Example sentences of "and at the very [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But the scales down Fenna 's tail grew gradually smaller and smaller , the darker shades of his back and the paler shades of his underside blending together , and at the very tip , small as a child 's thumb , they were minute and a shade that , when she tried to match it to paint sample cards was usually called eau de nil . |
2 | And at the very bottom of the table Naburn hospital , twenty point eight nine hectares . |
3 | So in my view design is absolutely fundamental and at the very core of most businesses . |
4 | It is not simply a general or universal awareness of God , though it gathers up and refines the more general consciousness to be found in other religions and at the very core of human existence as such . |
5 | And at the very back , the small , patient figure of Phil Aldrich , seeking ( of this , Ashenden could have little doubt ) to avoid the embarrassment of refusing to sign Janet Roscoe 's latest petition . |
6 | And at the very end of the decade , after this chapter had been written , Provincial announced that such was the cost of retaining ageing DMUs that in 1990 some services would be temporarily reduced until more Sprinters come on stream . |
7 | Yet another element was added to the civilization of Palermo ; and at the very end of our period , in the late 1140s , King Roger II , greatest of the Norman rulers of south Italy and Sicily , created the monument which above all others links us to his world , the royal chapel , the Capella Palatina , Norman Romanesque in architecture , Byzantine in its mosaics , Islamic in its strange and fascinating ceiling . |
8 | I wo n't go into too much detail — I remember Glenda Jackson talking about a theatre review she 'd read where every single member of the cast was listed — and at the very end it said : ‘ And Miss Yvonne Smith made a very good prompt … . ’ |
9 | The pattern of duality is broken , significantly , in two places : at the very beginning , in the poignantly simple opening sentence ; and at the very end , where there is the unexpected addition of a third , and longer member to the parallelism of how clauses : and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea " . |