Example sentences of "[verb] at the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Spotting the publisher delegates blanching at the very idea , he added , reassuringly : ‘ In the US the publishers price to cope with the secondhand market , and with discounting too . |
| 32 | I was reading Mauriac the other day : the Mémoires intérieurs , written at the very end of his life . |
| 33 | So it 's looking at the very beginning bit of childhood . |
| 34 | I have no doubt that , in the light of developments , the Government and our Community partners will be looking at the very matters to which my hon. Friend has drawn attention . |
| 35 | But why stop to wonder at the very point where cause for wonder really begins ? |
| 36 | Restrop was built at the very height of the great Elizabethan age , when the craft of building began to turn into an art . |
| 37 | and we do have , some of this slides which , I 'll show at the very end , alright , but it means it er , erm , the first part of the talk we 'll keep the lights on and then could I ask you , you know to look and then pass it around like school |
| 38 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
| 39 | What must be accepted at the very basis of any enquiry is that it is not , as Taylor puts it , " a command , as in conventional search strategy , but rather as a description of an area of doubt in which the question is open-ended , negotiable and dynamic . " |
| 40 | Admittedly , this last complaint , made at the very start of the chapter , is harsher than it sounds . |
| 41 | Eleanor was right when she had said at the very beginning that he should have gone along with the corporate planning proposals to phase-out the UK Vehicle Division as a manufacturing operation . |
| 42 | The miraculous tales were set down in writing at the very beginning of literacy , even before the Homeric poems of the eighth century BC . |
| 43 | This was seen at the very moment of James V 's death . |
| 44 | This splendid though rather whimsical riverside house was built as a granary , conveniently positioned at the very head of the navigable part of the River Cam along which barges laden with corn could travel from King 's Lynn and the fenland farming areas . |
| 45 | Thus when carnal and financial imagery in the tale finally merge in the puns taille and taillynge at the very end , it is an emblem of how much deeper the " " bretherhede " " and " " cosynage " " runs that the monk and the merchant imagine exists between them in the form of play , or as a polite figure of speech , and how concrete it is . |
| 46 | And to my recollection , no one for whom Prost has ever driven has had a bad word to say about him , save at the very end of Prost 's career with Renault , when other factors that had nothing to do with driving intruded . |
| 47 | Mr Michael King , regional secretary for the association , said it would provide accommodation where it was needed at the very bottom of the housing ladder . |
| 48 | As they drew nearer to the damage and she could see that it was even worse than it had looked from afar , Ronni felt herself recoil at the very thought that her own brother could be responsible for such a thing . |
| 49 | Catalysts lie at the very heart of the chemicals industry . |
| 50 | Wealth generation and the creation of employment opportunities lie at the very heart of economic development . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | And when the platform emptied , he could see at the very end of it , a forlorn figure sitting all by herself . |
| 53 | In fact , many Club guests choose to take the full trips package at the very start of their holiday , which means they know that certain nights out and meals are already catered for — and you 'll be amazed how much that can save you on the food and drinks bill . |
| 54 | The blood of my forefathers , all men of the sea … tingled at the very thought . ’ |
| 55 | The band performed at the very peak of their live power and the volatile Scottish crowds responded accordingly . |
| 56 | The chemical , codenamed cis- DDP , acts at the very site where cancer begins — the DNA . |
| 57 | Thus eclecticism is avoided at the very stage in the process where it is most needed . |
| 58 | Nevertheless it is worth considering whether some implicit model of accountability underlies all forms of evaluation whatever their stated purposes ( an issue that was raised at the very beginning of Chapter 1 ) . |
| 59 | It 's from both of them , repeated verbatim despite the howls of protest raised at the very idea of it all . |
| 60 | Incidentally , one of the curious phenomena of my library is that when you take out Bleddyn 's autobiography from the shelves it automatically opens at the very page mentioned above . |