Example sentences of "[adj] at the same moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 2 | Birth and death , the ultimate holding and letting go , were paradoxically present at the same moment . |
| 3 | The great problem for any navigator was to know where his ship was : it was relatively easy to determine the latitude , which measures distance north or south of the equator , but it was much harder to find the longitude , or distance east or west of a fixed meridian — a line from pole to pole running through all the points at which the sun is at its highest at the same moment . |
| 4 | The mouth of every Councillor fell open at the same moment . |
| 5 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |