Example sentences of "moment when the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dostoevsky 's opinion , ‘ The portrait painter seeks the moment when the model looks most like himself ; in the capacity to find and hold this moment lies also the talent of the portraitist . ’ |
| 2 | Mid afternoon gives us a moment when the heart of light in a leaf trembles russet rainbows . |
| 3 | So although the ERP had to persist for several hundred milliseconds before the subject felt anything , they nevertheless reported that the sensation had occurred at the moment when the ERP was beginning . |
| 4 | This is the moment when the promoter has to demonstrate faith in the act 's ability to do good business . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | The film was Snow White ; and I felt my sanity slipping until the moment when the queen metamorphosed into the witch . |
| 7 | Then the tight cysts , not unlike Maggie 's soap egg , glued onto the reed stalks , and swelling , swelling , splitting until finally the pictures captured the moment when the dragonfly broke from the chrysalis , crawled desperately up the reed stem and unfolded its glorious wings in the sunshine , spreading them out to harden , to firm up , to set , to grow strong . |
| 8 | And yet this is happening at a moment when the leaders in question stand exceptionally low in public esteem . |
| 9 | It was that moment when the owl was still calling and the day birds began to sing . |
| 10 | Right up to the moment when the news-reader said , ‘ And that 's the end of the News . |
| 11 | He did so at the last moment when the Unionists agreed not to oppose Henderson . |
| 12 | Evelyn finished the last letter of the last word and stood perfectly still , ready for the moment when the teacher should turn and see . |
| 13 | They will have 17 days between the moment when the last result is known and April 27 , when the new Parliament meets for the first time , to gather sufficient support from MPs from minority parties to form a government . |
| 14 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 15 | And it was a genuinely historic moment when the first tanks moved past the blocks of apartments in the Beirut suburbs , many of the buildings scorched and smashed by months of fighting . |
| 16 | the first flow of nourishment in and from the mother 's body , evoking a moment when the emerging sexual drive is still closely linked to — propped on — the life-and-death urgency of the feeding instinct . |
| 17 | The subsequent courts of sewers were steadily reinforced by successive legislation , culminating in 1532 in Henry VIII 's Statute of Sewers , just at the moment when the power of the monastic lords of the levels was broken by the Reformation . |
| 18 | In contrast with my wishful thinking of the day before , I now found it impossible to visualize anything after the moment when the lights would go out and the window of the block would be thrown open . |
| 19 | Although there was now little more than an hour to go , the actual moment when the lights would go out remained stubbornly remote . |
| 20 | However much I might take refuge in the present in which it had not yet happened , there would be a moment when the present was the present in which it was happening . |
| 21 | i.e. choose the moment when the current would safely sweep a small boat through one of the narrow arches of old London Bridge . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , as he reached the critical moment when the knees start to tremble , his war wounded leg had collapsed under him , causing a premature withdrawal and an immediate loss of ardour as his bare bottom came into contact with the mud and water of the cinema bike park . |
| 23 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 24 | Perhaps it is all a question of timing , and that summer afternoon in 1921 was the moment when the linear impulse started its break through to public awareness . |
| 25 | I remember well the moment when the electricity came back on . |
| 26 | He told her it was like the moment when the tide stops coming in and starts going out again . |
| 27 | Some felt a leaping in their spirits at the moment when the announcement was made at the AGM , something which they knew was from God . |
| 28 | The psalm refers back to the dreadful moment when the children of Israel , set free from Egypt , quarrelled with Moses about the lack of water , saying : ‘ Is the Lord among us or not ? ’ |
| 29 | Obviously , the content of a shot has a bearing on its length ; ideally , it should end just at the moment when the viewer has absorbed all the information in the scene , and is beginning to wonder what happens next ? |
| 30 | That was the moment when the fabulous Nan Mahon had flashed her eyes . |