Example sentences of "very [det] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond them lies that very mysterious region , the centre of the Galaxy , about which we know very little at the moment . |
| 2 | The BBC said : ‘ Vic and Bob 's inimitable brand of humour is very much at the cutting edge of contemporary comedy and I am delighted to welcome two such original talents to BBC 2 . ’ |
| 3 | Her view that we should encourage schools to take up tennis is one that is very much at the heart of our philosophy . |
| 4 | This approach was very much at the heart of Labour 's 1983 election manifesto . |
| 5 | Concerns with the ‘ public ’ and the ‘ private ’ are very much at the heart of Anita Ronke 's sculpture/installation work . |
| 6 | Better maintenance of the border is a central factor in our policy and it is very much at the heart of the arrangements and agreement that we have with the Irish Government . |
| 7 | While the bishops were very much at the heart of Innocent 's system of church government there were papal expedients that Innocent used quite extensively that minimized their power . |
| 8 | But as I said in a speech recently , we have a lot further to go , more progress to make and that is very much at the top of my agenda of , the agenda of my right honourable friend the education minister . |
| 9 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 10 | With such a small group we are very much at the mercy of the various other events in people 's lives and all of us have distractions over the summer . |
| 11 | Moreover if these covenants were given full force , they would tend to reduce his freedom to seek better conditions even by asking for a rise in wages ; because if he is not allowed to get work elsewhere he is very much at the mercy of his employer . |
| 12 | Below that level , colleagues , thirdly , and you may be less interested in this , erm , but the , because this is very much at the level of , of officers , at least from the statutory bodies . |
| 13 | In the fourteenth century Prague was very much at the centre of European affairs . |
| 14 | The ‘ Plan for Coal ’ of 1974 , very much at the centre of the case put forward by the NUM , was intended to produce over 40 million tonnes of new and modernised capacity to meet the expected increase in demand and to offset the exhaustion of old capacity . |
| 15 | Though irreconcilable , these differences are none the less very much at the centre of philosophy 's concern with the possibilities or ‘ knowing ’ . |
| 16 | Very much at the centre of it is the CPSU CC 's Department for Liaison with Communist and Workers ' Parties of Socialist Countries , founded in 1957 , and headed by Yuriy Andropov from that date until his appointment to head the KGB in 1967 . |
| 17 | You feel very much at the centre of things , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Some schools and education authorities had established strong links with the business sector but others were very much at the starting post . |
| 19 | In so far as the Interludium is amusing , up to this point and beyond it , the humour is very much at the expense of the clerk . |
| 20 | This is painted just before the war , and it 's interesting to compare it with a painting by the court painter , William Dobson who worked in Oxford during the war , his studio was just around the corner in the High Street , because that 's Rupert very much at the end when things were going badly wrong for him , erm and it 's unfinished , perhaps because Dobson was beginning to run out of paint , and the experts at allow , and I think just that face tells the whole story about tension and unhappiness , Dobson 's an interesting painter , one of the first English painters who sort of get to the top in this way , and he painted a lot of the cavaliers at Charles ' court , erm this is Sir John Byron who clattered down the main street at St Aldate 's , before the king even arrived before the Battle of Edgehill , the one that caused trouble for John Smith , erm and he was very much a swash-buckling character , but he did n't spend a lot of time in Oxford later , but he was there enough to have his portrait painted . |
| 21 | er I think , I know he 's not around very much at the moment because he 's supposed to be on sabbatical but , you know , erm do |