Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the [num ord] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also encouraging has been the fact that a row with America over government procurement , which threatened to spill over into tit-for-tat sanctions , was averted at the last minute . |
| 2 | The first was that Stirling had promised his men that they would never be subjected to the indecisions of the Commando days when operation after operation was planned and then cancelled at the last minute . |
| 3 | If one wishes to interview a client , one has to give notice about a week in advance , and sometimes interviews are cancelled at the last minute on the diktat of whoever is running Brixton prison . |
| 4 | On Nov. 29 it was announced that Gorbachev would visit Moldavia on the following day to address the republic 's Supreme Soviet , but the visit was cancelled at the last minute , reportedly because Dnestr Russian and Gagauz deputies had announced that they would boycott the session . |
| 5 | Hearing off : A disciplinary hearing involving a senior education officer who went missing during the summer was cancelled at the last minute yesterday . |
| 6 | A planned visit by the king to Timisoara on Christmas Eve was cancelled at the last minute because of restrictions imposed by the government . |
| 7 | Unfortunately the October meeting had to be cancelled at the last minute through lack of support . |
| 8 | and that er he was er cos er last week there was supposed to be one of these big like rave things on and it was cancelled at the last minute . |
| 9 | But Koch 's vacillating views on his own afterguard line-up , seemingly decided at the last minute with minimal consultation among his senior crew , is bemusing observers . |
| 10 | When the alternative seemed to be squabbles and point-scoring , many of these people decided at the last minute to give John Major the benefit of the doubt . |
| 11 | To add to these impressions of an electorate in a constant state of flux there were other polls showing that many voters only decided at the last minute how to vote . |
| 12 | Instead of flying straight to the United States , the Shah had decided at the last minute to accept an invitation from Anwar Sadat of Egypt to pause briefly in Aswan . |
| 13 | In that case , it was logical to assume that Guy Sterne had decided at the last minute to avail himself of his unexpectedly empty villa for an impromptu break in the sun . |
| 14 | decided at the last minute last night to have the weekend off cos things were going alright . |
| 15 | On pages 14 and 15 , see our lovely salmon and salad menu — it 's very quick to prepare , very light , and for that special touch , the salmon is served with an impressive hollandaise sauce : this is best made at the last minute , but it 's not difficult and well worth the effort . |
| 16 | Examples of these are the Commission 's own proposals to extend privileges for unconvicted prisoners on remand to convicted prisoners awaiting sentence [ which will encourage early guilty pleas ] and the adjustment of legal aid fee scales to encourage more early preparatory work by counsel so that important decisions are not made at the last minute . |
| 17 | Fears of large-scale coastal flooding were averted as the fierce winds shifted at the last minute . |
| 18 | To a young doctor like myself , these were my ‘ valuables ’ — the Zeiss Ikon microscope in the scuffed leather case , its precious lenses protected from dust by silk covers ; the glass-lidded box of stainless-steel instruments — retractors , forceps , hooks , scissors and needles ; my much-thumbed copy of that heavy-going but essential tome , Gray 's Anatomy ; manuals of pharmacology and pharmacy ; Belding 's Textbook of Clinical Parasitology and Strong 's Prevention and Treatment of Tropical Diseases , both of which I 'd bought at the last minute in the hope that the young man in John Bell & Croyden in Wigmore Street was right when he assured me that they provided ‘ the answers to all tropical problems ’ ; and some bound volumes of the British Medical Journal which I had picked up cheap in Charing Cross Road . |
| 19 | Cheryl Wragg , 34 , was airlifted 150 miles for the operation , just weeks after 10-year-old Adele 's appeal , only to be told at the last minute the lungs were unsuitable . |
| 20 | The controversy came to a head this weekend in the annual Town versus Gown match in Oxford , when Jodi Evans was told at the last minute that she could n't play in the men 's game . |
| 21 | Well this is , yeah , although that 's what was all agreed at the last minute . |
| 22 | Nothing was said , but his Lieutenant knew he had been reprieved at the last minute . |
| 23 | EXACTLY a fortnight after his unscheduled South Bank recital debut , when he was invited at the last minute to take over from the indisposed Krystian Zimerman , the young Argentinian pianist Nelson Goerner was back at the Festival Hall to replace the temperamental Martha Argerich in a Mozart concerto with the Philharmonia and conductor Claus Peter Flor . |
| 24 | Peace talks scheduled for March 19 between Azerbaijan and Armenia , in the context of the CIS summit in Kiev [ see p. 38825 ] , were abandoned at the last minute . |
| 25 | The American audiences were kind of small at first and it was a major promotional coup to have survived it all because a lot of dates were pulled at the last minute — promoters could n't get any interest . |
| 26 | as if something vital had been within her grasp , and removed at the last minute … |
| 27 | Hamnett and Rosen became so close so quickly that May 's magazine was scrapped at the last minute in favour of a version reworked by Rosen . |
| 28 | But the project was scrapped at the last minute . |
| 29 | Everything has happened at the last minute , right up against our deadlines , but I am convinced that if we can promote the raffle through the summer magazine it stands every chance of being a great success . |
| 30 | The EC sought co-operation against drug traffickers , and Mexico was reported to have inserted at the last minute a formula to safeguard its national jurisdiction in this area . |