Example sentences of "be a moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Killing Angela Brickell might have been a moment 's panic . |
| 2 | One of those deep troughs of dust could suck his wheels down , and there 'd be nobody passing on this road , not for days , maybe , maybe not even then , and he had n't thought to bring water along or tell anybody where he 'd gone , it had all happened too fast , there had n't been a moment . |
| 3 | There had been a moment 's silence and then Alice had said : ‘ My father died , killed in an accident when I was fifteen . ’ |
| 4 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 5 | There had never been a moment like it . |
| 6 | GUIL : Our names shouted in a certain dawn … a message … a summons … there must have been a moment , at the beginning , where we could have said — no . |
| 7 | There had been a moment when he sat back and looked at her , naked and submissive in the grass , and his heart started to sing and his mind spun into a dazzling vision of what might be … because we can only ever be a might-have-been , my dear love … that little boy with dark mischievous eyes , slender and supple , and Ireland 's future Prince … |
| 8 | During the original trial Ronson 's defence counsel emphasised his client 's integrity on several occasions , a fact which the trial judge found difficult to reconcile with his criminal behaviour concluding it must have ‘ been a moment of greed ’ . |
| 9 | There must have been a moment when Juliet had shown some spark of individuality which he failed to foster . |
| 10 | Perhaps there had been a moment where Lucy 's guard had been down and she might have been diverted , but the moment had now passed . |
| 11 | He was taken aback , and more confused than he 'd been a moment ago . |
| 12 | There had been a moment in his career , as he declared in the interesting preface he wrote to Josef Pieper 's Leisure the Basis of Culture and as Brand Blanshard has retailed in the Eliot Anniversary Issue of The Southern Review ( 1985 ) , ( ‘ Eliot at Oxford ’ ) , when , after a good deal of philosophical study , lie had decided to renounce the subject as such . |
| 13 | And yet … there had been a moment when Dane 's undeniable magnetism had reached out to her , too , ensnaring her in its thrall just as surely as it captured every other female . |
| 14 | It had always been a moment of pure magic to him in the theatre , the consciousness of the huge rustling animal behind him , and the hush as the house lights went down , the pause of utter stillness , silence , and then as he brought his baton down , the incredible surge of excitement as music smashed the silence , created instantly the illusion of that otherworld that did n't really exist . |
| 15 | When , she thought , had there ever been a moment when she had been unsure that she disliked him ? |
| 16 | ‘ Mind you , there does n't seem to have been a moment 's peace since I started out in the Irish News away back in 1929 . |
| 17 | I wo n't be a moment . ’ |
| 18 | But Mr Zogby of the Arab-American Institute believes that the war in the Gulf , far from setting the cause back , may be a moment of opportunity : ‘ The United States ’ , he says , ‘ now knows that it will need to build bridges to the Middle East . |
| 19 | ‘ Mummy wo n't be a moment . ’ |
| 20 | I wo n't be a moment . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For me , it would be a moment of revelation . |
| 23 | There does n't seem to be a moment that goes by when I 'm not thinking about food . |
| 24 | ‘ I wo n't be a moment . |
| 25 | This autumn 's public-spending round will be a moment of truth . |
| 26 | I wo n't be a moment . ’ |
| 27 | A test can not be a moment of pure empirical truth where theory is judged against reality . |
| 28 | I wo n't be a moment , ’ Laidlaw said , indicating the counter behind him . |
| 29 | What was no doubt intended to be a moment of triumph fell absolutely flat , particularly as the late editor of the Evening Standard — Charles Wintour — was roused to indignation sufficiently vigorous to make it difficult to continue with the dinner . |
| 30 | There has to be a moment of personal insight , in which critical evaluation is not put aside but is transcended . |