Example sentences of "the right moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is just because whatever one has planned to do is bound to be altered in the process that it is important to start at the right moment , he wrote . |
| 2 | The right moment to begin , he wrote , is the moment when right and wrong are no longer an issue , it may even be the moment , he wrote , when the realization dawns and is at once accepted that another moment might have been equally valid , and when this no longer matters . |
| 3 | Additional airbrake should be available to make the glider stop floating at the right moment . |
| 4 | But it appeared at precisely the right moment to catch the poststructuralist tide associated with Derrida and the later Barthes , and several of the most influential titles brought together , rather uneasily , poststructuralism and Marxism . |
| 5 | The moths suffered a rousing shaking as the right moment was watched for . |
| 6 | It was just that I happened to ask at the right moment . |
| 7 | ‘ At ordinary times we do not read novels at all , as you may imagine , but the right novel at the right moment can have a real spiritual value . ’ |
| 8 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
| 9 | At precisely the right moment , a heavily-built fellow with a black beard arrived and paced about , staring this way and that as if waiting impatiently for another to arrive . |
| 10 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 11 | He would wait for the right moment . |
| 12 | Mungo admired Emily 's patience as she waited for the right moment to mention his proposition . |
| 13 | He was longing to ask Emily more about Vic , but having put her on the spot , he felt that this was not the right moment . |
| 14 | One comment from Schwerin , cited as typical , stated that ‘ When the Führer speaks , all doubts fall away and one is ashamed of ever doubting whether the right moment for our actions would be exploited . ’ |
| 15 | Carefully she waited until the right moment . |
| 16 | It was a great relief that they would no longer have to scheme some way of getting Anna out , at the right moment , while he himself was touring somewhere . |
| 17 | He is delighted to have run into form at just the right moment , leaving him in his most confident frame of mind since the days leading up to his triumphant 1990 Open at St Andrews . |
| 18 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 19 | Killers are skilled at choosing the right moment , snatching a baby baboon when large baboon males are not looking , chasing monkeys out on to limbs of emergent trees from which there is no escape except a jump — into the hands of other co-operating chimps below . |
| 20 | From the castle he ruled the lake , more as pirate than governor , choosing just the right moment to sell the fortress to the Milanese during the time of the Spanish-French war . |
| 21 | You must master the characteristics of your implements and power sources until you can handle them instinctively in all conditions , and you must keep them well maintained so that they are always ready to be used when the right moment occurs . |
| 22 | It is important that selection decisions are timed at the right moment in this chain . |
| 23 | But when is ‘ the right moment ’ ? |
| 24 | Chapman had kept a close watch on Speirs ' feud with Bradford City , and moved in just at the right moment . |
| 25 | Incidentally the lesson would have been better if there had been more tape recorders in the school and if the tape had been ready at the right moment . |
| 26 | Then at the right moment the two beams of particles could be brought together to collide . |
| 27 | Each pixel must be individually addressed by a voltage to give the right shade at the right moment . |
| 28 | He positively brims with charm , suggesting that , like the proverbial Don , he has the enviable ability to turn it on at just the right moment . |
| 29 | The writer discovered or was introduced to Robinson Crusoe too early , so that it appeared to be a tedious book ; Mervyn Peake 's Gormenghast trilogy appeared a little too late , so that he accepted it with a little less excitement than it deserved ; and Proust 's Remembrance of things past came at the right moment when he had the tenacity for the task . |
| 30 | One of the arts of the parent , the teacher , and the librarian is to ensure that the right book is in the right hands at the right moment . |