Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the very [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Herrick 's was forty li east of Liu Chang 's , a tiny , crowded place at the very bottom of the City , below the Net . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Such were the small gains to be made from a playing career at the very top . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If you deliver an effective technique at the very moment that the time-up bell sounds , then your score will be accepted . |
| 12 | The other thing is that these people have a really good handle on the EQ'ing process at the very end . |
| 13 | On this blazing black island at the very tail of the Dragon Spine is the great shrine of Vaul , god of smiths . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is however a magnificent piece — the work of a great polyphonist at the very height of his powers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sandaway stands on a low cliff at the very edge of the ocean with breathtaking sea views . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Such impressive figure-work at the very beginning of the Geometric period is surprising . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As many of you noticed , one single letter at the very end of the answers to our August quiz was incorrect . |
| 25 | The underwater shape at the very back of the board . |
| 26 | There is thus , for Schleiermacher , an inherently religious awareness at the very core of our own existence as human beings : it is both inherent in ourselves , and inherently bound up with the reality of God . |
| 27 | Even without previous knowledge or the sight of a cover or title , people often have to process new information at the very beginning of a discourse , though this is often mediated by a kind of meaningless dummy , like ‘ there was ’ in the given slot at the beginning : Given New There was a man called Ernest Hemingway . |
| 28 | The overriding problem is that unlike most criminal acts where one knows clearly that one has committed a crime , one can often only know one has published obscene or indecent material at the very end of a prosecution . |
| 29 | It may be that the simplest change in the theory , given awkward observations , would be a general structural change at the very centre rather than a whole series of alterations further out . |
| 30 | It will mean more doubtful inward investment at the very moment when this country needs such investment most , as we come out of the recession . |