Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] at the very [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the popular books at the very outbreak of war captured the mood , Mrs Miniver ( 1939 ) ; an American best seller and subsequently a most successful film , it is said that it hastened America 's entry into the war . |
| 2 | Duncan McKelvie , Director of the Centre , says ‘ The aim of creating this trail is to encourage novice scuba divers to become interested in marine ecology at the very outset of their interests in the sport ’ . |
| 3 | The images of youth arose from a society in which the middle class was reviving its claim to political and cultural leadership at the very time when it was being challenged by the new class politics . |
| 4 | Terence Davies has apparently emerged from the representation of his social origins smelling of Art , and it is this very concept which mainstream criticism just can not get enough of , for at its best ( its most effective ) it denies the social world at the very moment that it represents it . |
| 5 | An interesting feature at the very end of the carboxy terminus is the pair of predicted coiled-coil regions which are virtually identical in all four published sequences . |
| 6 | An additional irony at the very end of this fabliau resides in the claim that Boivin himself " made " this fabliau , and was paid ten sous by the provost for it . |
| 7 | Herrick 's was forty li east of Liu Chang 's , a tiny , crowded place at the very bottom of the City , below the Net . |
| 8 | It is empirical facts of this general kind which justify the fieldworking anthropologist in putting domestic relationships at the very centre of his research interests . |
| 9 | He managed to reduce the variegated and picturesque spectacle of the Middle Ages to the unity of a humoristic concept at the very moment it began to dissolve and crumble . ’ |
| 10 | Such were the small gains to be made from a playing career at the very top . |
| 11 | The light glinted off a white tower at the very summit of the hill , and Riven caught the glitter of metal on the battlements as a helmet or spear blade caught the sun . |
| 12 | The old memories were stuffed back into the dark , locked cupboard at the very back of her mind , where she kept them safely shut away . |
| 13 | If you deliver an effective technique at the very moment that the time-up bell sounds , then your score will be accepted . |
| 14 | The other thing is that these people have a really good handle on the EQ'ing process at the very end . |
| 15 | On this blazing black island at the very tail of the Dragon Spine is the great shrine of Vaul , god of smiths . |
| 16 | Some astronomers have suggested that the energetic activity results from matter accreting onto a black hole at the very centre with a mass as much as several million times that of the Sun . |
| 17 | It is however a magnificent piece — the work of a great polyphonist at the very height of his powers . |
| 18 | To Pelham can go the credit for preventing the Royalists from achieving a major conquest at the very commencement of the civil war , which might have won the war for the king . |
| 19 | I am sure myself that Europe is stronger when Britain , France and Germany are working together , and Britain is paying a full part at the very centre of the European community . |
| 20 | Sandaway stands on a low cliff at the very edge of the ocean with breathtaking sea views . |
| 21 | If it is largely the public-school spirit which has made England great in the past , any means by which a similar spirit may be fostered in the boys who leave the elementary schools at the very age when the sons of the monied classes are entering on the most valuable years of their school career , is of incalculable importance . |
| 22 | A good idea is to attach stickers announcing when the last change was made : otherwise , you can be running a clapped-out tube at the very time it 's most needed . |
| 23 | Such impressive figure-work at the very beginning of the Geometric period is surprising . |
| 24 | The VAT guide ( Notice No 700 ( 1991 edition ) ) para 56 states that these words should be ‘ clearly marked ’ , ie not in small print at the very bottom of the document . |
| 25 | In the schools , French became a compulsory language at the very moment when Arab nationalists were enjoying the linguistic triumph of Arabic over the Turkish of the now broken Ottoman Empire , a victory which had important political implications for the concept of Arab unity . |
| 26 | A more productive starting point is provided by focusing on racism in the mainstream and seeing ‘ race ’ and racism not as fringe questions but as a volatile presence at the very centre of British politics , actively shaping and determining the history not simply of blacks , but of this country as a whole at a crucial stage in its development . |
| 27 | thin voices at the very brink of sense |
| 28 | They all belonged to an influential group of related families at the very centre of urban life in seventeenth and eighteenth century Northampton . |
| 29 | While he believed that football had grown too complex to be a mere ‘ director 's hobby ’ , Chapman set out to foster harmonious relations at the very top , by acting in a spirit of co-operation with his directors , keeping them fully informed of team matters , and taking their suggestions into account . |
| 30 | As many of you noticed , one single letter at the very end of the answers to our August quiz was incorrect . |