Example sentences of "at that moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that moment they are living in a monothematic world limited to one thought : to attain the goal they are fighting for . |
| 2 | Absolute total recall — it was Portia 's famous ‘ The quality of mercy is not strained ’ from The Merchant of Venice — and mercy was what I was asking for , literally , at that moment . |
| 3 | But to arrive at that moment , he wrote , it is necessary to be patient , it is necessary to hold back , it is often necessary to do nothing . |
| 4 | At that moment , emerging from the saloon below as if propelled from a circus cannon , there appeared a distinctly grotesque figure . |
| 5 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 6 | Although , at that moment I could have done with a little less myself . |
| 7 | Also — and I 'm quite prepared to admit this — because of all the problems I was having trying to find work , just at that moment I really did n't want the bother of hunting for a new home . |
| 8 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 9 | This is always dangerous because at that moment the glider has insufficient speed to allow for safe recovery and landing . |
| 10 | Opening the airbrakes at that moment will prevent the glider leaving the ground again . |
| 11 | If you stall accidentally it is almost always because you are not aware of the low speed , etc. and therefore all the training in the world will not prevent you from responding instinctively because you are not at that moment aware that you are stalled . |
| 12 | Many inexperienced pilots do not even consider what the situation is going to be and only think about what is happening at that moment . |
| 13 | But at that moment he woke up . |
| 14 | At that moment the terms of the truce between the Downing Street neighbours will be conveniently forgotten . |
| 15 | At that moment the politics of the world was exciting . |
| 16 | The faculty of divinity at that moment was dominated by a hard intelligence , Professor Bethune-Baker , known to all behind his back as the Bath Bun . |
| 17 | In all these ways the place was perfectly suited to what Ramsey needed at that moment . |
| 18 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 19 | He also took the trouble to buy and read a new book of theology which Ramsey at that moment published ; an account of the development of English religious thought from the late Victorian age to the age of William Temple — From Gore to Temple . |
| 20 | Yet he is not to die : at the very last moment the image jumps slightly and then we note Custer 's singular absence at the centre of the famous circle , which at that moment begins to break up . |
| 21 | At that moment Rachel heard the electronic siren of a fire engine . |
| 22 | They collapsed into each other 's arms and at that moment a group of callow youths stomped past , bigger than the girls and ferocious looking . |
| 23 | Oil , that most precious of natural resources , the stuff which makes the wheels of industry turn , was at that moment being set ablaze to pollute the skies or pumped into the Gulf to pollute the seas . |
| 24 | At that moment the men detailed as River Watchers radioed that a fast-moving vessel was coming downstream , and the Safety Officer , not at all sure of the newcomer 's identity or intentions , fired an illuminating parachute flare over the nearly complete bridge to warn of the obstruction across its bows . |
| 25 | Just at that moment a man staggered out of the door of the bank ; when he saw the tableau of police and soldiers in front of him , he threw his arms up in the air . |
| 26 | He really was , at that moment , one for whom there were ‘ two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings , myself and my Creator ’ , as Newman described his own experience . |
| 27 | And there are scenes of great moral effectiveness , as when Ransom , plucking up his courage far the struggle with Weston , recalls that ‘ at that moment , far away on earth … men were at war , and white-faced subalterns and freckled corporals who had but lately begun to shave , stood in horrible gaps or crawled forward in deadly darkness , awakening like him to the preposterous truth that all really depended on their actions . ’ |
| 28 | Britain , the alleged home of ‘ not one of us ’ , seemed to be wearing a halo to Jane at that moment . |
| 29 | And at that moment their feeling for each other made all previous connections irrelevant . |
| 30 | ‘ I was n't like me at that moment . |