Example sentences of "[conj] for the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | So there I am in some terra incognita by the name of Stoke Newington , which Stuart assures me is the next district where house prices are due to display tumescence , but where for the moment there dwelleth men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders . |
| 2 | I think we 've only got four which er this aircraft can fly or for the moment the three tornado F three bases and the one jaguar base er is the ministry says they 're looking at cutting back on those ? |
| 3 | ‘ When you 're surfing big Waimea , you ca n't be thinking about anything — except for the moment . |
| 4 | Nor for the moment can I think of anyone else in the entire Administrative Grade of the Civil Service who does . |
| 5 | The owners say that they are so new to the game that for the moment they are selling everything because they do not know what will eventually prove profitable . |
| 6 | Steve Richardson was also pleased with his 71 , which lifted him above both Woosnam and Olazabal , who was in no mood to discuss a game that for the moment is off . |
| 7 | There are a few extra types ( W , hotter than O ; and R , N and S , cooler than M ) but these are so uncommon that for the moment we need not worry about them . |
| 8 | The phrasing is ambiguous , perhaps deliberately so , but suggests that for the moment only surveillance was intended . |
| 9 | Presumably Philip judged that for the moment he had no means of putting pressure on either Henry or Richard which would be both legitimate and effective . |
| 10 | They agreed that for the moment they would say nothing about it to Ebenezer . |
| 11 | As he had not decided what purpose their relationship should have , he decided that for the moment they should meet as little as possible . |
| 12 | It 's important to be clear that for the moment we are talking about the purchase of places in the private and voluntary sectors : in-house purchasing is not with us yet . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm afraid that for the moment , yes , the company would prefer you to resign . ’ |
| 14 | It was agreed that for the moment one Model 30 , re-allocated from ( 2 ) above , will be provided for pool use by all Associates , to be sited in the room set aside for Associates . |
| 15 | The phrasing is ambiguous , perhaps deliberately so , but suggests that for the moment only surveillance was intended . |
| 16 | Sara , sitting opposite him , on the other side of the solicitor 's desk , some weeks after her aunt 's death , was so affronted that for the moment she could not speak . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All the same , Wickham had been invited to have the flat searched and might sometime do so , although for the moment he saw no justification for it . |
| 19 | He himself had other plans , although for the moment he was keeping them fairly close to his chest . |
| 20 | Whatever is ultimately decided by the boards and the UKCC it is still in your own and your patients interests for you to undertake some form of formal updating , even if for the moment this is left to your own and your employer 's discretion . |
| 21 | If for the moment we assume it to be real and unrepeated , then all other eigenvalues have smaller moduli . |
| 22 | He could please folk when he wanted to , and for the moment he did . |
| 23 | While Poole was urging him to remain true above all to poetry , Coleridge still had no sense of a purely poetic , or even literary , vocation , and for the moment could offer only two vague plans for the future , ‘ the first impracticable — the second not likely to succeed ’ : he could ‘ make a portly Quarto ’ by translating all the works of Schiller , then set up a school at 100 guineas a head , or he could ‘ abjure Politics & carnal literature ’ altogether and become a dissenting parson . |
| 24 | The social and political implications of Gandhi 's quest for Truth will also be dealt with in later chapters and for the moment we shall confine ourselves to such questions as how he goes about acquiring glimpses of absolute Truth and how he knows that it is absolute Truth he has actually caught a glimpse of . |
| 25 | He repeated once more , for Theo 's benefit , his fateful words on that summer day : ‘ Kee , I love you as myself … ’ and her reply , ‘ No , never never ’ , which fell on him like a death sentence , ‘ and for the moment it absolutely crushed me to the ground ’ . |
| 26 | He has , he says , been ‘ overwhelmed ’ by the kindness and support he has received , and for the moment is relishing not working a 14-hour day and seeing more of his wife and four children . |
| 27 | Wpc Jones was in fact several yards away and for the moment unaware of any change in the situation . |
| 28 | The number of very young babies available has decreased and for the moment the Society has reluctantly decided to close its list to applicants seeking straightforward babies under one year . |
| 29 | We shall come back to Bultmann and Gogarten later , and for the moment concentrate on the line struck out upon by Brunner and , in particular , by Barth . |
| 30 | Organisationally , the investigation was under control and for the moment the focal point was Farnborough . |