Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It has come at the eleventh hour . |
| 3 | Also encouraging has been the fact that a row with America over government procurement , which threatened to spill over into tit-for-tat sanctions , was averted at the last minute . |
| 4 | She sipped the wine , picked at the first course and let James Hamilton carry the conversation . |
| 5 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 6 | A HUGE open-air concert has been cancelled at the last minutes over cash wrangles . |
| 7 | The first was that Stirling had promised his men that they would never be subjected to the indecisions of the Commando days when operation after operation was planned and then cancelled at the last minute . |
| 8 | If one wishes to interview a client , one has to give notice about a week in advance , and sometimes interviews are cancelled at the last minute on the diktat of whoever is running Brixton prison . |
| 9 | On Nov. 29 it was announced that Gorbachev would visit Moldavia on the following day to address the republic 's Supreme Soviet , but the visit was cancelled at the last minute , reportedly because Dnestr Russian and Gagauz deputies had announced that they would boycott the session . |
| 10 | Hearing off : A disciplinary hearing involving a senior education officer who went missing during the summer was cancelled at the last minute yesterday . |
| 11 | A planned visit by the king to Timisoara on Christmas Eve was cancelled at the last minute because of restrictions imposed by the government . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the October meeting had to be cancelled at the last minute through lack of support . |
| 13 | and that er he was er cos er last week there was supposed to be one of these big like rave things on and it was cancelled at the last minute . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The promised job with the chain stores was cancelled at the last moment ‘ due to the Depression ’ , the standard excuse . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ] . |
| 18 | A planned trip by PLO chair Yassir Arafat to Syria in mid-October was cancelled at the last moment . |
| 19 | Could it be that the people of this country are storing up champagne to celebrate the wondrous event of the Tories ' being smashed at the next election ? |
| 20 | Comments will be considered at the next meeting which is on 10 December . |
| 21 | The 1905 Convention was considered at the Sixth Session of the Conference in 1924 when a Protocol was agreed permitting accession by States not represented in 1905 and some further work was set in hand which led to the publication in 1929 of a proposed revised Convention . |
| 22 | In addition , data presented at the second world congress of stroke in Washington , DC , last September showed efficacy of ganglioside treatment in acute stroke in two separate large multicentre studies . |
| 23 | On Jan. 3 eight opposition groups threatened to withdraw from the talks unless a complete report were presented at the next session on the disbanding of the security police and the disarming of former security officers . |
| 24 | In Mark and Luke , the betrayer is not named at the Last Supper itself . |
| 25 | The problem for the hon. Member for Dartford is that , once he has been defeated at the next election , he will be replaced as a candidate by the hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) . |
| 26 | In Victoria the opinion polls suggested that the ALP would be defeated at the next election . |
| 27 | But Koch 's vacillating views on his own afterguard line-up , seemingly decided at the last minute with minimal consultation among his senior crew , is bemusing observers . |
| 28 | When the alternative seemed to be squabbles and point-scoring , many of these people decided at the last minute to give John Major the benefit of the doubt . |
| 29 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |
| 30 | Instead of flying straight to the United States , the Shah had decided at the last minute to accept an invitation from Anwar Sadat of Egypt to pause briefly in Aswan . |