Example sentences of "is the very [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But it is the very acuteness of his suffering from this starvation which gives such poignancy to his art . |
| 2 | Nationalism , like capitalism , is the very bedrock of European organisation : nationalism of one sort or another constitutes the building blocks for the construction of markets , the creation of transport networks , tariff barriers , for banking systems , for economies of scale in industry and business , for defining which internal and which external markets are to exploited and to what degree . |
| 3 | The notion is the very opposite to that widespread but typically Greek attribution of envy to the universe itself , as divinely personified by the envy of the gods , who lie in wait to punish the good fortune or prominence of mortals . |
| 4 | France enjoys an attitude to local government which is the very opposite of the worst excesses of British local government . |
| 5 | This always increases muscular tension which is the very opposite of what you are trying to achieve . |
| 6 | Does my hon. Friend agree that what has happened in East Timor is the very opposite of good governance and that that ought to influence our aid programme to Indonesia ? |
| 7 | Mutation is random ; natural selection is the very opposite of random . |
| 8 | Hollywood is the very pantheon of capitalism . |
| 9 | What is seldom revealed in the history books , though perfectly easy to verify , is that Darwin 's contribution was less a paper than a rambling series of notes which contained nothing novel , whereas Wallace 's " Ternate " paper was the first complete exposition in writing of " Descent and Divergence with modification through variation and Natural Selection " — which is the very kernel of what has become known as the " Darwinian " theory of evolution . |
| 10 | Therefore , it is the very ordinariness of the RUC 's policing in Easton which is surprising and provides the greatest disjuncture with public imagery rather than the fact that it contradicts , to some extent , the formal regimen of the police manual or the bureaucratic ethos of police management . |
| 11 | The day is drawing on and this apothecary 's shop is the very gateway to Hell . |
| 12 | Ranges of imagery such as that of the plough may be symbolic , but are only so in a particular type of fabliau symbolism : disgraceful or phallic in their symbolic reference in a manner that is the very antitype of Christian moralization . |
| 13 | One form of assent is the very act of claiming or exercising the right . |
| 14 | This mundane fact is the very crux of the social world . |
| 15 | Even a cursory look at gay history and culture suggests that the sweep and conclusions of his argument are questionable at virtually every turn , as indeed is the very notion of a homosexual sensibility . |
| 16 | A home is the very heart of life . |
| 17 | The old town is the very heart of St Gallen , concentrated in an oval formed roughly by the Moosbruggstrasse , Oberergraben , Marktplatz and an extension of the Torstrasse from the Bruhl Tor to the Spiser Tor . |
| 18 | Here on the shores of the Urner See is the very heart of Switzerland . |
| 19 | Putting an element in rheme position means that it is part of what the speaker has to say , and that is the very core of any message . |
| 20 | I have christened her the Blessed Dawg and her large brown eyes are filled with sorrowful compassion , her wrinkled forehead , which was bequeathed by her bloodhound ancestors , is the very epitome of worried concern . |
| 21 | If the philosophical discontinuity Foucault describes is truly occurring , then an inside or reflexive exploration of police practice should reveal the strength of these divisive classificatory techniques , for any binary separation of man by his contemporaries into the non-human categories suggested by Leach ( 1982 ) is the very stuff of anthropology . |
| 22 | Steve Biko , a brave and remarkable man who met a tragic death in the course of a patriotic struggle : this is the very stuff of opera . |
| 23 | Quite how individual that voice could become is underlined in the surest possible way in his later Corelli Variations Op. 42 of 1931 : the monumental is the very stuff of which they are made . |
| 24 | Controversy , intrigue , the literary spilling of blood is the very stuff of the Guitarist letters page . |
| 25 | This is the very stuff of college life . |
| 26 | They remind us that this is the very beginning of the idea of representing the world about us as it actually appears ; that we must think away our hindsight and remember that these artists could not see the way ahead . |
| 27 | Janneau VSOP is the very cream of Armagnacs available in this country , and confers on its devotees a certain ‘ Janneau-sait-quoi ’ , which the advertising has not been slow to demonstrate . |
| 28 | When Mr Royalton-Kisch goes on to describe this joint session of study as a ‘ known feature of the Rembrandt workshop ’ , I am delighted because it is the very foundation of my own very different view of Rembrandt and his school . |
| 29 | But this is the very ability for which we are trying to account . |
| 30 | You fellow Christians — never lose the warm love for your Lord , because that is the very centre of your service for him . |