Example sentences of "[vb -s] at [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last thing that the country needs at this moment are the sort of enormous tax increases being advocated covertly by the Opposition — the tax increases implied by their sky-scraping public spending plans . |
| 2 | John Butcher says at this moment a man on bail for rape is on the run ine the Midlands . |
| 3 | It postulates that the actual rate of inflation which prevails at any moment in time may be decomposed into two constituent parts : ( a ) an expectational component , measured by the variable , ( b ) an excess demand component , measured , as in the Phillips-Lipsey model , by the magnitude of f(U) . |
| 4 | Now Michael White and John Gribbin have given us Stephen Hawking : a Life in Science , or rather Mr White has given us the life and Mr Gribbin the science ; the latter is awash with black holes , white dwarfs , protons , pulsars , quasars and quarks and is therefore no more comprehensible than Brief History ; also , what is one to make of a writer who speaks at one moment of ‘ tiny black holes ’ and the next of ‘ black holes which could eat solar systems for breakfast ’ ? |
| 5 | And the show threatens at any moment to turn ugly . |
| 6 | Although pain is the dominant feeling she experiences at that moment , it is a pain that simultaneously makes her angry with the male , and she swipes out at him . |