Example sentences of "at the [adj] moment [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | We just hit at the right moment and from that week onwards , at least 90 people turned up every week . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If such a risk is accepted , sooner or later the cable will break at the wrong moment and an accident will occur . |
| 8 | But his mind had clouded over again at the wrong moment and now it was too late . |
| 9 | And Harriet Shakespeare , stumbling over the rough ground towards them , raised her voice at the same moment and yelled , ‘ Tug darling , it 's all right . |
| 10 | Sure enough , they dropped their sticks at the same moment and ran across to the downriver side of the bridge to watch for the winner . |
| 11 | Far off , at St Ignatius Loyola College in County Galway , a similar commemoration had been timed to start at the same moment and also to end at ten minutes past nine . |
| 12 | The train whistle blew at the same moment and her scream was drowned in it . |
| 13 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 14 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 15 | Remarkably , they were saved at the last moment and rebuilt , now forming a group of pleasant dwellings . |
| 16 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 17 | In this way , should you be unable to attend at the last moment and he has to sit twiddling his thumbs in his consulting room because it is too late to give the appointment to anyone else , he is recompensed for the wasted time . |
| 18 | Every sentence begins ‘ The whole point is this , ’ proceeds doggedly towards the target , then veers off at the last moment and explodes harmlessly in the undergrowth . |
| 19 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 20 | He was never remotely stumped when an item went down at the last moment and the presenter was left with a minute to fill . |
| 21 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 22 | His trousers bunch round his ankles again , then catch round his boots and disappear over the edge of the chimney , kicking up at the last moment and hitting the grating ; the branch slips and the grating slams down . |
| 23 | And then there was the blue velvet pelisse to go over the dress , with its white fur lining and deep fur hem , and a glorious white fur muff on which that clever Miss Adeane had stitched , at the last moment and quite behind Miss Baker 's back , a truly enormous blue velvet bow . |
| 24 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 25 | It ran straight , veered at the last moment and dropped . |
| 26 | His personal score stood at seven which made him an ace and then came that morning of ferocious winds and driving snow when he 'd come in at four hundred feet , flying blind , lost his engine at the last moment and crash-landed . |