Example sentences of "[adv] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post-war Britain is not the age when the working-class hero arrived on the literary stage but rather the moment when , with some evident reluctance , he left it . |
| 2 | Especially the moment when Sir Edward Parkes , surveying university gloom , announced : ‘ Unknown genius must be allowed to flower . ’ |
| 3 | The seventh prayer in the long version concerns the suffering before Annas , Caiaphas , Pilate and Herod , but more especially the moment when Christ looks at Peter after he has denied him ( Luke 22:55 — 62 ) : The short version , typically , focuses more sharply , concentrating only on the episode with Peter so that there is an identification made between him and the meditator and , by implication , all men who by their natures inevitably betray Christ : The Longleat version of this subject shows by comparison how much less effective than either of the others it is . |
| 4 | Perhaps the moment is never right , there 's always some excuse . |
| 5 | So the moment you think one of the family is infected , ask your health visitor , school nurse , local health clinic , doctor or chemist for a suitable treatment . |
| 6 | So the moment the shout was heard , one of them would rush and then try to provide what was wanted on the instant . |
| 7 | And so the moment of truth . |
| 8 | Erm we 've got some stand alone term insurances which are currently paying one pound ninety , so the moment they increase the policy fee they 'll attempt to lapse so we 're writing to all those people now to tell them to increase . |
| 9 | So now he is my enemy , I have touched his pride , and he has been waiting only the moment to humiliate me … ’ |
| 10 | For those of you that do n't know can I remind you that in the last few years one million pounds of capital was spent on Moat Centre alone on the cost together the moment of running Moat Centre for Highfield 's youth is five hundred thousand a year . |
| 11 | ‘ Could you drop me off here ? ’ she asked quickly , blinking away the moment of self-analysis . |
| 12 | Anyway the moment I trod the stage I felt completely at home . |
| 13 | To have that evening with Francis once more , not all of it , just the moment when I was through the door and heard him say , ‘ Do n't go , do n't go , ’ and I would n't have gone , and my story would have had a different end ? |
| 14 | Caroline held her breath as they stood in the silence , watching as it began its final plunge , and , at just the moment it painted the world crimson , Nicolo put his hands on her shoulders . |
| 15 | Somehow the moment had no meaning . |
| 16 | All the children had been rushed indoors the moment the trouble started . |
| 17 | It will frustrate the cussedness of the officials who , this year , closed down the passenger lifts on the stroke of 4 o'clock — exactly the moment at which many people on Levels 1 and 2 would have wished to use them as they carried packages down to the exit . |
| 18 | Even Alan Phillips , the former Wales hooker who became Cardiff coach this season , concedes that now is not the moment for his players . |
| 19 | McLeish decided that it was probably not the moment to suggest to her that the real reason any civil servant disliked lobbyists must be that the chaps were paid to make sure Ministers got a view other than the Departmental one . |
| 20 | He also knew this was not the moment to tell her what he 'd learnt today . |
| 21 | This was not the moment to lecture him on the facts of hospital life , so I said briefly , ‘ Patients prefer two to one , ’ and asked if he had explained his position to Sister . |
| 22 | Visitors will at least be reminded that Venetian art in this period was not an entirely closed world , and that Giorgione 's career is far from being fully understood , but it is difficult to escape the conclusion that now is not the moment , and an exhibition of this kind is not the ideal place to explore such art-historical problems . |
| 23 | This was not the moment to tell him that six people had to put money into a building society for every borrower who took it out , and some of the six must read the paper . |
| 24 | This was not the moment to make a stand for independence . |
| 25 | And this was not the moment to suggest that Emilia , with her refusal to let go of Cambridge , to be truly present in the parish , might herself be at fault . |
| 26 | This is not the moment to . |
| 27 | This is not the moment to go toddling back to the office to fart about over some fine print in sub-clause seventy-nine with a bunch of anal-retentives from Accounts . ’ |
| 28 | It was not the moment she would have chosen , but the determined glint in Silas 's eye told her he expected to hear the truth . |
| 29 | This is not the moment to rehearse the arguments for and against the various options with which we may be presented in December , so I leave the House with two brief thoughts . |
| 30 | This was not the moment to tell John about the substituted bodies . |