Example sentences of "only at the very [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you co up again if you can co I 'm going back to The reason being that the approach to the business was one of quality and a large amount of hand-finishing , and , the leathers were aimed mainly at the , saddlery and leather goods trade and also only at the very top end of the shoe trade . |
| 2 | A similar state of affairs had existed only at the very dawn of coinage when , in a number of areas including Asia Minor or Athens , a variety of personal designs had appeared , perhaps implying that for a short time after its inception coinage was sometimes produced on the authority of prominent individuals rather than of the state . |
| 3 | Grandparents who moved in only at the very end of their lives , just for a few last months , rarely left much of a mark unless earlier contact had been important . |
| 4 | ( I , 817 — 18 ) Sartre arrives at what he calls ‘ the real problem of History ’ , that is how there can be totalization without a totalizer , only at the very end of Volume I. It is not until the next volume , however , that he intends to show how individual actions , separate multiplicities , make up ‘ one human history , with one truth and one intelligibility ’ ( I , 69 ) . |
| 5 | Greek by nationality , he was born and spent most of his life in Russia , returning to the land of his ancestors only at the very end of his days , where he shortly thereafter died . |
| 6 | In fact , it was largely through the middle-class and scientific bias of the new provincial colleges that English Language , Literature , and History came to serve as a so-called " poor man 's classics " , and it was only at the very end of the century that Oxbridge became sufficiently concerned to begin to succumb to the then " national demand " for such studies and introduce new " Schools " and " Tripos " regulations that would allow the ancient institutions to take a lead in these new areas . |
| 7 | He was a writer of the fidgety , costive kind whose works are long in the planning , and meticulous in the execution — only at the very end of a project , when the scaffolding , the foundations , the walls and roof and even the plaster were laid down , did spontaneity and delight take over , in the actual play of , play with , words themselves . |
| 8 | The moment when it enters his or her head , that X was the one who did it , can thus be concealed and brought out only at the very end of the story . |
| 9 | Those engaged in classifying creatures in museums worked anyway with dead ones ; it was only at the very end of the nineteenth century that the collecting of dead animals and dead birds gave way to the careful observation of living ones , using binoculars . |
| 10 | ‘ If you look at something like raising a purchase order , what it tends to involve is combining bits of paper from different departments and only at the very end is a computer entry made — which is not a massive improvement on all-paper systems , ’ said . |