Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will mean more doubtful inward investment at the very moment when this country needs such investment most , as we come out of the recession . |
| 2 | The coins , therefore , should give a good indication of examples in circulation at the very end of the fourth century . |
| 3 | I was paralysed with fear at the very thought of making eye contact with them , let alone playing the teacher . |
| 4 | An additional irony at the very end of this fabliau resides in the claim that Boivin himself " made " this fabliau , and was paid ten sous by the provost for it . |
| 5 | Miranda left the room quickly , so that her mother should not see the redness that covered her face and neck at the very thought of seeing Miles in bed … in pyjamas . |
| 6 | She was the living embodiment of '80s values — the self-made , in-control businesswoman and keep-fit fanatic , heroine of a materialist generation , who ruthlessly and determinedly made herself an icon , flirting , taunting , toying with sexual and religious imagery and playing dangerous games with the madonna/whore complex at the very heart of the feminine psyche . |
| 7 | Completion must be her watchword now , whatever admissions it entailed ; and was not completion at the very heart of the Coniunctio — the central symbol which had proved the stumbling-stone of her work ? |
| 8 | He had apparently had the misfortune to be dumped at the end of this bus-queue at the very moment when cinemas , dance-halls and public-houses were spewing forth their patrons on to the pavements . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Yek who ruled this world lived according to a complex code of law at the very core of which was a presumption which affected every part of their existence — the belief that technological advancement was to a great extent incompatible with the maintenance of civilisation . |
| 11 | it gives him , in fairness , time to think out the answer rather than hearing the question at the very end . |
| 12 | What is most probable is that Ceolwulf resigned the kingship at the very end of 737 and that Eadberht 's accession occurred in early 738 . |
| 13 | Of even greater strategic importance to the review was a condition set down by the Chancellor at the very beginning . |
| 14 | Gales of laughter at the very idea . |
| 15 | It is significant that a popular monarch , making war at the very start of his reign , after a long period of peace , could only raise such inadequate sums . |
| 16 | A good idea is to attach stickers announcing when the last change was made : otherwise , you can be running a clapped-out tube at the very time it 's most needed . |
| 17 | Herrick 's was forty li east of Liu Chang 's , a tiny , crowded place at the very bottom of the City , below the Net . |
| 18 | Well , Tam has asked the question but answered it elsewhere , writing that Crossman 's ‘ sense of his own position in the elite of the nation never deserted him ’ , and that ‘ he seldom if ever had any doubts about his place at the very epicentre of the British Establishment ’ . |
| 19 | And yet we often find that examinations take place at the very time of year when there is most likelihood of a heatwave . |
| 20 | Then you have a bit of the petal free to get hold of right at the very tip . |
| 21 | The principles on which these three kinds of bodies are built are so fundamentally different that it is difficult to believe that they can be related to one another except right at the very roots of the evolutionary tree . |
| 22 | I though Jones did himself a mischief right at the very end . |
| 23 | The rest of the traders , however , again expressed shock/horror at the very idea and were usefully sententious with it . |
| 24 | The three-year appointment is a breakthrough for Brig Ramsey , 49 , who has landed the job at the very moment it is opened up to women . |
| 25 | As Jane Feuer points out , camp involves a kind of sensibility in which ‘ blank mimicry and a critical edge may coexist ’ , and thereby resembles that form of postmodern parody which Linda Hutcheon defines as a ‘ repetition with critical distance that allows ironic signalling of difference at the very heart of similarity ’ . |
| 26 | It included , along with clauses concerned with tolls and mercantile rights , a grant of freedom for the town and all dwellers in it ; the abolition of the judicial duel , unpopular with merchants ; the use of inquest in its place ; and an enlarged competence for the échevins or boni homines , the successors of the Carolingian scabini , re-established in the town at the very beginning of the century . |
| 27 | The other thing is that these people have a really good handle on the EQ'ing process at the very end . |
| 28 | The point at the very heart of anti-insider dealing legislation is the prohibition on the use of valuable information . |
| 29 | Even Father had all but stood to attention at the very mention of the pucca angrez saab . |
| 30 | How was marriage affected by parenthood at the very beginning ? |