Example sentences of "was at the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to stay where I was at the moment until things quietened down . |
| 2 | Now , it was responding to what de Gaulle had called the solemn pact which was at the moment being sealed ‘ in the suffering of all and the blood of the soldiers ’ between France and the peoples of the Indochinese Union and to his belief that ‘ not for a single hour did France lose the hope and the will to recover free Indo-China ’ . |
| 3 | It had thrown up some very challenging cross-references in its time , and she was at the moment pursuing a connection between the nature of quattrocento pigmentation and lichenology as a method of dating the antiquity of landscape : a gratifyingly pointless and therefore pure pursuit , which enabled her mind to wander in the direction of Italy and to hover about the abstraction of a particular shade of green-blue which she had noted in many a painted Italian scene as well as in the lichens of ancient English woodland . |
| 4 | I think that I must assume the existence of some person in the defendants ' employment who accepted and appropriated the money with a full knowledge of all the facts , particularly the discussion which had preceded the institution of the action , and the pending of the action itself , who knew and realised that the right of the defendants to receive the money was at the moment sub judice , and indeed on the point of coming before this court for decision . |
| 5 | His patient , a girl whose age was uncertain — he judged her to be about fourteen or fifteen — was at the moment quiescent , her face as grey as the linen on which she lay , her eyes closed . |