Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] [art] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , leaving the graduated scheme out of account for a moment , the position we have reached today is that the state pays to all retired persons , without regard to means , a pension roughly of subsistence value . |
| 2 | 1 Coarsely chop the oysters , then process for a moment with the rest of the ingredients , except the clarified butter , citrus juice and fresh parsley |
| 3 | So , forget for the moment the big tourist attraction : explore your local area . |
| 4 | Her lips felt swollen from his kiss , her body shuddering as she felt his hand , pressed tensely against her spine , hesitate for a moment and then , as if he could not stop himself , slide around caressingly over her slender body and up to the full swell of her breast . |
| 5 | Cadfael shepherded his charge within , and watched him subside gratefully on to the narrow cot , and sit there mute for a moment , laying his burden down beside him with a kind of caressing gentleness . |
| 6 | Though the traditional pillar boxes — oval , round or octagonal — appear at the moment safe , the wall-mounted variety are under threat . |
| 7 | Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland . |
| 8 | So what I 'm proposing is that we write to er Mick and erm Richard , asking what powers and responsibilities that they propose at the moment to devolve to Southwell . |
| 9 | Now , of course , we got problems now where they 've all been abolished and is virtually on a voluntary basis , and I say , it 'll be rather interesting to see whether Lamont actually is going to release some more money , cos you probably realise at the moment they 're cutting back on that particular budget . |
| 10 | Er , yes I agree the funding that we provide at the moment , seventeen thousand I think , er i in in we 've already committed erm for for wh for the coming year , is small but it is because of the example , because er people who wish to m er erm promote cycling schemes and cycling policies within South Cambridgeshire , within the county council can identify the example that we have been setting that hypothecated budget aimed at cycling have been er directed this way and have been spent amicably , constructively , sensibly by cycling working parties . |
| 11 | At Reading road in Shiplake , the A four one five five , there are some temporary traffic lights there holding er the , your journey up this evening , for road realignment work and er there are some delays there as I say at the moment . |
| 12 | The last thing we want at the moment is talk of selling . ’ |
| 13 | Right they 're getting everything they want at the moment because erm er ease the situation . |
| 14 | Next time the phone rings or there is a knock on the door , just pause for a moment instead of reacting immediately . |
| 15 | But pause for a moment . |
| 16 | If we pause for a moment and consider the place of the Neolithic revolution in the theory of human personality and society so far advanced in these pages we will be struck by the fact that the coming of cultivation posed a major threat to the psychological foundations of human society as they had evolved up to that point . |
| 17 | If we just pause for a moment and look at the A C C digest that the papers see . |
| 18 | My patience snapped and I said : ‘ Do shut up and just listen for a moment . ’ |
| 19 | Imagine for a moment that one of the people who is the real driving force behind your business is removed tomorrow . |
| 20 | Imagine for a moment what easy pickings a huge shoal of small bream are to a pack of marauding pike . |
| 21 | Imagine for a moment attempting to describe in detail the difference in shape between a milk bottle and a sherry bottle , or the taste of cod as against haddock , or the design of some wallpaper . |
| 22 | But never imagine for a moment that she has abandoned a lifetime of hard-won apostasy and now rejoices in the mating rituals of her long-lost tribe . |
| 23 | Imagine for the moment that expectations of inflation are zero and so the relevant Phillips curve for the moment is the one labelled . |
| 24 | If your book has photographs , diagrams or graphs , stop for a moment when you come to them , close your eyes and try to visualise them . |
| 25 | When you are getting on really well with someone , stop for a moment and notice if your body language is like that of your friend . |
| 26 | I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house . |
| 27 | I focus for a moment on one arch carved into the Redwall limestone . |
| 28 | Raise your right knee up I straight in front of you , hold for a moment , then lower . |
| 29 | It 's not much protection from wind at this slower speed , but you can unnerve the man in front of you , wait for a moment of weakness and spring past . |
| 30 | ‘ Hold on a moment , ’ said Enid , ‘ I think we 'd better get Miss Hardbroom . |