Example sentences of "at [adv] [det] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | At exactly that moment Nigel , at the other end of the room , jumped to his feet and started pointing excitedly at the blackboard and screaming , ‘ The chalk ! |
| 2 | Shouting was necessary , for it happened that a high-speed train was rushing by at just that moment on a main line to the east coast . |
| 3 | It was at just that moment the bells began . |
| 4 | Only Athenian citizens could profit by allotments of land as ‘ cleruchs ’ ( literally , ‘ allotment-holders ’ ) and it may be more than chance that the qualifications for Athenian citizenship are more closely defined at just this moment ( 451 ) : citizen descent was now required on both sides ( Ath . |
| 5 | Probably more than design ( verb ; lowercase " d " ) in the sense that we understand at the moment ; paradoxically , not only does design become the only possible means of saving the human species ( and I mean this very seriously ; I can think of no other approach which could enable us to transcend the dichotomies — between reason and emotion , technique and meaning , power of technical systems against impotence of ethical systems , and so on — built into our dominant culture ) but it " finds itself " at just this moment ; at this point the contradictions that run through present forms of design practice , contradictions which we can now read as the " distortions " of the holistic and embracing matrix of design , cease to exist . |
| 6 | It was as though he 'd known she 'd appear at precisely that moment with precisely that eager expression on her face . |
| 7 | It so happened , entirely by coincidence , that Coghill lent Lewis a copy of Williams 's novel The Place of the Lion at precisely this moment . |
| 8 | But more striking still is his ability to make the voice switch from aria to narration , at almost any moment , in such a way that we hardly notice it , because the orchestra takes over the melody from the singer . |