Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't score because United 's gallant John Pemberton got under his feet at the critical moments like a wad of chewing gum . |
| 2 | Mr Patrick McIntyre , a South London publican and former New Scotland Yard detective who wrote a regular crime column for the South London Chronicle , was another who cast doubt on the Hooligan panic , accusing newspapers of being in their ‘ silly season ’ and of taking the matter up merely ‘ as a suitable and sensational means of filling their columns at the present moment ’ . |
| 3 | UBI A girl who lifts her skirts at the very moment you wish she would |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Up to 10,000 armed Palestinians live in Sidon and the surrounding hills , and the PLO is bound to be accused by its enemies of involvement in the kidnappings at the very moment when President Mubarak of Egypt is trying to involve PLO supporters in peace talks with Israel . |
| 6 | It is a paradox that the more Ministers learn about the complex and uncertain causes and circumstances of crime , the less dogmatic they become in their opinions at the very moment when , as Whitelaw found to his cost , they are most vulnerable to censure by their own supporters . |
| 7 | In both the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents , the operators misread the reactor 's condition and shut off the emergency systems at the wrong moment . |