Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | His only choice at present was to wait for the right moment to play his hand . |
| 2 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 3 | To wait for the appropriate moment . |
| 4 | Loveless , imposing and eloquent , critical of landlords and farmers , lay and ecclesiastical , was enshrined as a working-class hero , his cause célèbre revered as an emotive moment in the development of trade unionism . |
| 5 | She stands for a long moment . |
| 6 | ‘ Go ! ’ she hissed at Ember , but he stopped for an agonizing moment to cover her better . |
| 7 | He would wait for the right moment . |
| 8 | Luxuriating in the public attentions of such a suitor , she had drawn it out too much , perhaps , so that the final acceptance had come after the optimum moment . |
| 9 | She fingered the cord , was reminded of the horrifying moment when she felt a constriction around her throat and the colours of the room receded . |
| 10 | It was an AIDS benefit and I was caught in a private moment . |
| 11 | Caught in a relaxed moment are . |
| 12 | The nub of this criticism is that such views give rise to a kind of political paralysis : everything must wait until the revolutionary moment in which the production relations are transformed ; until then labour must play a purely oppositional role , a role which Precludes struggle of a ‘ prefigurative ’ kind . |
| 13 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 14 | Please do not wait until the last moment to inform us . |
| 15 | The analysis might concentrate on a small moment within a restricted world . |
| 16 | But Peter rose at the same moment . |
| 17 | Charles had planned to take part in a private Mass with the Pope , but was forbidden at the last moment after strong protest to the government from the Church of England hierarchy . |
| 18 | Referring to the customer , he said : ‘ He was committed at the very moment that he put his money into the machine . |
| 19 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 20 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 21 | The charges against Mr Perez have come at an inconvenient moment , not only for him but also for Venezuela . |
| 22 | This seems an apt description of the defensive strategies associated with a racism of relative affluence caught at a particular moment of its crystallization . |
| 23 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 24 | The philosophers of pragmatism resisted the idea that experience could be frozen at a particular moment in time and analysed in chunks . |
| 25 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 26 | Quite often operations could be cancelled at the last moment owing to worsening weather conditions , and this must have been a terrible let-down for them , after getting themselves keyed-up for yet another hectic night . |
| 27 | The promised job with the chain stores was cancelled at the last moment ‘ due to the Depression ’ , the standard excuse . |
| 28 | He was preparing himself for a British Council tour of France but it was cancelled at the last moment ; he did , however , fly to Amsterdam and then on to Rome in December under the auspices of the same organization . |
| 29 | Elections for both the Lok Sabha and the state Assembly had then been scheduled to coincide with the June 1991 general election but were cancelled at the last moment [ see p. 38287 ] . |
| 30 | A planned trip by PLO chair Yassir Arafat to Syria in mid-October was cancelled at the last moment . |