Example sentences of "[noun] is at the very [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Spelling is at the very heart of information technology but , so far in IT Year , it has been largely ignored .
2 Review by Keith Thompson LIKE it or loathe it , Victorian Music Hall is at the very root of modern British mainstream comedy .
3 Data integration is especially a problem for geographers because information synthesis is at the very heart of the discipline .
4 The difference is at the very heart of the plot .
5 Christians would claim that this parable is at the very heart of the meaning of prayer .
6 It is because this garret is at the very heart of Government .
7 Like Benno Moiseiwitsch , Cortot confessed to a special affection for Schumann , whose music is at the very heart of romanticism .
8 And freedom is at the very heart of the idea that is America .
9 This principle is at the very heart of all the recommendations relating to drama within the English curriculum that are put forward in this chapter .
10 But this balance of opposites is at the very heart of the High Elves ' concepts of rulership — being ruled by a single all-powerful dictator would be unthinkable to them .
11 Energy is at the very heart of the longest of these pieces , the Commonwealth Christmas Overture , which brings a riotous conclusion to the disc .
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