Example sentences of "[prep] the very [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lofoten apart , though , Keyes 's private armies were to chafe at the bit of ministry reins throughout the summer of 1941 , while remaining dependent on these masters for the very shoe-string of their existence as Commandos . |
| 2 | Even if you are hoping to work in a subordinate position for the very person who is interviewing you , you do not need to take a passive role in the interview . |
| 3 | The international challenge did not meet Martin Lester 's target in full , largely due to the fact that , wherever international representatives attend the major rallies , they do so for the very purpose of demonstrating their national speciality and no other . |
| 4 | In all cases , do not alter the position of any fittings on the cross-spars — they should be a very tight fit for the very purpose of staying where set ! |
| 5 | War between East and West would not only be a contest between states and power blocs , but ways of life ( ‘ classes ’ ) : more likely to be ‘ a struggle for the very existence of the two opposing world-wide systems ’ than a limited engagement . |
| 6 | Predation by man on the bigger fish should , in theory , leave more small fish for the birds , but sadly , ‘ industrial ’ fishing for even the smallest and immature fish is a fact of life which has serious implications for the very existence of our sea-bird communities should it be allowed to go on unchecked . |
| 7 | There may be a great temptation to try and do this as part of a justification for the very existence of the media relations programme . |
| 8 | Indeed , as has already been highlighted in the previous discussion of cultural politics , the opposition between progressive and reactionary forces became so marked with the rise of fascism that it was less a question of reactionary versus progressive culture , than a struggle for the very existence of culture itself . |
| 9 | More significantly , as is already clear from our discussion so far , functional psychosis also contains within itself a potential for the very opposite of deficit , the occasional capacity for superlative functioning and high achievement ; this is the paradox of which we wrote in the previous chapter . |
| 10 | For two years Vlasov was limited to the depressing task of fighting for the very survival of his movement . |
| 11 | But maybe your Ministerial colleague is n't going right for the very top , McLeish thought with unreasonable conviction , and you were going to stop her working at Yeo Davis when you could . |
| 12 | The village like atmosphere of the Leidseplein ; the hustle and bustle of trams , canal boats , street musicians and organ players outside the Central Station ; the energetic buzz of the mildly naughty Rembrandtplein ; the peace and calm of the traditional Jordaan area and for the very brave the decidedly naughty but small red light district . |
| 13 | That argument showed that knowledge of the external world can not be reduced to behavioural dispositions , for the very idea of a disposition functions only in the context of an unreduced grasp on the physical world . |
| 14 | For the very fountain head of the triboluminescent effect mentioned in these columns to the astonishment of the entire civilised world , had been unable to produce a single flash from a load of peppermints hot from the press or the ovens or whatever machinery is used . |
| 15 | There was a lot of support from your colleagues if you were in trouble for the very reason that they knew if they gave you help , you 'd automatically give it them . |
| 16 | For the very reason that he could not lift Lucy 's dark tresses and have a look , he could not slip his hand on to her neck . |
| 17 | It was , Mr. Langley submitted , for the very reason that section 39 overrode confidence that the provisions of sections 82 to 84 were incorporated by Parliament , laying down careful guidelines for the preservation of confidence by the recipients of information under the Act , subject to specified exceptions . |
| 18 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 19 | In fact we 've just refused er the application er to change the use of that site to housing , or some of that site to housing , er for the very reason that we want to keep it in employment use and at the same meeting we also refused another site , another major employment site , erm and we want to keep that in employment use as well . |
| 20 | It is the latter who has the transformational capabilities for the very creation of animal meat . |
| 21 | If I can pick up with motion three eight zero which refers to the privatation of sat statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay the C E C would like reference back on this for the very basis that the point is they do still remain State benefits and those who qualify them , for them , are legally entitled to do so . |
| 22 | The man of unity possesses no rivals for the very meaning of unity is to be at one with all men and all things . |
| 23 | One for the very keep fishkeeper then , but a very efficient and accurate bit of kit when used properly . |
| 24 | It 's been amazing for the very fact that everything is so different , every job is different . |
| 25 | Ironically it was during the very period that heroin was covertly establishing a hold in the community that concern about adolescents misusing solvents was the subject of official response . |
| 26 | The gentleness and kindness which they preached as the very foundation of its teaching , and as insisted on by Jesus Christ himself , now stands starkly contrasted with the history of cruelty and violence perpetrated over the centuries in the name of Christianity . |
| 27 | Protest which Soviet historians disparage as ‘ spontaneous ’ and unreflecting , and which liberal historians see as mindless and destructive , libertarians regard as the very stuff of history . |
| 28 | The New Right in choosing to focus on , and criticise , pressure groups , parties , and elected governments as the very stuff of British politics , chooses to ignore other phenomena that are of political significance , such as the power of the secret state that we will be considering in Chapter S. Moreover , although it is a perspective which is critical of things , criticism is restricted to politics , and to democratic politics at that , and there is no attempt to direct critical attention to the functioning of the economic system and to the power which lurks hidden within it . |
| 29 | It is possible to catalogue a chorus of social self-congratulation , as respectable commentators recount the positive achievement of tranquillity since the days of their youth , as the very epitome of social progress . |
| 30 | Freedom of the press has a long history , but it is only since 1980 that the right to communicate and the freedom that it entails has been seen as the very centre of human rights , and indeed as a precondition for a meaningful implementation of other human rights . |