Example sentences of "moment the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 2 | Do n't chop off all the deadheads in your border the moment the flowers fade . |
| 3 | This is always dangerous because at that moment the glider has insufficient speed to allow for safe recovery and landing . |
| 4 | One moment the tow is quite normal and the next , his aircraft is diving vertically into the ground . |
| 5 | Be ready to open the airbrakes fully the moment the wheel touches the ground and then keep it straight and keep the wings level . |
| 6 | Similarly the delicate and subtle nuances of such ballets as Ashton 's A Month in the Country , Robbins ' Dances at a Gathering and MacMillan 's Song of the Earth are successfully conveyed and capture the audience 's attention from the moment the curtain rises by the impetus , rhythm , dimension and variety of dance . |
| 7 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 8 | At the moment the academy has a nearmonopoly of the subject , and I would like to see it broken , in a recognition of the traditional cultural truth that good criticism can be written by poets and novelists , and indeed by people whose professional concern is not with literature at all . |
| 9 | At the moment the presentation of the palaces tends to be rather plain and unimaginative . |
| 10 | But instead the ball whipped unplayablly along the floor and in another moment the man from Adelaide was celebrating with a grim , pale smile one of the biggest upsets of recent years . |
| 11 | This you realised , the moment the driver turned to give the camera a typically vague , rumbustious salute , was the first programme in Floyd 's American Pie ( BBC 2 ) . |
| 12 | At the moment the product is restricted to interest rates and to medium or big corporate clients . |
| 13 | At that moment the terms of the truce between the Downing Street neighbours will be conveniently forgotten . |
| 14 | At that moment the politics of the world was exciting . |
| 15 | There was Emil Brunner one of the two leading Christian thinkers on the Continent of Europe ; there was Reinhold Niebuhr , one of the two leading Christian thinkers from the United States ; there was Visser t'Hooft , the Dutchman who built up the World Council of Churches ; there was J. H. Oldham , at that moment the leading thinker about Christian society in the British Isles ; and there was Bernard Manning , the Congregationalist historian who was a friend of the Ramsey family in Cambridge . |
| 16 | Yet he is not to die : at the very last moment the image jumps slightly and then we note Custer 's singular absence at the centre of the famous circle , which at that moment begins to break up . |
| 17 | For a silent moment the three of them sat there . |
| 18 | So , leaving aside for a moment the difficult question of whether to accept the kind of association between kinship system and technological level postulated by Morgan , Marx , and Engels , it is not surprising that modern anthropology reveals no such association between technology and kinship terms . |
| 19 | Wexford switched off the light and for a moment the room seemed very dark . |
| 20 | Wexford waited patiently , for he guessed that for a moment the man was totally unable to speak . |
| 21 | From the moment the lead vehicles broke cover , they could see the enemy headquarters , halted at the edge of a wood . |
| 22 | At that moment the men detailed as River Watchers radioed that a fast-moving vessel was coming downstream , and the Safety Officer , not at all sure of the newcomer 's identity or intentions , fired an illuminating parachute flare over the nearly complete bridge to warn of the obstruction across its bows . |
| 23 | For a moment the ghosts hovered around Klara-Lettkin-Strasse until Bodo exorcised them . |
| 24 | To make a character worse than oneself it is only necessary to release imaginatively from control some of the bad passions which , in real life , are always straining at the leash ; the Satan , the Iago , the Becky Sharp , within each of us , is always there and only too ready , the moment the leash is slipped , to come out and have in our books that holiday we try to deny them in life . |
| 25 | Failure has driven some in the past to tears , but for the moment the 22-year-old Andrew Hare , from Sleaford , Lincolnshire , is quietly showing the bright-eyed optimism of the first-timer . |
| 26 | Failure has driven some in the past to tears , but for the moment the 22-year-old Andrew Hare , from Sleaford , Lincolnshire , is quietly showing the bright-eyed optimism of the first-timer . |
| 27 | At the moment the defender organising the line in a flat defence finds it easy to catch an opponent offside . |
| 28 | Yet despite that authoritative vindication , the moment the PLO makes what might at first sight appear a slight regression to its old-style militancy , the US promptly joins the Israeli ‘ extremists ’ in pronouncing it a serious setback for the peace process . |
| 29 | Ignore for a moment the contradiction in the Prime Minister 's simultaneous espousal of an essentially unaccountable German Bundesbank system for future European monetary union and her insistence that the Delors plan for EMU violates Parliamentary control of EC decision making . |
| 30 | Although for the moment the army is the darling of the people , its closeness to the now constitutionally-entrenched council will afford the military great authority . |