Example sentences of "[art] moment of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accused , the finder , was not guilty of theft because at the moment of appropriation the coins were not property belonging to another . |
| 2 | From that revelatory moment when the box of white paper is opened until the moment of exposure the exchange of light onto receptive surface has begun . |
| 3 | Even if at the moment of decision the patient is fit to make it , his will may have been overborne by the undue influence of another , or by deception or misinformation of a significant kind . |
| 4 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 5 | And from the moment of birth the child is learning -learning to know its own body and bodily needs , learning to distinguish itself from the world around it , learning something about its relationships to things and people in that world . |
| 6 | It is important that at the moment of execution the attacker looks into the kick to note its direction , while maintaining a high-guard position with his hands . |
| 7 | At the moment of impact the kinetic energy possessed by the hammer is proportional to its mass times the square of its velocity . |
| 8 | From the moment of conception the physical development of a human being follows a steady progression that spans the moment of birth — however that moment may be defined . |
| 9 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 10 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |