Example sentences of "[noun prp] at [art] [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nerves were edgy as both players dropped their service games to remain neck and neck at 5–5 , but it was Powell who was able to break Curtis at the crucial moment to regain the lead . |
| 2 | Before flying to the conclusion that certain things are ‘ against the rules ’ ( heaven save us , procedures are already erected into RULES ! ) let the neophyte consider that a man can not be in New York and Pekin at the same moment . |
| 3 | In France , a conspiracy of Calvinists and ‘ political ’ Huguenots against the Guises , which ended with the ‘ Tumult of Amboise ’ in mid March with its hideous reprisals , left the Guises victorious , but it deflected their attention away from Scotland at a critical moment . |
| 4 | Ecstasy in downtown Johannesburg at the very moment crowds outside the supreme court heard that Yanoush Valus and Clive Derby-Lewis , two men driven by cold political fanaticism to assassinate Chris Harney , had themselves been sentenced to death . |
| 5 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 6 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 7 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 8 | He prepares to do so , and only when it is clear that he will obey the divine command does God at the last moment spare his son and tell him to kill a sheep instead . |
| 9 | Mr Chairman I feel a bit like an aircraft that 's to come down to Leeds er er Bradford Airport rather than Teeside at the present moment . |
| 10 | ‘ Look here ! ’ exclaimed Peter at the same moment . |
| 11 | Economic difficulties are foreclosing on Mr Lawson at an awkward moment for the Government . |
| 12 | I first saw Salamanca at a certain moment of dusk when the setting sun still casts a deep red glow over the city 's rosy stone . |
| 13 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 14 | The appearance of History and Class Consciousness at the height of the Modernist movement suggests the degree to which history was being totalized by Lukács at the very moment when the process of detotalization had already begun — even in the aporetic possibilities of his own writings . |
| 15 | In Africa the medical faculties at Harare , Makerere , and Western Cape are recent converts to problem-based medical education , and it is ironic that the advice of Moi University faculty staff is being widely sought outside Kenya at the very moment that their own programme is under attack from within the country . |
| 16 | Gaetano Salvemitu used to maintain that Mussolini ended in disaster because he always said Ja to Hitler at the wrong moment . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's an attempt to unsettle Marseille at an important moment in their history . ’ |
| 18 | Modern scholars , conscious of the large issues involved in this struggle , have generally found this intrusion of the local and material interests of the church of Canterbury at a critical moment incomprehensible , and having their eyes fixed on the historically more important matters of investiture and homage , they have supposed that Anselm 's eyes must also have been similarly directed . |