Example sentences of "to the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conflicts which have developed over land and housing can also be linked up to the very mobility of incomers . |
| 2 | Apart from the inherent implausibility of this claim , Althusser argues that if Marx were to defend it he would be vulnerable to the very criticism which he made of classical economy . |
| 3 | If it is to be regarded as a genuine composition from the court of Cadwallon , it would seem to belong to the very eve of Hatfield . |
| 4 | The chaotic and often brutal policing of the march contributed to the very problem which the RUC was supposed to control . |
| 5 | This is not good practice as it leads to confusion amongst users with an increased possibility of errors that may lead to the very problem the procedure was trying to avoid . |
| 6 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 7 | ‘ One year and two months , to the very day , ’ he said firmly . |
| 8 | My poor mother had got corns on across her her knuckles , right to the very day she died , from scrubbing for different people , and skivvying , up there . |
| 9 | This furious will to live to the very limits , which is shared by the heroine of The Distant Lands , is something that Julian Green has never lost . |
| 10 | There was a restlessness in the time that communicated itself everywhere and to everyone , that communicated itself to the very sounds in Britain 's air , the stones beneath Britain 's feet . |
| 11 | They could even have suspected me had they not found the two sets of footprints in the soft snow right up to the very hedge where Martin was hiding . |
| 12 | Yet her range of interests , in a field that has moved from comparative policy neglect to the very centre of the community care reforms , has been wider than almost all the others . |
| 13 | Aymer 's father , William de Valence ( d. 1296 ) , was one of Henry III 's Lusignan half-brothers , and his close ties with his nephew Edward I brought the family to the very centre of power . |
| 14 | Then yet more came and brought with them great Stones which one day they started to take to the very centre place of Callanish itself . |
| 15 | Rocked to the very centre of her being , all thought of resistance erased from her mind , she stared wide-eyed at his dark , angular face as if imprinting it on her brain . |
| 16 | But I can find my way to the very centre of it . |
| 17 | Luke took her hand , but instead of shaking it lifted it to his mouth and turned it over to press his lips to the very centre of her palm , watching the shock that widened her grey eyes at the tingling contact . |
| 18 | His hand moved with agonising slowness over the silken skin of her thigh and the breath caught in her throat , everything within her willing his hand to move closer and closer still to the very centre of her need for him . |
| 19 | We 're dealing with fear , we 're dealing with a sense of vulnerability and impotence and how do you teach grown ups to deal with those issues , because a lot of them erm the for a lot of them these kinds of questions go to the very centre of who they are , their self image . |
| 20 | And bobbying and what it means , if you have eye on writing this sort of book , is what you will first have to absorb to the very marrow of your bones . |
| 21 | A sense of well-being , of transformation and enlightenment , penetrates to the very marrow of his bones . |
| 22 | Ruth swung to see his eyes had changed to cold hostility and the set of his jaw was so damned determined it chilled her to the very marrow of her bones . |
| 23 | He wanted very much to walk out onto a pier — those constructions built so that people who have come to the sea to get away from their place of work can , for a moment , almost leave their working life behind , can go to the very edge of their week 's holiday and then dream of going further . |
| 24 | I wanted to drive her to the very edge of despair . |
| 25 | I went to the very edge and walked along it like a tightrope . |
| 26 | He had crept to the very edge of the wood to watch it and while he was there had heard the faint sound of hooves on stones and occasional voices . |
| 27 | He urged his horse forward to the very edge of the moat , for he had not so loud a voice as his nephew . |
| 28 | And so , in the early years of the nineteenth century American sailors set out in contest , the seaward extension of those landlubbers who , to use John L. O'Sullivan 's famous phrase of 1845 , sought their ‘ manifest destiny ’ on land by expanding ever westward , to the very edge of the continental United States . |
| 29 | Oriel windows projected over a void which fell away forever to the very edge of the universe itself , if such an edge existed . |
| 30 | Charles Briant had spoken in his fine voice that carried to the very edge of the crowd , telling the people of Swansea how talented and gifted was Angharad Morgan . |