Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] very " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ’ Typically , Morrissey seems to cherish the very constraints and despondency of a now disappearing England , fetishize the lost limits . |
| 3 | Arenberg , quoted in US trade magazine Variety , further claims that the US police are set to enforce the very letter of the law . |
| 4 | At best , all any such pill might ever be able to do is to affect the very general housekeeping biochemical processes required for the expression of memory . |
| 5 | Bisset , using a description of Taking the Side of the Other as a justification for the tactic , concluded that ‘ there are states of society in which it would be proper to contract the very opinions that it would be right to cherish in other circumstances ’ ( Bisset , 1800 : 269 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Uncle , I thought that you would like to see the very spot where they burned the books , ’ she said . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | FitzAlan shifted one hand to the nape of her neck , holding her still , while that probing gaze seemed to penetrate the very depths of her soul . |
| 9 | Butler remarks the importance of repetition in the process of resistance and transformation : ‘ The task is … to repeat and , through a radical proliferation of gender , to displace the very gender norms that enable the repetition itself ’ ( Gender Trouble , 148 ) . |
| 10 | Another would be to say he attempted to theorize the very position that Sartre had fought to get out of . |
| 11 | Eligibility for the scheme is defined in such a way as to exclude the very people who 've been worst hit by the cuts and to maximise the infl influence on the unemployment figures . |
| 12 | What an academic gaffe — that was the year that saw the publication of Charles Darwin 's The Origin of Species , a book that was to shake the very foundations of Western thought ! |
| 13 | The message had been brief — a mere minute and three quarters of scrambled signal — yet it was potentially enough , in its decoded form , to shake the very foundations of the Seven . |
| 14 | Groups of winsome lads violate the faith of the believers with acts which are sufficient to shake the very roots of piety . |
| 15 | In spite of the difficulties caused by the weather , Carrie produced a meal of baked rabbit , potatoes , swede and carrots and put it in front of Seb while the wind rattled the door and windows and an occasional gust seemed to shake the very house itself . |
| 16 | He was possessed with the desire to discover the very secret of life itself . |
| 17 | And for that reason I do n't believe this is really any form of constraint on new development which could obviously be built with er appropriate foundations to absorb the very slight movement that takes place when undermining occurs . |
| 18 | If a child has been made the subject of a supervision requirement following a referral to a children 's hearing on an offence ground , and that supervision requirement has been terminated and the child reappears before another children 's hearing , the main factors that the later hearing will need to consider to perform their statutory functions are why the child appeared before a children 's hearing , the reasons for that hearing 's disposal and , most particularly , the child 's response to the disposal ; in short , a children 's hearing would want to know the very things section 4 appears to prevent it ascertaining . |
| 19 | It would cease to be recognizable as the river which the local people enjoyed , but it would become a very efficient drain , so that their sitting-rooms would no longer be ruined periodically , and farmers with land adjacent to the river would be able to grow more and better crops to feed the very people who were complaining . |
| 20 | I 'd probe inside that fascinating red hole to view the very core of her femininity . ’ |
| 21 | But for their middle-class , middle-aged , CD-buying target audience , such shows , which tend to concentrate on either the roots of popular music or music from the less-developed world , offer the chance to explore the very ‘ essence ’ of a musical culture . |
| 22 | The opinion evidence was not admissible as it sought to answer the very matter that was for the Special Commissioner 's decision , a question for which the witness was not qualified as an expert . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Communist Manifesto sets out unequivocally to destroy the very institutions which God created as the basis for the social order . |
| 25 | But to insist that women somehow amputate their love and compassion is to ask them to destroy the very thing which in my view favourably distinguishes us from men . |
| 26 | But you went back to the hangar a second time with your matches to start a second fire — to destroy the very work which you did . ’ |
| 27 | To bring that about in a timescale which meets the present crisis for world peace would be likely to create the very wars we are seeking to avoid . |
| 28 | The final qualification is that a print-maker , to reach the very top of the tree , must be known and appreciated by the Japanese . |
| 29 | TO reach the very top in sport nowadays requires tremendous dedication and commitment , as Scotland 's cricketers are about to demonstrate . |
| 30 | More than 10 years passed before a reporter at the Capital Times of Madison discovered that Strickland , in mid-1971 , had become a stockholder and officer in a corporation set up by Heber to sell the very techniques of educational intervention that Strickland credited in his article . |