Example sentences of "[be] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , if it was intended as a distraction , then that must have been the moment when he poisoned his wife . |
| 2 | That had been the moment of her undoing . |
| 3 | This might have been the moment for Britain to transfer her loyalties to the European Community , but her ties with the Commonwealth and the special relationship were too strong . |
| 4 | The beginning of civilisation was almost certainly a mental development which came long before it affected man 's physical abilities , and it could well have been the moment when for the first time , a primitive creature found that he could override and control the instinctive urge to act , which up to that time would have been the only source of motivation . |
| 5 | That might have been the moment Forest drew level . |
| 6 | Transitions within a game to a different stage or to another game entirely are the moments of maximum vulnerability : from look to touch ; from touch to speech — speech the most difficult of all . |
| 7 | The names of the battles are known , some better than others ; for most these are the moments in the war which stand out . |
| 8 | Those are the moments when the cheetah can creep slowly forward . |
| 9 | The right moment to begin , he wrote , is the moment when right and wrong are no longer an issue , it may even be the moment , he wrote , when the realization dawns and is at once accepted that another moment might have been equally valid , and when this no longer matters . |
| 10 | It can also be the moment when a dancer moves into a pirouette and spins before holding a pose . |
| 11 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 12 | That , she thought , will be the moment of truth … |
| 13 | For the individual woman , the taking of a new step can be the moment at which her own nature affirms itself . |
| 14 | It should be the moment when this Government is finally brought to its senses . |
| 15 | Might this not be the moment to give nuclear disarmament a push , by keeping the test-ban promise ? |
| 16 | The ship is due to sail that day : on shore with the captain at a prize-fight , he overhears a plot to kidnap a certain American lady visiting Los Xicales with her brother , and rides out on a bicycle to warn them but also expecting that this will be the moment foretold for that second meeting . |
| 17 | Charles thought it might be the moment . |
| 18 | He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be . |
| 19 | She went the whole way now : ‘ He 'll pull the switch for the first television transmission to Danu , and that will also be the moment Danu is absorbed into the republic as the fifty-eighth province . |
| 20 | If it can be made to work — and time will show whether it can become a reality — that may be the moment to return to subjects such as political and economic union and the benefits of a different defence structure . |
| 21 | Depending on the Privileges Committee 's decision , there may well be a debate , and that will be the moment to discuss it . |
| 22 | He 's onside here this might be the moment for Kennedy he 's bundled out of it by White . |
| 23 | It could be the moment when , after years of tedious work , he obtains the result which leads to a flash of inspiration , a breakthrough to new knowledge , a glimpse into the future . |
| 24 | Far from being the moment when British trade unionism all but collapsed , the General Strike — even though there were other factors at play — sounded a warning to employers that trade unions would resist further wage incursions and that the cost of too muscular an industrial policy could be high . |
| 25 | Equally inevitable were the moments of sadness , made more painful by their sheer incongruity . |
| 26 | They were the moments , too , when new franchise areas were set up , such as Yorkshire in 1967 , and new services such as Breakfast TV ( 1981 ) and Channel 4 ( 1981 ) . |
| 27 | Meals after shows , with a company who all got on , Charles found , were the moments he most enjoyed of being an actor . |
| 28 | The right moment to begin , he wrote , is the moment when right and wrong are no longer an issue , it may even be the moment , he wrote , when the realization dawns and is at once accepted that another moment might have been equally valid , and when this no longer matters . |
| 29 | This is the moment and that is all . |
| 30 | It is the moment , he wrote , when a man suddenly realizes that there is no tomorrow , no second chance , only today , this chance , now . |