Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Idly I wonder if she 'd have done the same thing had the play been Shakespearean : ‘ Now is the winter of our discontent … but leaving aside discontent for the moment I want you all to put your hands together for good old birthday boy Barry in Box B. All together now , Happy Birthday to you … ’ |
| 2 | That put her out of the fight for the moment . |
| 3 | On Jan. 29 President César Gaviria Trujillo made a fresh offer , extending an earlier decree to include crimes committed up to the time of surrender , and on Jan. 30 the Extraditables , maintaining that the police had in fact killed Diana Turbay , announced that they were reconsidering their latest declaration of war and would abstain from violent action for the moment . |
| 4 | Well , let's keep that to the back of our mind for the moment , cos we 're gon na , er see some answers to that along the way , this morning , I trust . |
| 5 | My mother pinpoints the downfall of western civilisation as the moment when a teenager turned on a transistor radio during a screening of The Robe . |
| 6 | And then you have to what you 'll have to do erm do n't bother to change the telly for the moment . |
| 7 | I thought she might add , ‘ And she 's bloody well going to wear it ’ , but my mother had said her piece for the moment . |
| 8 | She saw her tutor 's enquiring look and dismissed her benefactor for the moment . |
| 9 | ‘ Back in the safe and I 've got the key for the moment . |
| 10 | I could , of course , have added that some of those crowded around the door were likely to end up like Conor unless they backed away from their relentless hedonism , from their incessant living for the moment . |
| 11 | Quite naturally , the islanders wondered if harmonious timber wolf existence included picking off one or two tasty schoolchildren as a light snack between main meals of venison , and strangely the idea has been put to one side for the moment . |
| 12 | Leaving the question of demand to one side for the moment , there are two rather different points about this account which should be raised briefly . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Leaving this central issue to one side for the moment , we should add here that there are major critiques which can be made of Marxist theories , critiques on the theories ' own terms . |
| 15 | If we set the poem 's rubric , which informs us that we shall be reading a fabliau , on one side for the moment , we could in the first stanza be looking at a tail-rhyme romance — a type familiar in English literature from the fourteenth century . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , setting these consequences to one side for the moment , Friedman 's analysis did appear to countenance the possibility of pursuing expansionary , neutral or contractionary demand management policies . |
| 17 | Okay , so we 're going to concentrate on the left hand side for the moment . |
| 18 | I think she should mentally wrap him in a parcel , tie it tight with string and put it on one side for the moment . |
| 19 | The isolation of the moment , and its total disconnexion from all other moments , gave her a sensation of quite unfamiliar ease . |
| 20 | A recent critic complained about the ‘ clichés , the daft , ghosted ‘ star names ’ columns , the silly photos ( remember Ian Botham as ‘ Rambo ’ ? ) , the creation of heroes and villains , the concentration on the star or the result of the moment , the search for conflict , the trivialization of sporting women , the insularity ( beyond Dover , forget it ) , the emphasis on spectating rather than participating , the dearth of analysis , the marginal treatment of those who do n't quite ‘ make it ’ . |
| 21 | Nor were they in Europe , where it took off in a big way as the cult movie of the moment , especially in countries where the dire American dialogue could be dubbed over or subtitled with more viable prose . |
| 22 | The chilling photograph of the moment of her capsize appears in the book , and still haunts anyone who has contact with the sea or with the lifeboat service . |
| 23 | In the confusion of the moment she agreed and led the way upstairs , wishing she had dreamed up a reason to turn him away . |
| 24 | Alice came to help him , perhaps under the impression it was Alfred or the confusion of the moment , and earned herself a stinging rebuff , thus beginning another altercation . |
| 25 | This is basically a protective action , an attempt to save the eyes from possible danger , but it has also become a way of reducing the unbearable tension of the moment . |
| 26 | The tension of the moment was broken by a groan from the corner . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm sorry if it did n't provide a job for you , ’ he said , relieved , and looked round for Amanda , who had used the surface tension of the moment to walk away . |
| 28 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 29 | As this was fastened and he was made ready for departure , the prince for the first time seemed ill-at-ease — as if only then did he sense the poignancy of the moment and was after all loath to go . |
| 30 | The buoyancy of the moment led also to the rejection of the nominee of the six foreign ministers for the presidency of the Assembly . |