessen the love between her and Dana , and she had taught her that the bond between them was only imagination on Claudia 's part . |
| 12 | In a country where gestures are important , the official playing of the anthem at Ellis Park was insensitive to many people who had seen the very acceptance of the tours as a major compromise . |
| 13 | And I 've got the very task for her ! ’ |
| 14 | The inability of O'Neill and Chichester-Clark to satisfy those demands without destabilizing the state had created the very condition that people such as Paisley had argued had obtained from the first : the rise of old-fashioned nationalist anti-partitionism . |
| 15 | While it is essential , not only for the support through food supply for indigenous populations but also to provide a sound base on which economic progress can be made , it is unfortunate that in so many cases injudicious land-use practices have negated the very factor , increased productivity , that they sought to improve . |
| 16 | It is readily apparent that some courts , and some judges , have used the very ambiguity inherent in that dichotomy in an instrumental fashion ; the decision whether to label a part of the X factor as jurisdictional or non-jurisdictional is influenced by a judicial desire to intervene or not as the case may be . |
| 17 | We have tapped the very essence of the wine that wells from our own souls and there is no wine like the wine from the grapes of mystical vineyards . |
| 18 | Assure you , my good liege , I hold my duty as I hold my soul , Both to my God and to my gracious King ; And I do think , or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do , that I have found The very cause of Hamlet 's lunacy … |
| 19 | But if we lost in 1992 — as we certainly lost in 1987 — because prosperous voters feared that we would reduce their disposable income , we will not win back those middle income families by pretending that we have abandoned the very purpose of our creation and our existence . |
| 20 | Other campaigners have questioned the very need for the line in the first place . |
| 21 | Any elevation of Gloucester to a position of supreme authority during the minority would , however , have destroyed the very continuity which , on this interpretation , Edward was seeking . |
| 22 | Any elevation of Gloucester to a position of supreme authority during the minority would , however , have destroyed the very continuity which , on this interpretation , Edward was seeking . |
| 23 | The energy paths of every being which literally made their way along here before me have permeated the very fabric of the earth and my footsteps are well guided indeed . |