Example sentences of "at the very [noun pl] [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 | There is an argument that treason is a more serious offence , since it strikes at the very foundations of the State and its social organizations , but treason is so rare that it is surely permissible to treat homicide as the most serious form of crime . |
| 3 | I have no doubt that , in the light of developments , the Government and our Community partners will be looking at the very matters to which my hon. Friend has drawn attention . |
| 4 | Whatever else may be done to improve public respect for law and order and a love of the truth , it is utterly vital that the sowing of the seeds of conscience be started in the young at the very beginnings of their lives . |
| 5 | The relationship struck at the very roots of their human dignity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |
| 8 | An anomaly will be regarded as particularly serious if it is seen as striking at the very fundamentals of a paradigm and yet persistently resists attempts by the members of the normal scientific community to remove it . |
| 9 | It strikes at the very fundamentals of a free press , by placing a cost barrier on access to information . |
| 10 | At the very extremes of this process , it means moving from a cursory skimming of a book in order to establish its relevance to your needs , and its scholarly stature , to a detailed appraisal of an historian 's interpretation of a particular point . |