Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at the very " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cells are lost from the tips of the folds and the stem cells are located at the very base of the folds . |
| 2 | A combative mood at the congress had been set at the very opening of proceedings when the first speaker in the debate on the agenda , Vladimir Bludov from Magadan in the Far East , had called for the entire politburo to resign . |
| 3 | It should be harnessed at the very moment . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 8 | But of course they were quoting at the very top of Leamington 's rate , and since then it 's gone right down . |
| 9 | TRÉPAIL : A white chalky-marl is exposed at the very top of the slopes . |
| 10 | So it 's looking at the very beginning bit of childhood . |
| 11 | The rig change is done at the very end of the turn which will involve a few seconds of clew first sailing |
| 12 | Thus eclecticism is avoided at the very stage in the process where it is most needed . |
| 13 | Striptease … is based on a contradiction : Woman is desexualised at the very moment when she is stripped naked . |
| 14 | ( ‘ Crucify , crucify ! ’ ) that is articulated at the very top of the treble register and brings the work to its climax — an unforgettable piece of composition unequalled anywhere in the European music of its time . |
| 15 | They are mentioned at the very start , and after that not once until their destruction . |
| 16 | Mehrabad , as previously mentioned , was attacked at the very beginning of the war . |
| 17 | Referring to the customer , he said : ‘ He was committed at the very moment that he put his money into the machine . |
| 18 | This was seen at the very moment of James V 's death . |
| 19 | Restrop was built at the very height of the great Elizabethan age , when the craft of building began to turn into an art . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | The other part was reeling at the very idea of Dane Jacobsen on the snowy slopes of Glenshee with her . |
| 23 | The " Baltic path " to emancipation — the landless variant — was discredited at the very time disagreements over the way forward were at their height . |
| 24 | The decision to have the three executed was taken at the very top by a Cabinet sub-committee . ’ |