Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] [art] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ask the hon. Lady to relax for a moment . |
| 2 | Does he agree that such twin torture is the very last thing that British business needs at the moment ? |
| 3 | So as far as you 're concerned , P E Ps have got a tremendous part to play at the moment , and I do recommend that you take advantage of them . |
| 4 | For the subsequent judgment task the films were presented in their entirety with an audible tone recorded at the moment the car passed through the centre of the junction . |
| 5 | It seems to me however that the terms presumption and exception as national guidance stands at the moment go together in the context of greenbelt . |
| 6 | The blue tape of smoke from the left hand snaggled for a moment , then the snaggle slid up the tape and disappeared , leaving the smoke rising as steadily as before from the underside of the hand . |
| 7 | A pathetic little shade hovered for a moment at her elbow , reminding her of her other errand . |
| 8 | Yet , and very often , even a single emphatic conventional gesture performed in a moment of stillness can be tremendously effective and make a strong point in what may otherwise be a continuous flow of dance . |
| 9 | I feel the white rose arching to the moment |
| 10 | But as the key diagram stands at the moment , because it goes north of Knaresborough in its indication of where the route proposal will be , I think if that i key diagram is to remain , it is right for the examination to consider what the need for that route is as opposed to a route or any other route which goes between Harrogate and Knaresborough . |
| 11 | Mr Hardiman 's large pink face convulsed for a moment into something very like a smile . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't think anyone knows what the immediate future holds at the moment . ’ |
| 13 | As the carts came abreast of the Americans seated in their stationary rickshaws , the Annamese who had fallen opened his eyes , and his pain-clouded gaze locked for a moment with Joseph 's . |
| 14 | An uneasy silence reigned for a moment , and then finally Mr Lewis rose to his feet . |
| 15 | A little , impatient look showed for a moment in her eyes . |
| 16 | The aging houngan 's grim facade held for a moment , then dissolved into a spray of laughter lines as he smiled . |
| 17 | A party of saints danced colourless across a stained-glass window lit for a moment by lightning . |
| 18 | He shrugged , the jerky movement betraying for a moment the emotion he had banished from his voice . |
| 19 | We 've a third big project going at the moment , a very tricky one . |
| 20 | it 's a dirty fuel to use at the moment but they 're all , there are means being developed even now on |
| 21 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
| 22 | His normally open , boyish face closed for a moment , and then he said warily , " Why do you ask ? " |
| 23 | The whole team fades at the moment . |
| 24 | And she , too , had something of the precision and contrived charm of a doll with an almost round head poised ’ on a long delicate neck , a snub nose with a splatter of freckles , a small mouth with a full upper lip beautifully curved and a bristle of cropped hair , originally fair but with bright orange tips which caught the sun and trembled in the breeze so that the whole head seemed for a moment to have a vivid life separated from the rest of her body and , the image changing , he had seen her as a bright exotic flower . |
| 25 | However , as it was impossible to know whether it was blow one or blow ten ( the maximum number permitted at the moment ) which drew the blood on Roy 's Dream , it did serve to underline that though the Jockey Club may be moving in the right direction , its pace of reform is still too slow , leaving it too open to criticism . |
| 26 | Dominic 's handsome face darkened for a moment then , surprisingly , he smiled . |
| 27 | An ear the size of a flying saucer appeared for a moment and then was whisked away and replaced by a no less monstrous nose and half an eye . |