Example sentences of "[prep] [num] moment [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man is the history of his breaths and thoughts , acts , atoms and wounds , love , indifference and dislike ; also of his race and nation , the soil that fed him and his forebears , the stones and sands of his familiar places , long-silenced battles and struggles of conscience , of the smiles of girls and the slow utterance of old women , of accidents and the gradual action of inexorable law , of all this and something else too , a single flame which in every way obeys the laws that pertain to Fire itself , and yet is lit and put out from one moment to the next , and can never be relumed in the whole waste of time to come . |
| 2 | Whether my knowledge that I shall some day die , that a nuclear war is likely sooner or later , that alcohol will kill me , that another person is suffering , does move me in one direction or another , depends on the extent of my disposition to take these things into account in choices , on awareness which may spontaneously vary from one moment to the next and be sustainable only by an effort of will . |
| 3 | It is not so much a matter of deciding in advance which activities and what kinds of adult input match the child 's level of development , either in terms of language or cognitive abilities ; rather , it is a matter of the adult being sensitive to the child 's changing communicative needs and adjusting her speech and actions from one moment to the next . |
| 4 | She felt nothing very much , except the sense of moving inexorably from one moment to the next , and accepting what each brought . |
| 5 | She was finding it increasingly difficult to sit here , in his home , trying to cope with the spectrum of emotions that chased pell-mell through her from one moment to the next , and at the same time evince a polite interest in Richard 's remarks . |