Example sentences of "at the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , we are really talking , I believe , about developing democracy and accountability and power for people at the very grassroots of the community ’ . |
| 2 | Such were the small gains to be made from a playing career at the very top . |
| 3 | The understated elegance of the build , the sheer unabated enjoyability of the ride and the consummately satisfying conclusions place Francis at the very top : ‘ thriller ’ is really too crude a word for his achievement . |
| 4 | Even at the very top of the market there are amazing bargains . |
| 5 | Mr Smith said : ‘ However well intentioned the reform may have been and however well it may work in schools sufficiently funded for it to work , the fact is too many of its side-effects are visible , malign and damaging and John Patten must have at the very top of his agenda an urgent review . ’ |
| 6 | Unfortunately the apartment was at the very top and it was quite a struggle to drag Maidstone up the eight or ten flights of stairs . |
| 7 | While he believed that football had grown too complex to be a mere ‘ director 's hobby ’ , Chapman set out to foster harmonious relations at the very top , by acting in a spirit of co-operation with his directors , keeping them fully informed of team matters , and taking their suggestions into account . |
| 8 | At the very top of the hill is a natural outcrop known as the Banbury Stone . |
| 9 | I also get all sorts of people , from average riders wanting a family horse to have fun with to those whose sights are fixed at the very top . |
| 10 | TRÉPAIL : A white chalky-marl is exposed at the very top of the slopes . |
| 11 | Three men stood , tiny , at the very top of the geometrical iron web , leaning their arms on its highest horizontal bar . |
| 12 | Lee felt a little puffed ; the apartment was at the very top of a tall riverside block without a lift . |
| 13 | And then , via the exigencies of first the Eagle 's Nest itself and then , 15′ higher , the Crow 's Nest , the crux at the very top is reached — and a lovely move it is . |
| 14 | Sacrifices must start at the very top with those who can most afford them . |
| 15 | YOUNG pretenders Curtis Robb and David Grindley last night discovered that it 's tough at the very top . |
| 16 | And they got out at the very top . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That must have taken some delicate handling , to get a man at the very top in that secret society . ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps , mused the pundits , he is needed now — at the very top . |
| 19 | The fifth feature is the development of so-called ‘ parallel networks ’ , which cross-cut the formal or official organization of the state , and cause a concentration of powers to accumulate at the very top of the executive . |
| 20 | At the very top of the market , Reylon 's Woolsack bed has pocket springs upholstered purely with lambswool for extra luxury and softness . |
| 21 | In addition , there is still considerable social closure and self-recruitment at the very top of the occupational structure . |
| 22 | At the very top of the hierarchy , elite recruitment shows the most social closure . |
| 23 | At the very top are those superior employees — librarian , tutor , governess , lady 's companion — who not only work but live on the family side of the house , and may sometimes even eat at the family table . |
| 24 | At the very top of the structure , at the point of the cone , a space had been left open to let in the light . |
| 25 | Now , the squeeze should be from the tax at the very top . |
| 26 | at the very top . |
| 27 | General Nocenzi had offered his office for the young Prince 's use , and it was there , at the very top of the vast , three-hundred-level fortress , that he planned to meet the boy . |
| 28 | The people at the very top of MI6 insisted Nowak stayed in place . ’ |
| 29 | But of course they were quoting at the very top of Leamington 's rate , and since then it 's gone right down . |
| 30 | Can you co up again if you can co I 'm going back to The reason being that the approach to the business was one of quality and a large amount of hand-finishing , and , the leathers were aimed mainly at the , saddlery and leather goods trade and also only at the very top end of the shoe trade . |