Example sentences of "at the very centre " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very impurity which the radical humanist seeks to transcend , only despairingly to rediscover at the very centre of his or her being — this impurity , for the fantasies of transgressive reinscription , is not the ground of its failure but the material upon which it works . |
| 2 | In February 1965 , the new Labour Postmaster General , Tony Benn , asked the chairman of the BBC , Lord Normanbrook ( ‘ a stupid man … at the very centre of the Establishment ’ Benn thought ) , and the Director-General , Sir Hugh Greene , why the BBC would not provide a radio service to satisfy the demand being fed by dilapidated old rust-buckets moored in the North Sea blasting rock music to the mainland day and night . |
| 3 | Indeed it had and the Nonconformist minister stood at the very centre of the Nonconformist world we are discussing . |
| 4 | At the very centre of the ‘ precinct ’ ( pedestrianised in the 1960s ) , the architects have let rip with yards of steel rails , attached to posts and festooned with lights , encircling a ‘ performance area ’ . |
| 5 | Just north of Bordeaux , at the very centre of the wine-making country , the team time trial takes place on the roads around the ancient citadel-town of Libourne . |
| 6 | Storey and Allen suggest that the faint central member of the triplet is different : it is the star cluster at the very centre of the Galaxy . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It is curious that thinkers should explore the logic of rational conduct without coming to terms with this phenomenon at the very centre of their own experience . |
| 9 | The insects are out and about for the same reason as us , moving at night to beat the midday heat at the very centre of the Grand Canyon . |
| 10 | At the very centre of the sphere is its source : a magical Blackshard ( see New Magic ) . |
| 11 | The clay tablets of the Knossos temple archive record such large quantities of produce that it seems as if the temple was at the very centre of the organization of the Minoan economy . |
| 12 | Some astronomers have suggested that the energetic activity results from matter accreting onto a black hole at the very centre with a mass as much as several million times that of the Sun . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the City Council has behaved in what can only be described as a lax , sluggish and offhand manner towards one of the few private initiatives at the very centre of Dutch cultural life . |
| 14 | At the very centre of this whole divinely-dictated religion was the ark . |
| 15 | I believe if this is indeed a statement about the christian ideal of marriage , then we should put worship at the very centre of it . |
| 16 | It may be that the simplest change in the theory , given awkward observations , would be a general structural change at the very centre rather than a whole series of alterations further out . |
| 17 | A more productive starting point is provided by focusing on racism in the mainstream and seeing ‘ race ’ and racism not as fringe questions but as a volatile presence at the very centre of British politics , actively shaping and determining the history not simply of blacks , but of this country as a whole at a crucial stage in its development . |
| 18 | At the very centre of that great sunken circle , like a vast yet slender needle perched on its tip , was the control tower . |
| 19 | From having been at the very centre of public affairs , the Frost family sank back into almost impenetrable obscurity . |
| 20 | As for magic , which readers of Frazer 's The Golden Bough might suppose to lie at the very centre of the anthropologist 's interests , I can only say that , after a lifetime 's career as a professional anthropologist , I have almost reached the conclusion that the word has no meaning whatever . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ You are at the very centre of operations , Mr Woodbrain . ’ |
| 23 | They all belonged to an influential group of related families at the very centre of urban life in seventeenth and eighteenth century Northampton . |
| 24 | " 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 " . |
| 25 | Like it is n't you know that the Eucharist , er the the the communion is very central to our worship and having had ten years working at the Navy that was an eye opener and deepening of my own spiritual awareness in the , as in the sanctity that I got , the sacrament and how other churches see it and er helped to create a very affirm , at the very centre of my own if you like , pilgrimage . |
| 26 | I am sure myself that Europe is stronger when Britain , France and Germany are working together , and Britain is paying a full part at the very centre of the European community . |