Example sentences of "[art] moment [pron] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But at the moment nothing has been firmed up .
2 So for the moment nothing could be done beyond issuing a warning .
3 The TW68 will start edging forward the moment its wheels clear the ground .
4 I think its the pressure 's you see in er magazines at the moment its the , the full lip look , you know , erm , that certain models have sort of erm put in Vogue at the moment and
5 Technically , the cetacean side of things is n't at all well handled : the beast is evidently as much of a pawn as Jonah ; its providential appearance just as the sailors are tossing Jonah overboard smacks far too heavily of a deus ex machina ; and the great fish is casually dismissed from the story the moment its narrative function has been fulfilled .
6 From the moment its powers were revived in 1715 the Parlement was a strong supporter of the Jansenist minority in the French Church ( see pp. 451–3 ) .
7 For the moment its dimensions are not revised .
8 At the moment its all to deliberate … defences know that when we get the ball centre midfield we will play it out wide and try and get a cross in from there .
9 At the moment its Gav and maybe a couple , and me and ‘ er indoors ’ .
10 six is my number , then numbers five , one , three , three another double number , I 've got erm , in my car at the moment its three , 'C' , 'G' ,
11 ‘ Yes , my dear , from the moment we 're married you 'll be Countess of Woodleigh . ’
12 ‘ At the moment we are waiting for the Americans .
13 The moment we had a gig , that city was faxed through to the record company marketing people .
14 There is of course a much heard debate about the fees and the services of the church , with people holding different views about whether or not there should be a charge for functions like funerals , but for the moment we are more concerned with how the ‘ consumers ’ experience the way the church 's representative reaches out to them at their time of crisis .
15 We will discuss a little later the emotions implications of this but for the moment we are reflecting on the practical issues that overwhelm the bereaved person .
16 When I was taught chemistry at Regent 's Street Polytechnic in the later 1930s , we 16-year-olds were treated as adults , not incompetents , and were expected to achieve titrations accurate to 1 per cent or less from the moment we began quantitative analysis : for were we not addressed by our splendid lecturers as ‘ Mr ’ ?
17 At the moment we maintain an easy , friendly relationship .
18 For the moment we can only piece together fragments of evidence .
19 Although occasional direct personal documentation does exist for earlier periods , and more could no doubt be found , for the moment we have no choice but to sketch the history of later life in the past without the intimate testimony of older people and their families .
20 To have closed such a gap the niggled gentleman must have swiped the juice from his companions ' lips the moment we passed and kick-started them into a sprint .
21 The bar was busy when we entered , buzzing with agricultural talk , but the moment we appeared , there was total silence .
22 And now they all nodded towards Agnes and Miss Florence said softly , ‘ The moment we got it , dear , I said , ‘ I know who that would suit , because she has the same figure as Mrs Bretton-Fawcett . ’
23 Of course you could say that we do not need all the animals anyway , but at the moment we have got them , so there is a conflict here .
24 For the moment we have to rely on intermittent subcutaneous injections which impose quite definite restrictions .
25 ‘ For the moment we 'll just watch it .
26 My father always used to say , ‘ The holiday begins the moment we set off on the way . ’
27 But at the moment we have four fish , plus some other unusual things that float around the tank .
28 We long for nights when their aircraft can not attack us , and at the moment we are rejoicing in a fog which is sheltering us , I wish the politicians would see sense and stop the war .
29 ‘ This has been given much discussion and at the moment we have used all the available funds . ’
30 ‘ I 've never had much to do with village life , but I believe one has to be very careful , ’ she explained ; ‘ and we do n't want to set the place by the ears the moment we 've arrived .
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