Example sentences of "[adj] moments [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For asymmetric tops , which have three different moments of inertia , there is no symmetry element of order greater than two , and up to three different symmetry species of vibration may give rise to IR bands .
2 To read with understanding the young reader has to appreciate that a page of six pictures of a bear may not be about six bears but about one bear and , reading from left to right , that one bear at six different moments in time .
3 An endless routine ; it creates it own high moments of achievement and satisfaction so as to evade … futility .
4 For Gloucester jockey Peter Scudamore a few moments of solitude and silence .
5 Trains had been laid on to despatch them to all parts of the country , so that for the rest of their lives they would be able to recall a few moments of honour , even glory .
6 I had a few moments of fury , a fury compounded of shame at my own stupidity , the triteness of the situation , the thought of my cottage and supper and the cosy fireside .
7 After a few moments of thought , a child replies , " We collect it from bees . "
8 Given the few moments of contemplation she 'd wanted , it would probably have been her own choice for the evening .
9 She did n't try to fight the tears as her mind played and replayed the whole scene of Eddie 's last few moments of life .
10 Daley 's 66th-minute decider was one of few moments of excitement though , once in front , Villa could easily have sealed their victory with two more goals in the ensuing five minutes .
11 Now and again there were diversions , when one or another of the remaining five would hold the stage and would have a few moments of limelight , or glory .
12 So she 'd be able to have a few moments of peace and quiet in which to interview the woman .
13 This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure .
14 ‘ No , all I 'm asking you for is a few moments of Master Lorimer 's time .
15 Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination .
16 Manville asked , after a few moments of silence .
17 After a few moments of silence there was a series of sharp raps on the door , and a voice called out , asking if anyone was inside .
18 After a few moments of silence he pressed the button of an integral cassette-player beneath the dashboard and she was delighted to hear the opening bars of Mendelssohn 's Third Symphony .
19 It was almost worth all that agony to have these few moments of companionship .
20 After a few moments of pandemonium , Shamir thanked the delegates for their show of confidence , declared the convention closed and walked out of the hall , followed by most of his Cabinet colleagues .
21 This is not to say , however , that in certain applications , the use of ‘ normal ’ in-rack sprinkler systems is not perfectly satisfactory where the arrangement of sprinklers can be such that a number of them can be brought in early against the fire , or where the nature of the goods stored is such that flames are unlikely to damage them within the first few moments of fire development .
22 I spent a few moments in thought .
23 Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact .
24 Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea .
25 A few moments before sundown I extricated Wavebreaker 's folding bicycle from the big locker on the boat 's after swim-platform , forced the rusting hinges open , then pedalled along Midshipman Road to the glittering block of apartments where our esteemed boss lived .
26 Now I might have extra players so that there can be some moments of rest for the players in one of the very long symphonies ; but in Bruckner 's day it was often a matter of re-scoring a passage because you knew that the third horn was not a very good player and that is all you had .
27 After some moments of silence , Loppe spoke without apparent emotion .
28 She gazed at it for some moments in silence , thinking about a flat in Manchester where she and John had spent a ghostly week one winter before they were married .
29 For the most part , however , there is a tendency to examine the texts as autonomous products , isolating them in the process from their political , ideological and historical moments of production and reproduction .
30 Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform .
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