Example sentences of "[noun] lie at the very " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The ideal milieu , ’ says the reply from the WCC , ‘ would be in a Third World country ( where ) the ‘ laboratory ’ for research lies at the very door-step of the academic institution .
2 This duty which every partner owes to each of his co-partners lies at the very heart of the partnership relationship .
3 Wealth generation and the creation of employment opportunities lie at the very heart of economic development .
4 Leicestershire lay at the very heart of open-field England .
5 A feeling of failure lies at the very heart of Serb nationalism , and with that come all the various justifications for this failure : all the various Cominterns , masonries and their unbelievable plots .
6 Somehow or other that piece of parchment and the seed cake lie at the very heart of the murder and they must know something about both .
7 His room lay at the very end of the corridor , beyond the locked doors of closets and bedrooms and attic steps .
8 Catalysts lie at the very heart of the chemicals industry .
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