very purpose
collocation in Englishmeaningsofveryandpurpose
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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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purpose
noun
uk/ˈpɜː.pəs/us/ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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(Definition ofveryandpurposefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofvery purpose
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They proposed a development fund for thisverypurpose, but what has happened to that fund today?
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Theverypurposeof setting up a national care standards commission is to do that, as well as to regulate and inspect social care.
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The second floor committee had a special meeting for theverypurposeof discussing the matter at five o'clock last night.
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It is established in law that reproducing a work for theverypurposefor which it was intended does not amount to fair dealing.
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Well, such is theverypurposeof this amendment.
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Settlers have located themselves contiguous to prairies for theverypurposeof getting the benefit of the range.
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Most developmental research, as well as the whole of epidemiology, uses group analyses for thisverypurpose.
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At stake here is a redefinition of theverypurposeof writing about the customs and culture of the poor.
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If model predictions sometimes appear to run ahead of the known facts, that is theverypurposeof models.
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Allowing strikebreakers or non-union members to work alongside them in the waterfront warehouses would defeat theverypurposeof their organisational strategy.
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That is theverypurposeof declarative programming - to make it more likely that we mean what we say by improving our ability to say what we mean.
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In other words, it could be said that theverypurposeof a causal semantics for nets is to distinguish tokens according to their causal history.
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This position yields many valuable individual insights, but it ultimately blinds him to the potential value of those few remarkable compositions whoseverypurposeis to reveal a system.
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For many, the idea that a bill of rights would be subject to legislative review seems to turn theverypurposeof having a bill of rights on its head.
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That way must lie disaster and frustration of theverypurposefor which the personnel of the board has been so carefully selected.
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That is theverypurposeof what we are talking about.
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Many people have bought very high frequency sets for theverypurposeof enjoying this programme, and they need to be protected.
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Theverypurposeof having instituted an independent examination by accountants is to find out whether that is so.
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That is showing a cynical disregard of theverypurposefor which we are here.
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