Example sentences of "a [adj] moment of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt a strange moment of camaraderie with Hendrique . |
| 2 | Spike knew that he was within a few moments of termination . |
| 3 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
| 4 | After a few moments of thought , a child replies , " We collect it from bees . " |
| 5 | ‘ No , all I 'm asking you for is a few moments of Master Lorimer 's time . |
| 6 | For Gloucester jockey Peter Scudamore a few moments of solitude and silence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So she 'd be able to have a few moments of peace and quiet in which to interview the woman . |
| 11 | Manville asked , after a few moments of silence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After a few moments of pandemonium , Shamir thanked the delegates for their show of confidence , declared the convention closed and walked out of the hall , followed by most of his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 15 | There was a further moment of hesitation , then Rodriguez suddenly made up his mind , and with a brief nod of his head , resumed his seat . |
| 16 | There was a further moment of hesitation , then she said : 'He flew to Geneva on Friday the fourth of November and returned on Monday the fourteenth . ’ |
| 17 | In that case , Lipsey 's diagram includes a further moment of choice , in the box in Figure 3.1 where ‘ the theory appears to be either inconsistent with the facts or consistent with the facts ’ . |
| 18 | At the Olympic Games in Barcelona this year , the spectacle of the 100 metres will provide an almost sadistically tremulous thrill for the spectator , a perfect metaphor for those hidden seconds when one 's own life was changed by the failure or ability to rise to a demanding moment of crisis . |
| 19 | But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle . |
| 20 | She felt a tiny moment of pride : this was an accident that her power had brought about and Phoebe knew it . |
| 21 | It had been a mere moment of whiteness seen out of the corner of her eye but it had not moved purposefully like a horse does with a rider . |
| 22 | Take an example from " Diffugere nives " , the line which signals a crucial moment of counterpoise in the poem : , literally " losses however swift restore heavenly moons " , meaning " swift moons , however , restore heavenly losses " . |
| 23 | Or the awareness may arrive in a sudden moment of revelation , one vivid encounter bringing with it the perception of blackness . |
| 24 | The specimen is firmly fixed at one end and the other end is clamped to a disc , with a large moment of inertia , which can move freely . |
| 25 | The two crosses at either end of the roof gave her a brief moment of hope . |
| 26 | ‘ And the penalty if ye fail , ’ the Master of Ceremonies warned in a brief moment of lucidity . |
| 27 | His newborn son 's face he could still recall vividly and sometimes did in his dreams , that white unsullied look of sweet knowledgeable contentment , as if , in a brief moment of life , he had seen and known all there was to know , seen it and rejected it . |
| 28 | The technician 's reply came after a brief moment of hesitation . |
| 29 | After a brief moment of goalscoring glory in the Mersey derby earlier this month , Johnston 's career has plummeted again with Kendall dumping him s expensive Scottish signing in the reserves . |
| 30 | One way-out youngster appeared in court following the Bank Holiday disturbances with his hair dressed in what sounds remarkably like the ‘ Mohican cut ’ which had a brief moment of popularity among more outlandish Teds in the 1950s and which has reappeared with the Punks . |