Example sentences of "at [art] [adj] moment [conj] " in BNC.

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1 erm I think it 's really encouraged by the fact that the erm gipsy sites which one sees around the County at the present moment because there is very little control over them , are most unsightly and do considerable damage to the countryside , and people do not wish this to happen in their own area .
2 The Icicle Works do n't appear to be particularly active at the present moment and Ian McNabb was recently to be spotted playing a solo gig at Camden 's Underground Club .
3 Erm we are in the current process of reviewing our own or altering our own structure plan , the first alter alteration is going through consultation at the present moment and we 're estimating a need within that period of of actually fifteen thousand which is marginally above the regional planning guidance .
4 There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w
5 We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week .
6 Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident .
7 In football , rugby , or cricket the ability to stop the frame at the crucial moment or play-back a sequence , which has come recently with the development of video , has actually placed the viewer and the commentator in a better position to make a decision than the unfortunate referee or umpire .
8 Nor , said Thomas Gisborne in 1795 , must he himself disdain to borrow money at the appropriate moment if he is not to put his credit to real and serious hazard .
9 If such a risk is accepted , sooner or later the cable will break at the wrong moment and an accident will occur .
10 But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late .
11 He can do this by pressing push switch S4 ( the Batting switch ) at the precise moment that the ball reaches the ‘ bat ’ position ( l.e.d .
12 We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes .
13 If the helicopter is moving , to stop it you must apply an opposite control movement and then remove it at the precise moment that the helicopter stops .
14 If you deliver an effective technique at the very moment that the time-up bell sounds , then your score will be accepted .
15 At the moment of Boy 's arrival , at the very moment that he was standing there framed in our doorway , hesitating ( which makes such a good entrance , though Boy was n't doing it deliberately ) , at that same time on that same first evening there was a terrible attack on one of the men from The Bar .
16 Terence Davies has apparently emerged from the representation of his social origins smelling of Art , and it is this very concept which mainstream criticism just can not get enough of , for at its best ( its most effective ) it denies the social world at the very moment that it represents it .
17 This is the heart of the notion of the inner city ; at the very moment that policy draws the boundaries of the inner city a place takes on the qualities of coherence that it does not possess , embodies all the contradictions that are part of the original concept .
18 The rise of this logical positivism reinforced the Enlightenment belief in science and rationality ( at the very moment that the world was in desperate need of a moral code and a spiritual light to help it through the great crisis — the Depression — of the old machine 's apparent demise ) .
19 But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him .
20 The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out .
21 My father who was not conversant with your rituals , was judged by you to be common ; but you consider me to be your equal at the very moment that I am in a position to look down upon my father who was common , and to be ashamed of my grandfather who was working-class .
22 On 4 August , at the very moment that an important battle was raging near Somosierra north of Madrid , Nizan reported a conversation that he had had with President Azana which had left an indelible impression in his mind : The President pointed to the smoke rising from the distant peaks of the sierra .
23 At the very moment that he resigned , he remarked bitterly : " The events in Poland are an unacceptable implementation of realpolitik . "
24 At the very moment that the weak and young and old were brought from the Sprinkleroom to the railway station , as good as new , so their menfolk completed the appointed term of labour service and ventured forth to claim them , on the ramp , a trifle dishevelled to be sure , but strong and sleek from their regime of hard work and strict diet .
25 Referring to the customer , he said : ‘ He was committed at the very moment that he put his money into the machine .
26 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 .
27 The scene was in a shower room being used simultaneously by the policemen in the film — at the very moment that Woman Constable Joan Sims entered by mistake .
28 AT THE very moment that even members of the UDM are admitting ( belatedly ) Arthur Scargill was correct all along , Frank Morris ( October 20th ) berates him for the ‘ vicious attack he unleashed upon innocents during the Heath administration ’ .
29 This one leapt on me at the exact moment that Junior unloosened his arms and thrust himself into his father 's crying : ‘ Daddy , Daddy , I like this nice man .
30 At the exact moment that he hit the grass the strain came on the rope .
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