Example sentences of "be at [det] moment " in BNC.
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1 | I decided not to go in there on the grounds that Tommy would not , and Tommy off duty in Tommy 's off-duty clothes was what I most definitely wanted to be at that moment . |
2 | Given leave to speak , he said he had gone into the church to help , and had simply obeyed such orders as were given to him , and he knew nothing of where the saint 's coffin might be at this moment . |
3 | We were pleased when the news was good and depressed when it was bad , but first things came first and I suppose we all felt we were doing our bit and that our personal lives were at that moment of secondary importance . |
4 | For their part Fleischmann and Pons took along one of their palladium cells ( but one that never produced heat — their heat producers were at that moment fully occupied in gathering data ) . |
5 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
6 | It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master . |
7 | Both young men then glanced at each other , clamming up in some embarrassment as they recalled that the fortune they were at this moment vying for had been lost by Benedict Beckenham , for the story of the will was naturally common knowledge among his intimates . |
8 | Lord Jesus Christ , you have promised perfect liberty to those who trust you ; we cry to you for those who are at this moment enslaved by their need to take drugs . |
9 | For instance the first two letters of this chapter , ‘ It ’ , are at this moment sitting in RAM locations 6446 and 6447 of my computer , which has 65,536 RAM locations altogether . |
10 | Indeed the settlement where we are at this moment , is to be expanded very considerably . |
11 | It may well have been at this moment , in the autumn of 1419 , that Henry V decided that the crown of France , which none of his predecessors had achieved , might be his . |
12 | Furthermore , an individual is at each moment only a partial manifestation of an identity revealed over time , what physicists call a ‘ sum over histories ’ . |
13 | It is at that moment that Jesus comes , not as a ghost but as himself , to save them and take away their fear . |
14 | It is at that moment celebrity golfers disappear . |
15 | Gardiner usefully quotes or paraphrases the lively testimony of many sitters and visitors from a wide variety of sources and it is at these moments that the artist at his most affectionate , considerate , perceptive and even gently self-deprecating comes to life . |
16 | Well , the DTI is at this moment considering giving money to keep Huerter , one of his main rivals , going . |
17 | His secretary , Shirley , smirks from behind her desk , self-righteous at being at her post before the boss , even though she is at this moment inspecting her face in a compact mirror . |
18 | ‘ Lizzy is at this moment in Grantley police station on a charge of possession of cannabis . ’ |
19 | It is at this moment that the question arises — is the victim who sustains the harm someone the defendant is under a duty not to harm ? |
20 | I appeal to the Minister : the man should not be allowed to return to his unit ; he should remain where he is at this moment . |
21 | Above all , the conducteur is prominent ; he is not telling the band to stop , since Duport is at this moment ‘ dancing lightly around the hero laid low . ’ |
22 | No no I we 're not saying that at all , that 's a different proposition entirely er certainly the County Council is at this moment in time committed to an outer northern relief road , I do n't think there 's any question of that . |
23 | A bill is at this moment passing through Parliament which will enable the Milk Marketing Board to change from a statutory monopoly into a milk-buying co-operative , similar to those that already exist on the Continent , to be called Milk Marque . |
24 | I was surprised , as I always was at such moments , how slim and small she felt . |
25 | Oil , that most precious of natural resources , the stuff which makes the wheels of industry turn , was at that moment being set ablaze to pollute the skies or pumped into the Gulf to pollute the seas . |
26 | It is possible this is a case of hindsight colouring my memory , but I have a distinct feeling that it was at that moment I first sensed something odd , something duplicitous perhaps , about this apparently charming American gentleman . |
27 | I felt wonderful , and it was at that moment that I realised that if I started taking my athletics seriously , if I started training properly , if I started listening to Ron , then maybe I could do something in the sport . |
28 | It was at that moment that she had resolved to tell Nick Morley everything that had happened to her . |
29 | Filmer was at that moment with the Lorrimores . |
30 | It was at that moment that he ventured to propose to her . |