Example sentences of "at the very [adj -est] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An appropriate set of product communications needs to be sent out at the very earliest opportunity and more expensive , albeit more responsive media , such as a telephone , should be brought into effect . |
| 2 | Dressed in a dark , immaculate evening suit and a crisp white shirt , worn with a bow-tie that had been , by the looks of it , impatiently pulled apart at the very earliest opportunity . |
| 3 | Because we had evidence that memories of the exercise tended to fade quickly , it was decided to exclude schools which had submitted reports at the very earliest stage ( autumn 1980 to summer 1981 ) , and schools which were not due to submit reports until the last stage of the first cycle ( autumn 1985 to early 1986 ) were also excluded because they could not be expected to have made much of a start on the process . |
| 4 | There was , of course , first and absolutely foremost , the need to keep on jumping , and to do so at the very highest level ; a need which Fräulein Silber emphasised repeatedly . |
| 5 | I 'd like to manage at the very highest level and pit my wits against the best . |
| 6 | Gareth Jenkins possessed one of the outstanding talents of his Seventies ' generation but injury prevented it demonstration at the very highest level and it is as a Scarlet , the epitome of Llanelli as player and coach , that he has always been seen and highly regarded . |
| 7 | But , as Gordon said at the time , ‘ to maintain my challenge for a place on the national side and even to take part meaningfully in the national squad training , it is necessary to train and play club football at the very highest level ’ . |
| 8 | When I queried the decision I was told that it had been taken at the very highest level , as a result of information not available to me . ’ |
| 9 | Critics , however , said that he had ‘ blown it ’ and that his loss on time — unusual among top players — had exposed his inexperience at the very highest level . |
| 10 | It has been discussed at the very highest level . ’ |
| 11 | The Sun 's publisher Rupert Murdoch was reported to have ordered an apology in what was described by assistant editor Chris Davis as a ‘ handsome and gracious ’ gesture after discussions ‘ at the very highest level ’ . |
| 12 | At the very lowest level , a wheel fully twelve feet across was spun by a pair of mountainous Turkish wrestlers in tiny loincloths , while a bent and crippled croupier , Mischa Auer , shrieked numbers at the losers . |
| 13 | This team came into being to fulfil a need in the Society for a means of showing our work at the very best level ; a group of performers who practise regularly together and have the facility to form up in teams of varying number according to the need at the time . |
| 14 | However , if one takes the women from others of his novels , they seem mostly to be devoted wives and mothers or grieving widows , or at the very worst spinster sister house-keepers . |
| 15 | You 've got the landlords who are the en the enemies , you , you 've got rich peasants who are broadly gon na be opposed to you and , and will only come in on your side at the very latest stage when they 've realized that and then you 've got the middle peasants who are wavering in the middle but will probably support you mu certainly much more easily . |
| 16 | At the very simplest level , a disk cache keeps the most frequently used parts of a disk 's information in RAM . |