Example sentences of "[noun] at the very [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will mean more doubtful inward investment at the very moment when this country needs such investment most , as we come out of the recession . |
| 2 | You er , ma , it balances out the er , benefits from like the whole of the term and it 's not necessarily , like a with profits system , you get a lot of bonuses at the very end . |
| 3 | The coins , therefore , should give a good indication of examples in circulation at the very end of the fourth century . |
| 4 | " The Orthodox clergy and Church in the western area " , he said , " will not assume the status appropriate to their rank so long as this same clergy at the very centre of the state remain in their present condition and on their present level " . |
| 5 | I was paralysed with fear at the very thought of making eye contact with them , let alone playing the teacher . |
| 6 | The challenge of integrity against hypocrisy , made by Emilia at the very end of Othello , is placed first in King Lear . |
| 7 | An additional irony at the very end of this fabliau resides in the claim that Boivin himself " made " this fabliau , and was paid ten sous by the provost for it . |
| 8 | It is empirical facts of this general kind which justify the fieldworking anthropologist in putting domestic relationships at the very centre of his research interests . |
| 9 | Miranda left the room quickly , so that her mother should not see the redness that covered her face and neck at the very thought of seeing Miles in bed … in pyjamas . |
| 10 | She was the living embodiment of '80s values — the self-made , in-control businesswoman and keep-fit fanatic , heroine of a materialist generation , who ruthlessly and determinedly made herself an icon , flirting , taunting , toying with sexual and religious imagery and playing dangerous games with the madonna/whore complex at the very heart of the feminine psyche . |
| 11 | Completion must be her watchword now , whatever admissions it entailed ; and was not completion at the very heart of the Coniunctio — the central symbol which had proved the stumbling-stone of her work ? |
| 12 | He had apparently had the misfortune to be dumped at the end of this bus-queue at the very moment when cinemas , dance-halls and public-houses were spewing forth their patrons on to the pavements . |
| 13 | It leaves a gap at the very centre of the knowledge which the rational procedures of the sciences are continually expanding , with nothing to fill it except deduction from principles themselves ungrounded , or habit , or religious or political emotion , or the Existentialist 's anguished leap in the dark , or doing as one pleases , or as convention or fashion pleases . |
| 14 | thin voices at the very brink of sense |
| 15 | One of the popular books at the very outbreak of war captured the mood , Mrs Miniver ( 1939 ) ; an American best seller and subsequently a most successful film , it is said that it hastened America 's entry into the war . |
| 16 | If it is largely the public-school spirit which has made England great in the past , any means by which a similar spirit may be fostered in the boys who leave the elementary schools at the very age when the sons of the monied classes are entering on the most valuable years of their school career , is of incalculable importance . |
| 17 | The Yek who ruled this world lived according to a complex code of law at the very core of which was a presumption which affected every part of their existence — the belief that technological advancement was to a great extent incompatible with the maintenance of civilisation . |
| 18 | In the mornings I used to sit out in the warm sun of our terrace and read the travellers ' descriptions of the Delhi they knew from their visits at the very apex of the Mughal Empire . |
| 19 | it gives him , in fairness , time to think out the answer rather than hearing the question at the very end . |
| 20 | Ecstasy in downtown Johannesburg at the very moment crowds outside the supreme court heard that Yanoush Valus and Clive Derby-Lewis , two men driven by cold political fanaticism to assassinate Chris Harney , had themselves been sentenced to death . |
| 21 | What is most probable is that Ceolwulf resigned the kingship at the very end of 737 and that Eadberht 's accession occurred in early 738 . |
| 22 | Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning . |
| 23 | Gales of laughter at the very idea . |
| 24 | Both features resembled their names to a baffling degree but , despite this , Abu was moved to expound upon them with such fervent body language that we nearly plunged into the ravine and terminated our lives at the very lip of the sacred symbol of where we had begun it . |
| 25 | It is significant that a popular monarch , making war at the very start of his reign , after a long period of peace , could only raise such inadequate sums . |
| 26 | A good idea is to attach stickers announcing when the last change was made : otherwise , you can be running a clapped-out tube at the very time it 's most needed . |
| 27 | Herrick 's was forty li east of Liu Chang 's , a tiny , crowded place at the very bottom of the City , below the Net . |
| 28 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 29 | And yet we often find that examinations take place at the very time of year when there is most likelihood of a heatwave . |
| 30 | Then you have a bit of the petal free to get hold of right at the very tip . |