Example sentences of "[art] [adj] moments [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In putting the Collection together , our music editors combed a thousand hit parades to bring you the finest moments in rock'n'roll . |
| 2 | He had encouraged and praised her , bullied her a little when she needed bullying , and given her the love and support that had made her feel , even in the darkest moments of self-doubt , that she could rise above all the problems and emerge triumphant . |
| 3 | Given the few moments of contemplation she 'd wanted , it would probably have been her own choice for the evening . |
| 4 | Effie , spared the final agonising pangs of the actual moments of birth , recovered so slowly that McAllister feared that she had overdone the chloroform . |
| 5 | In the brief moments of respite they get they sometimes wonder , like Champaben , a homeworker ; |
| 6 | When Morse , himself looking far from serene , had come into The Randolph and demanded to see Messrs Aldrich and Brown immediately , he had resolutely avoided her eyes , appearing to have no wish to rekindle the brief moments of intimacy which had occurred in the morning 's early hours . |
| 7 | The band contours illustrated in Fig. 5.28 may be taken as typical , though the details vary with the magnitudes of the three moments of inertia . |
| 8 | Chris Taylor ( Charlie Sheen ) surveys the aftermath of a bitter night battle , surprised to have lived to see dawn , in the closing moments of Platoon . |
| 9 | It will try to identify what the key moments of commitment/disengagement are , when , and to whom , school offers self-fulfilment and when it operates denial ; whether patterns of differentiation persist within the national framework of ‘ entitlement ’ and equality of opportunity . |
| 10 | This distinction can be backed up by philosophy and aesthetics , and descriptions can be found of the resultant moments of vision or epiphanies . |
| 11 | Design mirrors ( represents and directly embodies ) this transformative reality by uniting , in the vertical direction , in the moment " of designing , complex human abilities both cognitive and practical and in the horizontal ( over time but in interaction with the vertical moment ) , the movement from critique through the various moments of problem resolution and definition to the realisation of the " solution " in practice ( also cognitive-practical moments but of a different order ) . |
| 12 | Life is painful throughout , with only the briefest moments of relief — the hyacinth garden , the fishmen at Magnus Martyr , boating — all of which only lead back into the cycle of further ( often sexual ) pain . |
| 13 | Although the rapid decline of the church courts into virtual desuetude over the eighteenth century removed the only institutional form of church control over the moral behaviour of the lower orders , they could hardly be unaware of the continuing power of the parson operating both through the vestry and through areas of personal control such as that over charity and at the vital moments of baptism , marriage and burial . |
| 14 | Stewards were called in to clear the pitch and the final moments of play continued . |
| 15 | The weather had held up well ; the fleeting moments of sunlight made the stone of the imposing new office blocks glow warmly . |
| 16 | He imagined being shot in the water and it closing over his head , filling his mouth and lungs , the last moments of life choked out of him . |
| 17 | Like the wind that guttered and blew out the candles , a bloodied man had broken through the dancers ' joy to break the glittering ball into dark fragments , yet still some few couples could not bear to relinquish the last moments of peace . |
| 18 | The intense moments of pain and fear that gripped me were too remote to be understood by anyone who has not been through a similar experience . |
| 19 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |
| 20 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 21 | After a few moments of thought , a child replies , " We collect it from bees . " |
| 22 | ‘ No , all I 'm asking you for is a few moments of Master Lorimer 's time . |
| 23 | For Gloucester jockey Peter Scudamore a few moments of solitude and silence . |
| 24 | I had a few moments of fury , a fury compounded of shame at my own stupidity , the triteness of the situation , the thought of my cottage and supper and the cosy fireside . |
| 25 | Now and again there were diversions , when one or another of the remaining five would hold the stage and would have a few moments of limelight , or glory . |
| 26 | Trains had been laid on to despatch them to all parts of the country , so that for the rest of their lives they would be able to recall a few moments of honour , even glory . |
| 27 | So she 'd be able to have a few moments of peace and quiet in which to interview the woman . |
| 28 | Manville asked , after a few moments of silence . |
| 29 | After a few moments of silence there was a series of sharp raps on the door , and a voice called out , asking if anyone was inside . |
| 30 | After a few moments of silence he pressed the button of an integral cassette-player beneath the dashboard and she was delighted to hear the opening bars of Mendelssohn 's Third Symphony . |