Example sentences of "at [art] very moment [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you deliver an effective technique at the very moment that the time-up bell sounds , then your score will be accepted . |
| 2 | At the moment of Boy 's arrival , at the very moment that he was standing there framed in our doorway , hesitating ( which makes such a good entrance , though Boy was n't doing it deliberately ) , at that same time on that same first evening there was a terrible attack on one of the men from The Bar . |
| 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 | This is the heart of the notion of the inner city ; at the very moment that policy draws the boundaries of the inner city a place takes on the qualities of coherence that it does not possess , embodies all the contradictions that are part of the original concept . |
| 5 | The rise of this logical positivism reinforced the Enlightenment belief in science and rationality ( at the very moment that the world was in desperate need of a moral code and a spiritual light to help it through the great crisis — the Depression — of the old machine 's apparent demise ) . |
| 6 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 7 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 8 | My father who was not conversant with your rituals , was judged by you to be common ; but you consider me to be your equal at the very moment that I am in a position to look down upon my father who was common , and to be ashamed of my grandfather who was working-class . |
| 9 | On 4 August , at the very moment that an important battle was raging near Somosierra north of Madrid , Nizan reported a conversation that he had had with President Azana which had left an indelible impression in his mind : The President pointed to the smoke rising from the distant peaks of the sierra . |
| 10 | At the very moment that he resigned , he remarked bitterly : " The events in Poland are an unacceptable implementation of realpolitik . " |
| 11 | At the very moment that the weak and young and old were brought from the Sprinkleroom to the railway station , as good as new , so their menfolk completed the appointed term of labour service and ventured forth to claim them , on the ramp , a trifle dishevelled to be sure , but strong and sleek from their regime of hard work and strict diet . |
| 12 | Referring to the customer , he said : ‘ He was committed at the very moment that he put his money into the machine . |
| 13 | In Africa the medical faculties at Harare , Makerere , and Western Cape are recent converts to problem-based medical education , and it is ironic that the advice of Moi University faculty staff is being widely sought outside Kenya at the very moment that their own programme is under attack from within the country . |
| 14 | The scene was in a shower room being used simultaneously by the policemen in the film — at the very moment that Woman Constable Joan Sims entered by mistake . |
| 15 | AT THE very moment that even members of the UDM are admitting ( belatedly ) Arthur Scargill was correct all along , Frank Morris ( October 20th ) berates him for the ‘ vicious attack he unleashed upon innocents during the Heath administration ’ . |