Example sentences of "[noun sg] at moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | She went on gay-rights marches — although , as far as anyone knew , she was heterosexual — and was wont to punch the air with her fist at moments which seemed to call for affirmation or triumph . |
| 2 | The solution is to enjoy staring at the cat at moments when it is not staring back . |
| 3 | Miss D'Arcy might be a young woman with a remarkable inheritance , but there were others , and money was not the sole factor at moments such as this . |
| 4 | They were elicited by my questions about his earlier career , and most of them seemed new to Laura for she laughed with unfeignable gaiety , her head at moments in helpless tears against his chest . |
| 5 | I think to the top end , then those of you who were struggling around with D syndrome at moment , you know let's get you pushed in there . |
| 6 | It is , therefore , subject to change at moments of political crisis as particular interests scramble to shape the constitution and the rules of the political game to their own advantage . |
| 7 | Thus , they are all particularly clearly in play at moments like ‘ heart has wings ’ ( bar 5 ) , where a rhythmic stretching-out makes the voice try to fly , while at the same time it is poignantly connected to earth by a descending glissando on the last note ; and the ‘ how the ghost of you clings ’ phrase , which is given a strikingly tremulous ‘ clings ’ . |
| 8 | People who never normally go to church find themselves called upon to express their emotions through religious symbols and imagery at moments of transition and crisis in their lives : at baptisms , weddings and funerals . |
| 9 | Certainly such aspirations surface with extraordinary promptness at moments of crisis or revolution . |
| 10 | He can lapse into playground language at moments of stress , or even , at one point , some pompous Hancockian self-pity . |
| 11 | his face at moment , he had n't been anywhere round to , since all this happened before Christmas . |
| 12 | The efforts made at that time by Sartre , Camus , Merleau-Ponty et alia to rehabilitate Nizan achieved no more than to illustrate the impossibility of reasoned dialogue with the French communist party at moments of extreme ideological polarisation . |