Example sentences of "at [adv] [art] 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 | Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) . |
| 3 | If you look back to 1974 you 'll discover that our vote lifted at precisely the moment the Tories tried the same game . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A certain self-reflexiveness even finds its way into otherwise realistic novels , such as Anthony Burgess 's Earthly Powers , as if no contemporary novel could quite be complete without at least a moment of creative hesitation and self-examination . |
| 10 | Jess went out , closing the door , determined to get at least a moment of privacy . |
| 11 | The latter two groups are used in such a way that , vertically , there are semitonal conflicts at almost every moment . |