Example sentences of "at [adv] the moment " in BNC.
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1 | Caroline held her breath as they stood in the silence , watching as it began its final plunge , and , at just the moment it painted the world crimson , Nicolo put his hands on her shoulders . |
2 | If you look back to 1974 you 'll discover that our vote lifted at precisely the moment the Tories tried the same game . |
3 | In order to stop this movement , the top of the pendulum must now be moved sharply to the left to counteract it and then smartly back to a point directly above the helicopter at precisely the moment that the movement stops . |
4 | What left-wing historians regret in particular is that the emergence of this new ‘ popular culture ’ came at precisely the moment when conditions were favouring the development of a radical working-class political consciousness . |
5 | The clear lesson of the history of modernism is that the academic left is quite capable of fashioning a central instrument for the reproduction of the interests of the dominant class at precisely the moment when it is making the most strident claims to the contrary . |
6 | It was no accident that medical misogyny , with its powerful definitions of moral and immoral female behaviour , reached a peak at precisely the moment when middle-class women were beginning to challenge the hegemony of the male professions . |
7 | The right hon. Gentleman is aware that a number of European economies either have been in recession or are moving towards recession at precisely the moment when the United Kingdom economy is poised to come out of recession . |