Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the very [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frequency of political discussions rose sharply between the pre-campaign week and the final campaign , but then it continued to rise steadily throughout the campaign to peak at the very end . |
| 2 | But why stop to wonder at the very point where cause for wonder really begins ? |
| 3 | To start at the very beginning , as Pamela Hine did , the game or sport of halma was part of the ancient Greek pentathlon . |
| 4 | The fifth feature is the development of so-called ‘ parallel networks ’ , which cross-cut the formal or official organization of the state , and cause a concentration of powers to accumulate at the very top of the executive . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She looked at Mairi , who happened to glance over and catch her eye ; and the woman howled and started to moan at the very sight of the wee lass . |
| 8 | He had begun to tremble at the very thought . |
| 9 | The biographer is absolutely right to say at the very beginning that Quisling is not at all difficult to understand . |
| 10 | They , you see to , they used to have a , they used to camp at the very top of the hill up there . |
| 11 | She seemed to shudder at the very thought . |
| 12 | This seems to strike at the very heart of many of the cases which are made against firms of accountants . |