Example sentences of "at [art] very [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ So , we are really talking , I believe , about developing democracy and accountability and power for people at the very grassroots of the community ’ . |
2 | The wee man is a shining example to all pros , played at the very top for all his career , and has a very sound tactical brain . |
3 | Even at the very top of the market there are amazing bargains . |
4 | Mr Smith said : ‘ However well intentioned the reform may have been and however well it may work in schools sufficiently funded for it to work , the fact is too many of its side-effects are visible , malign and damaging and John Patten must have at the very top of his agenda an urgent review . ’ |
5 | At the very top of the hill is a natural outcrop known as the Banbury Stone . |
6 | TRÉPAIL : A white chalky-marl is exposed at the very top of the slopes . |
7 | Three men stood , tiny , at the very top of the geometrical iron web , leaning their arms on its highest horizontal bar . |
8 | Lee felt a little puffed ; the apartment was at the very top of a tall riverside block without a lift . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | At the very top of the market , Reylon 's Woolsack bed has pocket springs upholstered purely with lambswool for extra luxury and softness . |
11 | In addition , there is still considerable social closure and self-recruitment at the very top of the occupational structure . |
12 | At the very top of the hierarchy , elite recruitment shows the most social closure . |
13 | At the very top of the structure , at the point of the cone , a space had been left open to let in the light . |
14 | General Nocenzi had offered his office for the young Prince 's use , and it was there , at the very top of the vast , three-hundred-level fortress , that he planned to meet the boy . |
15 | The people at the very top of MI6 insisted Nowak stayed in place . ’ |
16 | But of course they were quoting at the very top of Leamington 's rate , and since then it 's gone right down . |
17 | ( ‘ Crucify , crucify ! ’ ) that is articulated at the very top of the treble register and brings the work to its climax — an unforgettable piece of composition unequalled anywhere in the European music of its time . |
18 | They , you see to , they used to have a , they used to camp at the very top of the hill up there . |
19 | In ritual status they were at the very top of the system and ranked higher even than the kings . |
20 | ‘ Right at the very top of the heap . |
21 | For instance what do the colours at the very top of the page mean ? |
22 | ‘ The château 's at the very top of the hill , ’ she wailed to herself . |
23 | The dead cetaceans , predators at the very top of the maritime food chain , would have picked up the toxins from shellfish and smaller animals which accumulate pollutants , Lenghaus said . |
24 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
25 | Sacrifices must start at the very top with those who can most afford them . |
26 | The decision to have the three executed was taken at the very top by a Cabinet sub-committee . ’ |
27 | ‘ That must have taken some delicate handling , to get a man at the very top in that secret society . ’ |
28 | His poetry tells a different story : there was wide and profound sentience — of man and nature , of beauty and the beast , of times and seasons , of perception and tactility , of hearing and tasting , and smelling ; at the bottom of which remains an unresolved questing , a whole gamut of unanswered questions which drove at the very heart of what he most wished to believe . |
29 | But with stunning clarity they demonstrate again how the great reformer has unleashed forces which he and his country no longer control , and which now are playing on the German Question itself , the issue which lies at the very heart of today 's European order . |
30 | Instead ‘ failure ’ is something endlessly repeated and relived moment by moment throughout our individual histories … . feminism 's affinity with psychoanalysis rests above all , I would argue , with this recognition that there is a resistance to identity at the very heart of psychic life . |