Example sentences of "[noun prp] at the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Gaetano Salvemitu used to maintain that Mussolini ended in disaster because he always said Ja to Hitler at the wrong moment . |