Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] moments " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Mansell ( pictured celebrating this year 's success ) has provided it with its most emotional moments . |
| 2 | That was one of the most memorable moments of all my award activities ! |
| 3 | Simon Garrett has compiled our look back at the most memorable moments of nineteen ninety two . |
| 4 | The scenario was that there was this normal , everyday family being filmed in their home at their most private moments and , in one scene , where a young boy is being pressurised into getting married , they all leave the room and he turns to the camera and says something like ‘ I 've got to be careful here . |
| 5 | However , I do believe that intensely private moments should not be captured on film , but this is left very much up to the integrity of the individual photographer . ’ |
| 6 | Fantastic aspects on the 8th and 9th to both Uranus and Neptune in Capricorn should provide one or two rather blissful moments , although this may not be enough to lift your spirits entirely . |
| 7 | ‘ It was one of the most exciting moments in my life . |
| 8 | But the appalling Carl Douglas and Rubettes are just as potent salvagers of memory as Mike Oldfield and the Pink Floyd , because theirs was the music of harrowing , lust-ridden parties and halitotic discos ; theirs was the music which made up the soundtrack of the most exciting moments of our lives . |
| 9 | Ford 's solos are the record 's most exciting moments and he makes the most of the time allotted to them . |
| 10 | Once more they mounted the dark steps of the building in the rue de Rivoli and once more the lift was motionless and the stairway light failed at the most inconvenient moments . |
| 11 | FLOORED GENIUS — The Best of Julian Cope and The Teardrop Explodes ( Island ) Spanning a decade of Cope 's wilfully erratic career , this potent compilation includes such brilliantly idiosyncratic moments as ‘ Reward ’ , ‘ World Shut Your Mouth ’ and ‘ Out of My Mind on Dope and Speed ’ . |
| 12 | It 's tempting to stop the drama at such morally dubious moments , but it is precisely here that we find the greatest learning opportunities . |
| 13 | But it has to be said ( it has to be said ! ) wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , typing , smiled to himself , it has to be said , wrote Harsnet , that if every project is likely , if not certain , to result in the addition of a little more shit to the shit that already exists , there is also the possibility , faint it is true but real , of the unexpected , and this is what delay makes possible and what the onward rush of time , the ever-increasing acceleration of time , perpetually denies , and in addition to the possibility of the unexpected appearing in the coils of delay , in addition to that , it has to be said , he wrote , that whatever the project , however trivial , however exalted , it will always say more than its maker knows , and , if genuine ( I will return to genuine ) , something will emerge which is distinct from whatever came before , from whatever elements went to make up the whole , a tone , a voice , which is not the tone or the voice of the maker but something else , something which , in my more optimistic moments , or perhaps my less clear-sighted moments , seems to be distinct from the shit though inseparable from it , a tone , a style , which links it to its maker 's other genuine ( I will return to genuine ) productions . |
| 14 | It 's as if he were giving a performance of some character he 's dreamed up , and his pale eyes wander in search of effect even in his apparently wildest moments . ‘ |
| 15 | Last time I had been a fool enough to close French doors and knew they were there only frantic moments later , when I saw blood spatter my wrists and hands , like a fly buzzing , like a bird beating against the see-through reality . |
| 16 | As a starting point the role can create highly dramatic moments , but be careful not to choose a role which then limits you . |
| 17 | It was as much their world as it was ours , and the recollection of other less co-fraternal moments such as 1776 or 1812 were displaced by these representations of shared origins . |
| 18 | Like them , too , in their less earthbound moments , he enjoyed the proud embracing of risk . |
| 19 | ‘ There are many who would gloss over their less successful moments , possum , but I do n't . |
| 20 | There were only rare moments of poise and calm as in Henry Herford 's Qui Tollis or the choruses opening Sanctus . |
| 21 | Mr Phillipson wrote : ‘ Hancock recalls that in the less traumatic moments he was struck by the rich red colour of some of the massive formations as they slipped by barely a metre from his wing-tips . ’ |
| 22 | His career was not without its less attractive moments , and it is sad that many fans will remember the famous picture in the 1981 Wisden of him kicking down the stumps after having an appeal refused in New Zealand almost as readily as they will recall his wonderful bowling ; yet even in dissent he was physically graceful , and the picture is positively balletic . |
| 23 | Their use of the ball out of defence — mainly through Brian Hamilton , with Willie Miller making himself available on the right — provided some of the game 's less jarring moments . |
| 24 | If he were to look at his life rationally — as in his most philosophical moments he liked to think he did — then there was no questioning the profile . |
| 25 | The most magical moments encompass both . |
| 26 | Herewith a sample of the most intriguing moments : Eat Yourself Fitter : ‘ What 's behind the fierce outspokenness against the work ethic in your lyrics ? ’ |
| 27 | But she did not like to admit the accidental , for if her birth was the effect of chance , so then was her escape ; the same arbitrary law that had produced her might well have blinded her at the most crucial moments of her life , and left her forever desiring , forever missing , never achieving , an eternal misfit . |
| 28 | Although you could re-use the tape for another recording , you may decide to keep it : it 's surprising how even the most unambitious personal video recordings often contain scenes , or just brief moments , which are worth preserving . |
| 29 | And the kind of thing they made of course erm were just short moments of motion , short silent films which showed action which lasted about a minute . |
| 30 | Vincent Canby in The New York Times felt that the film was often ‘ not terribly funny , at just those moments when it tries the hardest , and it sometimes wears its social concerns so blatantly that they look like warpaint ’ , but concluded that it ‘ is an important movie by one of our most interesting directors ’ . |