Example sentences of "just at the moment [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a strong case for saving Thoresby for the nation , but unfortunately its future came into question just at the moment when all thoughts were focused on Brodsworth , near Doncaster , another Victorian house with an even more complete set of contents . |
| 2 | The subsequent courts of sewers were steadily reinforced by successive legislation , culminating in 1532 in Henry VIII 's Statute of Sewers , just at the moment when the power of the monastic lords of the levels was broken by the Reformation . |
| 3 | Obviously , the content of a shot has a bearing on its length ; ideally , it should end just at the moment when the viewer has absorbed all the information in the scene , and is beginning to wonder what happens next ? |
| 4 | Most radical opinion was outraged by the fact that Britain should be reversing its traditional hostility to Russia just at the moment when defeat by the Japanese in 1904–5 , and the revolutionary upheavals which followed , had rocked the foundations of Tsarist tyranny . |
| 5 | Just at the moment when France 's Jacobin revolutionary tradition reached its lowest ebb , the British Left discovered the radical possibilities of patriotism . |
| 6 | Just at the moment when the establishment figures on both sides of the Atlantic were talking about substantial cuts in military spending , when the role of the hawkish political leaders was being eclipsed , when the United States seemed to be floating away from its international role , and new self-confident Europe seemed to be on the verge of creation , Iraq invaded Kuwait . |
| 7 | But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them . |
| 8 | ‘ What do you think you 're doing McAllister ? ’ asked Dr Neil as she walked towards him , just at the moment when the girl began to moan and thrash about , her pains suddenly returning in full force . |
| 9 | Both suggestions caused right-wing critics of the US administration to claim that Baker had made unnecessary concessions ; Richard Perle , former Assistant Defence Secretary under President Reagan , commented that " we are strong , and just at the moment when we are strong , we are making concessions " , and he warned : " Any American official making concessions to the Soviets today has to explain himself . " |
| 10 | Then , just at the moment when the full sacrilege of what happened is described , there is a change of tone as Rolle initiates the seventh rhyme scheme chiming with ryng , and refocuses the actions of hideous brutality as the means by which the voluntary ring-dance of love is patterned . |
| 11 | Thus , just at the moment when the Battle of Verdun was about to enter its grimmest phase , the one man on the German side who could have put an end to the butchery was impotent to do so . |
| 12 | Lead acid batteries are just at the moment very heavy compared with petrol , but there are many alternative types of battery being researched . |