Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing in the cast of her features to suggest that she had been alarmed or frightened at the moment of her death . |
| 2 | None of us needs any particular other any more , so acquaintance is a whim , flowering or dying with the moment . |
| 3 | I have enjoyed reading ZZAP ! since early 1987 ( issue 25 ) and have seen many Editors come and go ( I do n't know whether I 'm coming or going at the moment — Ed ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I could n't eat or drink at the moment . |
| 5 | She 's all grey , rather than freckled at the moment , but this chick is still something very special to staff at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust . |
| 6 | Clearly , it shows a very much more complex structure than exists at the moment ( see Figure 3.1a ) . |
| 7 | The position of the mother would be one of even greater dependence than exists at the moment . |
| 8 | I mean , what we 're trying to do in the visual arts is to spend what limited money we have to produce a better situation for the visual artist and for the public who gets pleasure and enlightenment from visual arts than exists at the moment , so rather than just prop up the status quo , which is what is would be very easy to do if one just kept the pot boiling so to speak by giving a few grants to artists here and sitting at the centre of a spider 's web in Tunbridge Wells waiting for applications to come in to us and then responding . |
| 9 | Oslear produced a 2,000-word dossier recording all that happened from the moment that Lamb and England manager Micky Stewart lodged complaints about the state of the ball at lunchtime . |
| 10 | Could I ask Mr Chairman , just as a matter of interest , it 's first community care as much as I , , really , erm , what , what if any , erm , alteration will there be to the volunt to volunteers that continue at the moment , will |
| 11 | With a gentleness that lasted until the moment the primitive needs of their bodies demanded to be satisfied . |
| 12 | Kildare and return and booking at the moment is reported to be brisk . |
| 13 | Ashenden shrugged , and seemed for the moment somewhat less at ease . |
| 14 | It would , he had informed her at their first meeting , be mostly a matter of watching and listening for the moment . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't think I could face Dr Wyn 's nudges and winks at the moment . ’ |
| 16 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 17 | The other half should be neatly coiled and taped for the moment . |
| 18 | The fear of future unemployment , he believed , was exaggerated and existed at the moment " as a heavy legacy of dictatorship " . |
| 19 | He worked closely with Philip , one raising rarities and the other capturing them with pencil and brush at the moment of their greatest beauty . |
| 20 | She looks a little hot and flustered at the moment , which I 'm afraid is my fault for rushing her down here at very little notice . |
| 21 | Do do more writing and trying things and reading at the moment . |
| 22 | Michael Middleton has argued that Minton 's search for stimuli in exotic places and his febrile manner of living reflects a longing to escape self-consciousness and to live in the moment : ‘ He was for ever dashing off , afraid he might be missing something round the corner — another party , an evening at the Jazz Club , a drink on the Soho circuit . ’ |
| 23 | Says Spears , ‘ at every stage of the war he was just a little ahead of practice , theory and thought of the moment ’ . |
| 24 | Life can be good if you choose to make it that way , you should tell the truth , expose lies and live in the moment . |
| 25 | In general , the former method of organising by themes and keywords involves you more in doing analysis and thinking at the moment of reading , which is generally a good idea . |
| 26 | Can I interrupt and say at the moment that there 's a vast difference between a site which is set up indiscriminately on some layby somewhere with no direction or control and no facilities there , and the sort of the thing that we 're talking about . |
| 27 | So he has accepted an offer to drive the new Vector at Silverstone , but insists at the moment it is for this race only . |
| 28 | In a sense Mao is , is adopting very much the position that he seems to have taken erm in nineteen forty five when he 's , he 's looking forward to land return but saying at the moment our policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction will continue and at some stage we will then be able to move on into , to that reform . |
| 29 | But assuming for the moment that we can do better than fight over the trough , how do we do it ? |
| 30 | Therefore , you are bound to feel thwarted , frustrated as well as exhausted at the moment — quite unable to get your point or message across and still in two minds regarding certain plans and moves . |