Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's that moment which , when we trace the expansion backwards , will have occurred between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago , but we ca n't say what , if anything , may have happened before that , whether the universe bounced out into another state of expansion , so we have a sort of a cut off in our ability to retrodict , or extrapolate backwards into the past . |
| 2 | But it is that moment , the moment before she turns , that stays with me . |
| 3 | It was one moment of delight in the general hurly-burly but , with only three minutes left , there was another moment of controversy . |
| 4 | It was that moment when the owl was still calling and the day birds began to sing . |
| 5 | It was this moment that she had come for . |
| 6 | But it was another moment , another gift from life , to put with the others . |