Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at the [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to some reports Li 's speech had been revised at the last moment to bring it in line with the current Dengist campaign . |
| 2 | It is important that selection decisions are timed at the right moment in this chain . |
| 3 | Each time they 've been reprieved at the last moment . |
| 4 | It should be harnessed at the very moment . ’ |
| 5 | Quite often operations could be cancelled at the last moment owing to worsening weather conditions , and this must have been a terrible let-down for them , after getting themselves keyed-up for yet another hectic night . |
| 6 | Elections for both the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly had then been scheduled to coincide with the June 1991 general election but were cancelled at the last moment [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 7 | Remarkably , they were saved at the last moment and rebuilt , now forming a group of pleasant dwellings . |
| 8 | It had a very ill-fated start in that some of the original ideas of establishing it as an independent agency with a trading fund were thwarted at the last moment . |
| 9 | ( It was used to make a " gun-shot " by being popped at the right moment , thereby creating the wrong time for the murder . |
| 10 | Their daughter , Georgiana , is a pathetic creature , utterly crushed by the magnificence of her parents ; she falls an easy prey to the Lammles ' schemes to marry her off to Fledgeby , but is saved at the last moment by a change of heart on Mrs Lammle 's part . |
| 11 | In this type of use , to is intercepted at the final moment of the movement it denotes , so that the adjective or main verb evokes not only how the person designated as the support of the infinitive was predisposed towards the realization of the latter 's event , but also his feelings at the time of its occurrence . |
| 12 | Striptease … is based on a contradiction : Woman is desexualised at the very moment when she is stripped naked . |
| 13 | Slowly the picture changes , and doubt is conceived at the first moment when ‘ thank you ’ is superfluous . |
| 14 | The promised job with the chain stores was cancelled at the last moment ‘ due to the Depression ’ , the standard excuse . |
| 15 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 16 | A planned trip by PLO chair Yassir Arafat to Syria in mid-October was cancelled at the last moment . |
| 17 | Charles had planned to take part in a private Mass with the Pope , but was forbidden at the last moment after strong protest to the government from the Church of England hierarchy . |
| 18 | Referring to the customer , he said : ‘ He was committed at the very moment that he put his money into the machine . |
| 19 | This was seen at the very moment of James V 's death . |
| 20 | When we come to Waterloo the Great Duke 's extraordinary ability to be exactly where he was needed at the crucial moment is well described , as are his outward calm and inspiring courage . |
| 21 | A planned NLD rally to mark Martyrs ' Day on July 19 ( commemorating the 1947 assassination of Suu Kyi 's father , Aung San — the country 's independence hero ) was abandoned at the last moment . |
| 22 | A coalition to buy a 51 per cent share of Koch Industries was trumped at the last moment when Charles approached the Marshall family , four per cent stakeholders , with an offer too good to reject . |
| 23 | Amateurism was scrapped at the same moment that the imperial structure it had helped to sustain was itself wound up . |
| 24 | This sense of his irreplaceability was reinforced at the last moment by the dramatic and threatening events of the Cuban Missile Crisis , which began just six days before the French voters went to the polls . |