Example sentences of "[prep] the last moment [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the Acts of Parliament ( Commencement ) Act 1793 , an Act comes into force on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent unless otherwise provided , with effect from the last moment of the previous day . |
| 2 | As an added deterrent , this species usually waits until the last moment for the final clamping-down movement . |
| 3 | He intends to wait until the last moment before making the vital decision on taxes . |
| 4 | I believe in taking action on fact and not fantasy , but I think it was Lord Zuckerman who was the scientific advisor to the government , who said that government has never taken preventive measures that would prove to be unjustified , and if you always wait to the last moment before being convinced to do anything , that 's often a moment too late . |
| 5 | Sorting went on day and night for a fortnight , and indeed beyond , for books kept on coming till the last moment of the sale . |
| 6 | Begin what seems to be a front kick , then change it at the last moment into a high roundhouse kick . |
| 7 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 8 | You can minimise disappointment by calling the airline ( toll-free ) to check availability , and by being ready to switch at the last moment to a different , less popular destination . |
| 9 | Four weeks of near stasis in voters ' attitudes apparently gave way at the last moment to a near avalanche . |
| 10 | She was about to shake her head , but changed it at the last moment to a nod . |
| 11 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 12 | International javelin thrower Nigel Bevan had to withdraw from the championships at the last moment with a foot injury sustained in training at the end of last week . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One idea is to place a cereal like cornflakes round it and then add milk at the last moment before producing it . |
| 15 | The point should also be made that practitioners facing potential limitation problems in claims valued at less than £50,000 can no longer employ the expedient of issuing a writ at the last moment before the limitation period expires . |
| 16 | He was almost on the point of signing before his better judgement saved him at the last moment from the emetic flower-child rompings of this 1972 Paramount flop . |
| 17 | He took no stand , but resigned at the last moment from the Lloyd George Cabinet so as to be ingratiatingly available to continue as Foreign Secretary in the new Government . |
| 18 | It 's like that wire-mesh barrier thing — the one he told me about — the one that stops boats at the last moment from going over the weir . |
| 19 | The publication in April of Poems on Various Subjects , its preface written at the last moment in Cottle 's bookshop , was a genuine cause for satisfaction and received enthusiastic reviews . |
| 20 | Delegations from Algeria and Yemen travelled to Moscow but withdrew at the last moment in solidarity with the Palestinian delegation . |
| 21 | 19ff ) ; one of the earliest attested acts of faith centred upon the near sacrifice of a human being ( Isaac , son of Abraham ) , replaced at the last moment by a substitute ram which was given as a burnt-offering ( Gen. 22 ) ; and the first redemption of the embryonic nation Israel involved the smearing of the blood of the Passover lamb on the doorposts and lintels of the Hebrews ' homes in Egypt as a sign to the Angel of Death to leave them in safety ( Exod. |
| 22 | Content that all was finally settled , Coleridge was unprepared when his West Country plans were threatened by one further difficulty , raised at the last moment by Tom Poole himself . |
| 23 | Their daughter , Georgiana , is a pathetic creature , utterly crushed by the magnificence of her parents ; she falls an easy prey to the Lammles ' schemes to marry her off to Fledgeby , but is saved at the last moment by a change of heart on Mrs Lammle 's part . |
| 24 | Along with these measures went the catch-all clause , introduced at the last moment by the Liberal MP Henry Labouchère outlawing all forms of male homosexual contact . |
| 25 | The Czech , beaten at the last moment by the Australian , is congratulated on coming second and replies , ‘ But I did n't win . ’ |
| 26 | This sense of his irreplaceability was reinforced at the last moment by the dramatic and threatening events of the Cuban Missile Crisis , which began just six days before the French voters went to the polls . |