Example sentences of "very [adv] [pers pn] [vb -s] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before very long he becomes the leader of one of the most powerful teenage gangs in Brooklyn . |
| 2 | Well he had a night off , it 's not very often he has a night off , so |
| 3 | At the very least it prompts the response ‘ What elements of the media ? |
| 4 | But since such progress is conceived as immanent to musical history itself , independent of variants of musical practice , social usage and reception , the theory moves dangerously close to a hypostasis of technique ; at the very least it confines the relationship between musical and social structures to the level of the longue durée , since at that level society is ‘ encapsulated ’ in music , while in between , music 's ‘ autonomous unfoldment … follows the social dynamics without a glance or any direct communication ’ ( ibid : 206–7 ) , still less putting itself at the service of particular social subjects . |
| 5 | His theory is controversial , to put it mildly ; but at the very least he portrays the kind of different , ‘ alien ’ intelligence our ancestors may have had . ) |
| 6 | Because Neil plays very hard he produces a lot of power through the pickups , and he has recently realised that he ca n't just put any pickup with any EQ system , otherwise the signal from the bass simply overloads things … |
| 7 | Very commonly it provides the energy for the synthesis of vitamin D ( tortoises kept as pets in northern latitudes may find it difficult to breed because they are D-deficient ) . |