Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the moment [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is wearing some beads now , hidden for the moment under her clothes . ) |
| 2 | Where the skin stretched taut along his cheekbones it held a faint flush of colour after the day out , the disfiguring bitterness in the blue eyes hidden for the moment behind closed , black-fringed lids . |
| 3 | Traditionally , the answer has been found in the study of the two main factors which were at issue in the years leading up to what is regarded as the moment of outbreak of war , the confiscation of the duchy of Aquitaine by King Philip VI of France in May 1337 . |
| 4 | With justice the treaty of Brétigny is often regarded as the moment at which , for the first time , both sides decided to call a halt and have their willingness to do so formally recognised in a treaty , one of the most important of the whole war . |
| 5 | One of Scotland 's more interesting ruins , Minto stands for the moment in unspoilt Scottish Borders scenery , which could never be ‘ replicated ’ in Japan . |
| 6 | The poetry above was no mere dream to be forgotten after the moment of its conception ( or the requirements of an appointment , as some have claimed ! ) . |
| 7 | In the latter he or she develops from the moment of birth . |
| 8 | The woman had no hope of escape but she did not seek one , revelling in the moment of attention from a Government Man . |
| 9 | But the seeds of destruction were contained in the moment of triumph . |
| 10 | Only for the sickening leap in the throat , the feeling of being frozen in the moment of falling . |
| 11 | Consider the wonderfully natural portrait of Lady Holland ( 1766 ) , caught in the moment of looking up from her book . |
| 12 | Some series are designed from the moment of conception to have primarily melodic potential , their contours suggesting a good melodic flow . |
| 13 | I want to say the thing that 's happening at the moment in my difficult life that I 'd hold onto like a drowning man with a log . |
| 14 | He gives a running commentary on what is happening at the moment in the game but also gives a players history where he thinks it will help the reader to understand to a fuller extent what is happening in the play . |
| 15 | And , and I think what is actually happening at the moment in , in the parish is that there is some perception , there is a perception , that something is , that things are changing and that the parish council is of importance . |
| 16 | ‘ It looks at the moment as if she has fallen to her death , ’ a spokesman told TODAY . |
| 17 | Yes , of the 28 it looks at the moment as if there are only 4 from the Wolves area . |
| 18 | Nothing else mattered at the moment except the fact that I wanted to be a follower of Jesus Christ — whoever He was . |
| 19 | Where just walking at the moment at cottage hospital now . |
| 20 | They focus not on areas of need but on areas where they want to be seen to be giving , and that 's usually where the spotlight happens for the moment to be falling . |
| 21 | And in order to get in to that state of mind one does not have to be a complete lifelong fanatic , one only has to be completely absorbed for the moment by a particular cause , and that kind of absorption is of course something which good causes often do seem to demand . |
| 22 | With the verbal arts I think it can only be done for the moment by writing about nature . |
| 23 | Instead , she 's been saved for the moment by an old-fashioned storyteller , worth millions — George Lucas of Star Wars . |
| 24 | It seems more significant that her work was actively collected from the moment of production to the present day . |
| 25 | As for reception , Benjamin sees the film audience , detached from the moment of production , as being in the position of a critic , identifying with the analytical work of the camera rather than with the experiences of the characters . |
| 26 | The variables x and y relate to poloidal potentials and a toroidal magnetic field component , and z is related to the moment of angular momentum . |
| 27 | That community , for historical reasons , happens at the moment to be East Sussex , the whole of East Sussex including Brighton , Eastbourne , Hastings and so on , and a substantial slice of West Sussex , so that our open community courses are available in these areas . |
| 28 | The relevant concept is seen to be that choice , influencing cost , which is borne exclusively by the decision-maker , can not be shifted to others and is dated at the moment of the decision . |
| 29 | Okay , and you will suffer as a result of liberalization , and by and large those costs , or those benefits that er , reaped at the moment by those countries are very , very small in comparison to the , er , the costs of protectionism to the rest of the world . |
| 30 | The ability to organise a classroom , a group or an individual child , to structure experience so that learning not only occurs at the moment of teaching but remains ; the sensitivity to perceive the world from a child 's perspective , the understanding to build for tomorrow upon the child 's present , and to know and appreciate a child 's weaknesses and strengths — these are the skills which are the basis for a teacher 's claim to ‘ professionalism ’ . |