Example sentences of "moment [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Said Smith : ‘ At the moment chaos reigns . |
| 2 | It 's cos he 's working for him at the moment money . |
| 3 | By Malcolm Gluck YOU CAN date your descent ( or , if you prefer , ascent ) into louche living from the moment champagne ceases to be merely sparkling wine of uniform effervescence and taste and becomes individual bottles of wine to be judged against others of like manufacture . |
| 4 | But I think Dawn must have known about her allergy , because the moment Mum came into the room to see her , Dawn made a point of trying to sit on her breasts . |
| 5 | She went the whole way now : ‘ He 'll pull the switch for the first television transmission to Danu , and that will also be the moment Danu is absorbed into the republic as the fifty-eighth province . |
| 6 | Her claim to the throne was shattered the moment Premier John Major read out Buckingham Palace 's statement that she and Charles are to separate . |
| 7 | How can I forget all 4′ 11″ of him who would run across the office and at the last moment hop , skip and jump and land astride his stool . |
| 8 | I 'm not proposing that to you at the moment Chairman , I 'm just pointing it out to members so that there 's no confusion on it . |
| 9 | Yes , sorry , just to interrupt for a moment Chairman . |
| 10 | What I think at this moment Chairman is , is that route contains several setbacks |
| 11 | But let us for the moment look at the word that signifies the process or action itself : the word kill . |
| 12 | The choreography remains a moment by moment response to the poems and , awkwardly , these themselves are not especially good . |
| 13 | Not that he 'd ever for a moment think of … taking advantage , so to speak , of a young woman of loose morals like Mrs Heatherington-Scott . ’ |
| 14 | Henry picked up another set of handles and in a moment Prince Charming was walking towards Cinderella and bowing from the waist . |
| 15 | At that moment Ianthe came into the room and accepted a glass of sherry . |
| 16 | At the moment computer manufacturers and disc drive makers who do not want to invest in their own design are uncertain about whose bandwagon to jump on . |
| 17 | At the moment CATCHEM is the baby of Derbyshire police force who bear the cost of its operation . |
| 18 | For a moment Campion did n't answer . |
| 19 | ‘ Cheryl , please , I hardly think this is the right moment for- ’ |
| 20 | A state of affairs is not appropriate at the moment mind you |
| 21 | I usually leave a message saying I 'm having sex at the moment ring back in about three seconds . |
| 22 | From that moment Tess found she could whistle tunes to the birds just as Mrs d'Urberville wanted . |
| 23 | A SPUR of the moment fishing trip that Michael Harty arranged to please his three-year-old son left him £90 out of pocket . |
| 24 | ‘ Do n't know it , ’ the cabbie replied , and for one heart-stopping moment Chant thought he was going to drive on . |
| 25 | At the moment Ambulance crews take the majority of their passengers there . |
| 26 | At the moment RJA has thirty masters whose work is sold in Europe and in St Petersburg . |
| 27 | Lambert looked at him with such energy that for a moment Killion thought he had discovered a way out of it . |
| 28 | At the moment protein A is so scarce it costs between £5 and £10 a milligram . |
| 29 | For a moment animosity was swept away by mutual interest and , as she led him towards the recovery cage , she felt a pang of regret that their relationship could not be friendly . |
| 30 | Chuck hesitated as his father moved off unsteadily towards the thicket , and at that moment Devraux and the Moi trackers entered the glade . |