Example sentences of "[prep] the moment [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A skyhook , then an unbelieving lunge and there I was , like a shipwrecked sailor washed up on the shore of an uninhabitable island , safe for the moment but by no means home . |
| 2 | He decided to leave this one for the moment but logged the fact that Jennifer Morgan had still been interested in , and comfortable with , the man who had become her sister 's fiancé . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , thank you , Mr Glynn , that 's all for the moment but I may have more questions for you later . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll leave it at that for the moment but I may have to ask you that question again . |
| 5 | Now it may well be that the whole balance of things is that we 're generally okay for the moment but it seems to me that as time goes on and there 's a need to review plans and there 's a need to make further provision that it would be very very difficult indeed against a blanket policy as opposed to individual justifications around ind er individual settlements . |
| 6 | THE COST ‘ We have an initiative which is still under wraps for the moment but which we will be taking during the election campaign , ’ he said . |
| 7 | He seemed to have let out sufficient steam and resentment for the moment and turned to flirt obligingly with a middle-aged woman who touched his arm in pleased anticipation . |
| 8 | After the terror of the past twenty-four hours he was safe for the moment and in sight of victory . |
| 9 | Appropriate feedback is vital in the patient 's relearning process , so he receives praise only when it is deserved : if he fails in any way , the physiotherapist remains encouraging and positive about it , but shows him how and why he went wrong , or she may simply leave that task for the moment and return to it later , when the patient can concentrate and get it right . |
| 10 | Forget curls for the moment and concentrate on body and movement — the key word for the sexy gypsy look is VOLUME . |
| 11 | I cut them in half , discarding the pointed end for the moment and place them in a seed tray or wooden tomato box on layers of newspaper , narrow ends uppermost . |
| 12 | Let us leave her for the moment and go back to Matilda and her first day in Miss Honey 's class . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , pretending to address the whole class , ‘ let us leave sums for the moment and see if any of you have begun to learn to spell . |
| 14 | The teenage PODs lived for the moment and their songs , all crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash , reflected this . |
| 15 | Dolly , of course , had played the innocent for the moment and had left the money untouched . |
| 16 | So can we just ignore that for the moment and focus on the first sheet deliberately |
| 17 | However , I shall leave this problem to one side for the moment and concentrate instead on pursuing the general line of reductivist strategy , which remains unaffected by the choice of basic entities . |
| 18 | However , she put such thoughts aside for the moment and concentrated on the task in hand . |
| 19 | He had no need of this mewed , motionless falcon , waiting now only for the moment and the means to shake off her jesses . |
| 20 | We felt we had done all we could there for the moment and did n't want to get lazy . |
| 21 | The Forest park and ride attendant tells me they 're fairly busy but with still parking space site for the moment and there 's room to park on the Colwick Race Course and the Queens Drive site too and that 's service does offer free parking for yourself and your passengers and you can travel into and out of the city again for a pound . |
| 22 | For the moment and until Philips and their partners finally launch their product , CDTV has an opportunity to scoop a substantial segment of the market . |
| 23 | Clearly , for the moment and for some years to come , the prospects are slight . |
| 24 | Erm it maybe that in this alteration the erm it 's worth just spending a minute on whether B eight should just be kept out of the frame for the moment and it 's something that gets dealt with at a later time when more policies are in play . |
| 25 | There was something about the moment and the intimacy of the setting that was driving Merrill to a sharp crest of awareness . |
| 26 | The delegates gave an overwhelming vote in favour of retaining the title " The British Deaf and Dumb Association " , not just on the spur of the moment but after the matter had been chewed over up and down the country . |
| 27 | One must understand Mr Patten was saying that in the heat of the moment but it 's a very unfortunate description to make of anyone trying to do a reasonable job . |
| 28 | For example , if you use the words , ‘ I am resigning ’ , that unambiguous statement is likely to be taken at face value unless perhaps you are speaking in the heat of the moment or under duress . |
| 29 | Sent off no less than 20 times in his career , Johnson is a surprisingly quiet and tender man who lashed out at opponents , either on the spur of the moment or in the heart-felt belief that rational behaviour was for lesser talents . |
| 30 | They may have to act on the spur of the moment and have no time to reflect and be bound , therefore , to arrest to prevent escape ; but where there is no danger of the person who has ex hypothesi aroused their suspicion that he probably is an ‘ offender ’ attempting to escape , they should make all presently practicable enquiries from persons present or immediately accessible who are likely to be able to answer their enquiries forthwith . |