Example sentences of "[coord] at the [adj] moment " in BNC.

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1 He will need help , of course , other agents or what have you and at the appropriate moment you arrest the lot . ’
2 Two of these they spotted as the German pilots began diving onto the Hurricanes tails , and at the right moment Westmacott carried out a hard climbing turn , coming out behind one of the Messerschmitts as it began to pull up .
3 You would then run your latest game and at the right moment press the hot keys , it will then save the screen out to a PCX file for you to load into your paint package .
4 I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help .
5 Although the rapid decline of the church courts into virtual desuetude over the eighteenth century removed the only institutional form of church control over the moral behaviour of the lower orders , they could hardly be unaware of the continuing power of the parson operating both through the vestry and through areas of personal control such as that over charity and at the vital moments of baptism , marriage and burial .
6 But besides ability , the other essential element in political success is luck ; and at the precise moment of ultimate achievement , her luck deserted her , and the hollowness of the victory was revealed .
7 Roebuck positioned and braced himself and at the precise moment drove his shoulder into Shelford 's midriff , stopped him instantaneously , before driving him into the Onewa Domain turf .
8 But at the final moment , with a succession of lovers and of mirrors , vision distorted : I was presented with only a fractured picture of myself .
9 These were duly assembled , exercised and put in readiness by the Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Armed Forces , Marshal I. I. Yakubovskiy , but at the decisive moment transferred to a forward command post of the Soviet High Command in Legnica , Poland , under the C.-in-C. of the Soviet Ground Forces , Army General I. G. Pavlovskiy .
10 But at the crucial moment , Burton had bucked the system .
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