Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is wearing some beads now , hidden for the moment under her clothes . ) |
| 2 | Where the skin stretched taut along his cheekbones it held a faint flush of colour after the day out , the disfiguring bitterness in the blue eyes hidden for the moment behind closed , black-fringed lids . |
| 3 | Traditionally , the answer has been found in the study of the two main factors which were at issue in the years leading up to what is regarded as the moment of outbreak of war , the confiscation of the duchy of Aquitaine by King Philip VI of France in May 1337 . |
| 4 | With justice the treaty of Brétigny is often regarded as the moment at which , for the first time , both sides decided to call a halt and have their willingness to do so formally recognised in a treaty , one of the most important of the whole war . |
| 5 | In the history of the Vietnamese communist movement , as Duiker says , the Eighth Plenum is traditionally regarded as the moment when nationalism and a rural strategy of people 's war became identified as the two pillars of Vietnamese revolutionary doctrine . |
| 6 | And that 's called erm er a special word which I 've forgotten for the moment . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been excused for the moment . |
| 8 | The poetry above was no mere dream to be forgotten after the moment of its conception ( or the requirements of an appointment , as some have claimed ! ) . |
| 9 | Therese , so uncurious , so immersed in the moment , set it off . |
| 10 | But the seeds of destruction were contained in the moment of triumph . |
| 11 | Only for the sickening leap in the throat , the feeling of being frozen in the moment of falling . |
| 12 | Consider the wonderfully natural portrait of Lady Holland ( 1766 ) , caught in the moment of looking up from her book . |
| 13 | Went I 'm caught in the moment . |
| 14 | Some series are designed from the moment of conception to have primarily melodic potential , their contours suggesting a good melodic flow . |
| 15 | Then everything was forgotten except the moment . |
| 16 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 17 | However , as it was impossible to know whether it was blow one or blow ten ( the maximum number permitted at the moment ) which drew the blood on Roy 's Dream , it did serve to underline that though the Jockey Club may be moving in the right direction , its pace of reform is still too slow , leaving it too open to criticism . |
| 18 | Although the Unix International/OSF wars seem to have abated at the moment , ‘ there is always an excuse for them to rip each others hearts out , leaving Bill Gates to have the market , ’ says Rothstein . |
| 19 | Oh well we 're fairly heavily committed at the moment but erm well I suppose we could go up to a budget of about forty pounds a month . |
| 20 | erm The more recent developments in erm women 's fiction , feminist fiction , erm the lead has come there certainly from America so that not only do you have leading erm women novelists but you have leading women black novelists and black women novelists and this erm of course may very well come , and I hope it does , in this country , but it has n't come at the moment . |
| 21 | Yeah you 're getting you 're you 're getting saturated at the moment you 've |
| 22 | If you are being bullied at the moment you will know how completely hurtful and upsetting it can be . |
| 23 | ‘ The situation is therefore very clouded at the moment and funeral directors should treat claims of big VAT refunds with caution . |
| 24 | Well it automatically comes on you see it it 's all frozen at the moment it will probably shoot out itself I did try it once to try and pull it out but , I think |
| 25 | Nothing else mattered at the moment except the fact that I wanted to be a follower of Jesus Christ — whoever He was . |
| 26 | It is of no consequence once it is accepted that the God to serve humanity originated at the moment that life first became manifest , and combined with the material of the universe to start the long process of producing living creatures with the capacity to enjoy life and all that that involves . |
| 27 | We ha we have to look at the environmental consequences , you stick a barrage that size across erm a large er river system you 've got to ask what happens upstream erm and of course Bristol for example is a port , how to get the ships in and out is another problem but er these are being considered at the moment and there 's quite a lot of mo money going into , into studies but no commitment yet as to actually , to actually build it . |
| 28 | And in order to get in to that state of mind one does not have to be a complete lifelong fanatic , one only has to be completely absorbed for the moment by a particular cause , and that kind of absorption is of course something which good causes often do seem to demand . |
| 29 | Problems with the software have prevented for the moment the implementation of an automated indexing system . |
| 30 | While preparing an early draft of the present chapter , the writer heard Bishop Cathal Daly of Down and Connor , a leading moderate among the bishops , respected by all except PIRA , repeat the adage that the Irish constitution was secular , implying that there really was little to be done for the moment . |