Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | In short , as I said at the very beginning of this series of lectures , you must n't treat what as I say as gospel erm I am perfectly capable of being a little bit eccentric , possibly even a little bit erm original erm in my interpretations . |
| 2 | But with stunning clarity they demonstrate again how the great reformer has unleashed forces which he and his country no longer control , and which now are playing on the German Question itself , the issue which lies at the very heart of today 's European order . |
| 3 | ‘ ... there is a resistance to identity which lies at the very heart of psychic life . ’ |
| 4 | By designating such materials as in varying degrees precious they have created symbols of excellence , a quality which stems from aesthetic awareness but the striving for which lies at the very root of the civilizations created by man . |
| 5 | The prime consideration should be the evaluation and use of evidence , which lies at the very heart of the historical method . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | How much to vary the product according to the market was a problem which hit at the very heart of the business . |
| 8 | So the Christian who glories in a non-rational basis for his faith leaves himself vulnerable to a particularly lethal blow which strikes at the very foundation of faith . |
| 9 | I found it my calling to be the one in the NME office who flinched at the very sight of their wibbly-wobbly figurines and pretend four-track album which was really 12 tracks , the over-educated jessies ! |
| 10 | She laughed at the very thought of it because she doubted it was possible because her conception of God was too small . |
| 11 | In other words , friends at the school and the idea , as you said at the very beginning of your paper , is to report without any kind of erm censorship or judgment . |
| 12 | But who you see at the very beginning they must have established what the roles were . |
| 13 | Admittedly such corollaries as ‘ Face facts ’ , which we introduced at the very start of the discussion in the first chapter , do support their authority by the urgency of factual awareness in choices of means . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Local authorities were anxious to redevelop the area as soon as possible , as it lies at the very heart of the town 's commercial district . |
| 16 | At least she would n't either bully or patronise him , his usual lot amongst the cathedral clergy , ranking as he did at the very bottom of the cathedral hierarchy . |
| 17 | There is an argument that treason is a more serious offence , since it strikes at the very foundations of the State and its social organizations , but treason is so rare that it is surely permissible to treat homicide as the most serious form of crime . |
| 18 | Will the Secretary of State answer that question truthfully because it strikes at the very heart of democracy ? |
| 19 | It strikes at the very fundamentals of a free press , by placing a cost barrier on access to information . |
| 20 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |
| 21 | It begins at the very beginning . |
| 22 | But worse is that it comes at the very moment Davies and Jeff Young , the WRU technical director , and forward-looking others have put into place a representative structure designed to facilitate the flow of full international candidates . |