Example sentences of "[adj] moment when [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was certainly born under an unlucky star , or , like Chesterton 's donkey , ‘ when fishes flew and forests walked and figs grew upon thorn , some moment when the moon was blood then , surely , I was born ! ’ |
| 2 | From that revelatory moment when the box of white paper is opened until the moment of exposure the exchange of light onto receptive surface has begun . |
| 3 | Sarah watched for a few moments when the game began , then went off to look for her Nature treasures . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's a sad moment when a man realizes he is expendable . ’ |
| 5 | Her husband ( and his old friend ) McKnight Kauffer , had just died and Eliot speculated about the question of " what might have been " in anyone 's life — that crucial moment when a life is changed . |
| 6 | Hygienists spoke of the need to grasp the actual moment when the nerve centres of life were poisoned through hereditary influence or degenerate living . |
| 7 | It was that moment when the owl was still calling and the day birds began to sing . |
| 8 | Even though he was talking unemotionally his voice reflected the shock of that moment when the canvas flap at the back of the gypsy caravan had parted , revealing the barrels of the two Kalashnikovs . |
| 9 | reminds the reader of that moment when the shadow falls ‘ Between the potency/ And the existence ’ , or of Tiresias 's being trapped unfulfilled in sexual desire , bearing witness to all the ritualistically patterned couplings of history , ‘ throbbing between two lives ’ . |
| 10 | It was the historic moment when the rule of the people , the idea of democracy , was seen as the only legitimate form of government and as the key to sweeping away the rule of individual despots and arrogant oligarchies , and when articulate voices were not afraid to proclaim their faith in the virtues and good judgement of the people as a whole . |
| 11 | Suddenly swamped by exhaustion , she slumped back against the cushions and closed her eyes , reliving the awful moment when the car had slid into the snowdrift . |
| 12 | There is n't that sudden moment when the music stops and you look into one another 's eyes for the first time , or whatever . |
| 13 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , the fact remains that even this frog is dependent upon rains arriving at some time and its active life is , in reality , condensed to that brief moment when the desert is wet . |
| 15 | There is no mysticism about it , but rather an acceptance of death and an awareness of all the little moments when the self was inadequate . |
| 16 | Minor conflicts occur with the couple trying to pacify her , this continues up to a black moment when the house relents and saves them and then I say and this is important I think when you write for a radio , I have marked one paragraph with red brackets . |
| 17 | Attention to detail , like holding one 's briefcase in the left hand so that the right can be used for the handshake , removes the possibility of an awkward moment when a briefcase is clumsily transferred from right to left as the buyer extends his hand in greeting . |
| 18 | The opening episode of ‘ The Daleks ’ , ‘ The Dead Planet ’ premiers the use of Inlay in Doctor Who for one of the most historic shots in the programme 's history — the awesome moment when the Doctor , Ian , Barbara and Susan first look down at the glittering towers of the Dalek city , gleaming , some miles distant , in the rays of the setting sun . |
| 19 | Alan Ayckbourn leaves his new play until the last terrible moments when the cast has been assembled and the theatre booked and the tickets sold . |
| 20 | The appearance of History and Class Consciousness at the height of the Modernist movement suggests the degree to which history was being totalized by Lukács at the very moment when the process of detotalization had already begun — even in the aporetic possibilities of his own writings . |
| 21 | The rule in Rylands v. Fletcher thus ceases to be available at the very moment when the plaintiff needs it . |
| 22 | What message has the minister to give to the five hundred and five employees of Barclays Bank in London whose new year began with receipt of a redundancy notice at the very moment when the bank 's new chief executive was having his pay doubled to seven hundred and thirty seven thousand pounds a year . |
| 23 | In those moments when a light was a dream or a miracle , you were light in that darkness . |
| 24 | The New York Times 's Vincent Canby wrote : ‘ There is nothing obviously glossy in Midnight Cowboy , but it contains a lot of superior laughter that has the same softening effect , ’ yet he found the central relationship was ‘ as honest and affecting as anything you 're likely to see in a movie , and more than compensates for those moments when the film seems to be exploiting its cheap , gaudy locale as might the director of a sight-seeing bus cruising through West 42nd Street and Greenwich Village ’ . |
| 25 | This means that the accuracy of our picture of God is not shown in the orthodoxy of our creeds or testimonies but in the truths which we assume and count on in the concrete situation ; those moments when the heat is on , the chips are down and reality seems to be breathing down our necks . |
| 26 | Lucy had told him about her desperate moment when the car refused to start outside the clinic . |
| 27 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 28 | There is a law of scholarship which stipulates that at the precise moment when the production of a book has reached the stage where no changes are possible , new source material appears . |
| 29 | Williams had not been there during the vital moments when the kidnapping had taken place . |
| 30 | They did more than justice to the varying moods of Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet Suite No 2 , although there were odd moments when the orchestra were not precisely together , notably at the start of The Young Juliet section . |