Example sentences of "a moment of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Universe would therefore have an infinite extent in all four dimensions of spacetime ; it would always have existed , rather than having a moment of birth . |
| 2 | As Frodo feels the pressure of the Eye on Amon Hen , a Voice speaks to him and gives him a moment of freedom to act . |
| 3 | Her morning descent to the kitchen was for her a moment of happiness and importance . |
| 4 | One letter in January finds him apologising to Theo for composing his previous letter in ‘ a moment of spleen ’ . |
| 5 | At this point the poet ‘ takes off ’ and in a moment of vision tells us that Man 's ‘ greatness ’ is derived from early childhood experiences — provided that we have contributed something from ourselves to the bare impressions . |
| 6 | There is a sense of being pleased by the presence of this quality , ‘ … a moment of intoxication ’ , almost similar to getting intoxicated with the smell of flowers ( Ingarden , 1973 , p. 186 ) . |
| 7 | He hesitated , feeling a moment of disquiet . |
| 8 | In a moment of disquiet worthy of a de Chirico , the setting sun has pushed the shadow of the car half way to the horizon . |
| 9 | Watching his total absorption in the service and the way in which he hung upon the holy words , Owen could not help feeling a moment of doubt . |
| 10 | Swinton 's only response before the interval was a penalty goal by full-back Wilkinson , but Kennett took advantage of a moment of inspiration to add a try in the second half . |
| 11 | In a moment of inspiration , she found something else : ‘ I shall never forget my utter amazement when the truth dawned on me that the outline of a lion was drawn by the curves of the Cary river , below the old capital town of Somerset ’ . |
| 12 | As a male student once pointed out to me in a moment of inspiration , it does n't make sense to say both that women 's talk is trivial and that it is ‘ deep ’ compared to men 's . |
| 13 | The habit was invented by a single two-year-old female called ‘ Imo ’ , who , in a moment of inspiration , had thought of washing the potatoes . |
| 14 | I had the impression that they had reached a moment of reflection in some important exchange . |
| 15 | The stages of the journey are so many acts of self-questioning and self definition : its end a moment of self-recognition which is , however , also a reversal of the narrator 's image , as in a mirror ( Roux the pursuer is identified with Xavier the pursued , the first and last letters of their names are switched , Xavier is now Mr Nightingale , or rouxinol in Portuguese ) . |
| 16 | She almost hisses , and Xanthe and Miranda understand this word because one of Miranda 's special treasures , which she keeps in her treasure drawer under lock and key , but has shown Xanthe in a moment of love , is a figure of Jesus on the cross which glows greeny-white under the bedclothes if you 've shone a torch on it beforehand and saturated it with light . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Like this it is at once a moment of knowledge ( " to understand reality is to see and understand things in their connectedness and their interpretation , one to the other " ) and moment of praxis ( synthesis ) whose material embodiment is the process of modelling ( forming : here both in terms of cognitive modelling , including the modeling of meaning and the extension of this modelling , with all its reciprocal interactions ) . |
| 19 | Clare 's polite words gave her a moment of hope , which died , however , when she saw his face . |
| 20 | Allowing herself a moment of pity , Theodora gazed down at the vulnerable sleeping figure . |
| 21 | But Mr Zogby of the Arab-American Institute believes that the war in the Gulf , far from setting the cause back , may be a moment of opportunity : ‘ The United States ’ , he says , ‘ now knows that it will need to build bridges to the Middle East . |
| 22 | Amiss had a moment of sympathy for the old beast . |
| 23 | The guard posted at the entrance to their quarters is a man she does not know well ; Ariel registers this discrepancy , wonders about it , thinks of Jack Elsey with a moment of affection . |
| 24 | But in a moment of anxiety , a kind smile can be just as lasting . |
| 25 | Think back to some crisis ( a moment of shock or time of stress or failure ) . |
| 26 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 27 | A BRILLIANT student who killed herself after just one week at university may have acted in ‘ a moment of despair , ’ an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ It may have been simply a moment of despair and nothing more than that . |
| 29 | Once , in a moment of despair , he snapped his Bible shut and squashed them to a paste . |
| 30 | It was a moment of despair . |