Example sentences of "at [art] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment it looks like my usual stint of ironing on Thursday and shopping on Friday are the main fixtures , but anything can happen before then . |
| 2 | It is easy to sympathise with a traveller who writes : ‘ I have seen a quantity of things here — churches , palaces , statues , fountains and pictures ; and my brain is at the moment like the portfolio of an architect , or a print-shop , or a common-place book . ’ |
| 3 | Do you have a preference for classical acting or the modern theatre at the moment ? |
| 4 | In the West End there seems at the moment a tendency to rely too much on the goodwill of actors which is often accompanied by a failure to maintain a true interest in what is going on for the actor . |
| 5 | They are therefore predominantly sectarian in political religious form , and attempts to modify this sectarian structure are at the moment opposed mainly , though not exclusively , by the Irish Roman catholic clergy . |
| 6 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 7 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 8 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 9 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 10 | ‘ It is clear that UK standards are the highest at the moment . |
| 11 | Drinking brilliantly at the moment is the 1990 Cabernet Franc from Vigneti le Monde ( £68.94 from Bibendum ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm not feeling particularly kind at the moment , ’ Mrs Doran snapped . |
| 13 | We 're agreed , I think , that , ghastly though it is , there 's nothing we can do for that poor girl at the moment , and that Rita can go on for her . |
| 14 | The man on the Belgium desk at the Foreign Office was being driven to despair by what was coming out of Brussels at the moment but Henry saw no reason to say so . |
| 15 | I 'm really rather busy at the moment . |
| 16 | Jobs are scarce at the moment , so you 've got to be realistic . ’ |
| 17 | Anne is abroad at the moment , doing some research , but she left a message with someone that I 'm to give her a ring when she gets back . |
| 18 | ‘ Daddy would have loved to have come as I said , but he just ca n't get any time off at all at the moment . |
| 19 | ‘ You must think the whole world 's against you at the moment . ’ |
| 20 | Little Darren gets ill really easily at the moment and as for Sonja , she 's just gone mental — I ca n't understand her any more . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd find that a bit difficult at the moment . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not sure that I can at the moment , ’ I said apologetically . |
| 23 | ‘ I hear things are n't going too well for you at the moment . ’ |
| 24 | Are you completely broke at the moment , or … ’ |
| 25 | At the moment , they do n't seem to want to listen . |
| 26 | When something happens and I ca n't look after myself any more the situation will be different , but at the moment what I 'd really like most is my independence back . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Beset by these blasted cuts at the moment . |
| 28 | This is all going to cut you off from London a bit , but I do n't see that there 's really any other way at the moment . ’ |
| 29 | It gets a bit crowded when Camilla 's boyfriend is here , but they 're on holiday at the moment . ’ |
| 30 | At the moment it is in my garden , but I do n't think it is hardy enough to stay there . |