Example sentences of "[ex0] [be] a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite often , there 's a moment of truth — the realisation that there 's no way you can actually make all the minimum payments on your credit cards Then , the secret is to seek out the reason for your burning desire to go barmy in Benetton , or wherever your compulsion manifests itself . |
| 2 | There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more … |
| 3 | There 's a moment before the traffic and travel news now for me to remind you that erm if you 're the chairman or the secretary or whatever it happens to be of a particular group whether it be erm the local amateur dramatics society or er a North Yorkshire charity and you 'd like the opportunity to have some prime time publicity for what you 're doing , particularly in the run-up to the Christmas period |
| 4 | There 's a moment when you decide to find someone . |
| 5 | There is a moment here when Fred Pearson 's Shotover ( looking like a raffish , siren-suited version of Shaw himself ) says of his daughter , Lady Utterword , that she is afraid that she has no heart to break : at which point Jennie Stoller 's stately , voluptuous Ariadne throws himself at his feet with a wrenching poignancy . |
| 6 | There is a moment of confusion while one elder fumbles to put his cakestand of individual cups back on the tier . |
| 7 | Schools tend to abandon reading guidance too soon , on the assumption that there is a moment when most pupils can read . |
| 8 | There is a moment when an idea is born , the clash of a flint . |
| 9 | There is a moment of high comedy , almost , in Hastings ' comments at the council scene when Richard has gone out with Buckingham ( to plot Hastings ' death , as it happens ) , that As Hasting soon realizes , he has been ‘ too fond ’ ( or foolish ) to penetrate Richard 's deceit ( III.iv.80 ) . |
| 10 | Equally we might accept the temporal regress caused by supposing that for each moment in time there is a moment that precedes it , or the causal regress derived from the propositions that every event has a separate cause and that every cause is an event . |
| 11 | There is a moment of slow motion in which I have time to register the force of the water rushing over my body , my toes slipping out of the footcups , the paddle flying out of my hands . |
| 12 | For example , in the Bartók piece quoted above there is a moment of rest at mid-point , on the finals of the two modes ( D and 4 ) . |
| 13 | Maybe there is a moment when Dumbo drops his guard , but I ca n't see him . |
| 14 | There was a moment 's pause . |
| 15 | There was a moment 's stunned silence then , ‘ My word , ’ said Frau Nordern . |
| 16 | There was a moment 's silence and , as Omi murmured a prayer for Steinmark , Frau Nordern looked around at her family and felt her throat tighten . |
| 17 | There was a moment 's silence while Jackie took his turn . |
| 18 | The tap in the kitchen was turned off and there was a moment 's silence . |
| 19 | There was a moment of stunned silence . |
| 20 | There was a moment in the shooting of Easy Rider that typified Hopper 's abilities . |
| 21 | There was a moment 's silence . |
| 22 | There was a moment of slight awkwardness as Mr Lewis glanced around the table . |
| 23 | There was a moment 's hesitation before attention turned to the shoes I was wearing . |
| 24 | There was a moment of drama though when this big pike started thrashing about in the net . |
| 25 | There was a moment of silence , and then the old lady , her tone returning to normal , looked at Grace as she said , ‘ Now , Grace , when the meal is over and there 's all this tosh about the ladies rising so the men can enjoy their port and cigars , here 's one who is staying behind because I 'm dying for a cigarette . |
| 26 | There was a moment 's pause . |
| 27 | There was a moment when Nicholas could have released his arrow : he let it pass . |
| 28 | Within Ibn Fayoud 's racked , confused person , there was a moment of conflict . |
| 29 | There was a moment of absolute stillness . |
| 30 | There was a moment 's silence and then she went on , ‘ I 've always blamed myself . |