very foundation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofveryandfoundation
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very
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈver.i/us/ˈver.i/
(used to add emphasis to a noun) exact ...
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foundation
noun
uk/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/us/faʊnˈdeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when an organization, state, etc. ...
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(Definition ofveryandfoundationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is no unsightly byproduct of logic but theveryfoundationof the socio-moral order.
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The subtext here is powerfully subtle: the acknowledgement of postcolonial thought actually subverts theveryfoundationof that thought.
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Perhaps understandably, the government was unwilling to concede this point, as the building's removal was theveryfoundationfor the plan having been commissioned.
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Content sharing, so understood, is theveryfoundationof communication.
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It was itsveryfoundation.
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This act of misreading is not simply an unhappy and rare occurrence in a critic's life: it is the epitome, theveryfoundationof that life.
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This question of physical treatment lies at theveryfoundationof any educational arrangements.
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Theveryfoundationof those grants is that there should be equality of assessment throughout the country.
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This is taking away theveryfoundationof our nation.
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Perhaps this is not in order, but, after all, these questions go to theveryfoundationof the whole scheme.
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It means being deprived of home; theveryfoundationof life is removed.
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Why do not we say that there is one thing which matters more than anything else, which is theveryfoundationof our national life.
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I have investigated that story to itsveryfoundation.
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And what is theveryfoundationof morale?
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If we get them wrong, our intelligence, which should be theveryfoundationof policy, becomes a waste of time and money.
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In some countries, those ruthless individuals are ready to undermine theveryfoundationof decent society.
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It is theveryfoundationof everything that we are seeking to achieve, and anything else would be a foundation of sand.
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He never left a case until he had got as far as insight conducted him to theveryfoundationof it.
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Those are the two questions which seem to me to lie at theveryfoundationof the controversy.
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It is of theveryfoundationof the judicial independence that judges have security of tenure.
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