Example sentences of "and for the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could please folk when he wanted to , and for the moment he did . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Wpc Jones was in fact several yards away and for the moment unaware of any change in the situation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Organisationally , the investigation was under control and for the moment the focal point was Farnborough . |
| 10 | Hardly anyone had expected the Japanese to surrender quite so quickly and , when they did and for the moment , as far as the Allies were concerned , hardly anything happened . |
| 11 | Events in Vietnam , in many ways comparable although obviously complicated by the factor of French colonialism , were of infinitely less interest and for the moment seemed to require only a definition of attitudes rather than acts of policy . |
| 12 | It did indeed prove a momentous day — and a momentous speech as well : but it lay in a future that none could foresee , and for the moment all that poor Hazel could do was to turn aside with the disappointed feeling that after all , his part in the crossing of the heather had not really been a very important one . |
| 13 | Her mood of euphoria was infectious and for the moment anyway Harry knew that he was every bit as happy about this new relationship as the girl in his arms . |
| 14 | The news she had just received from Dorothy 's doctor had come as a dreadful shock , and for the moment she could not trust herself to speak . |
| 15 | Whatever was to happen in the future , she loved and was loved and for the moment that was enough . |
| 16 | I have used the last of the old chemicals , and for the moment I am Henry Jekyll again . |
| 17 | No one mentioned Nigel , her ousted predecessor , and for the moment Lisa decided to steer clear of that subject . |
| 18 | Complete silence , for the rain had ceased and for the moment the storm seemed to have moved away . |
| 19 | Standing awkwardly in the doorway of what was obviously the family room , and for the moment unnoticed by the three people present , she stared round her . |
| 20 | There is a standards battle currently being fought and for the moment it looks almost as if consumers may soon be confronted with a variety of competing , incompatible television systems in different regions of the world . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I have a degree , but I have no idea what career I want , if any , and for the moment I 'm taking undemanding jobs and writing poetry . ’ |
| 22 | Not Devlin , not our intentions regarding Steiner and for the moment , no mention of Belle Ile . |
| 23 | And for the moment you are not watching on a colleague , because you are not working for M16 but directly for Winston . |
| 24 | She walked through into the Lancaster Room again , where Phil Aldrich was still scribbling away on the hotel 's notepaper ; and for the moment ( as Sheila stood in the doorway ) looking up with his wonted patience and nodding mildly as Janet propounded her latest views on the injustice of the tour 's latest delay . |
| 25 | In oil services , in the future there could be further major acquisitions but er , over the past three years we 've er , undertaken a whole series of acquisitions and er , and for the moment I would n't see anything er , in the , in the major line there , although you never know if some , even sometimes opportunities you are n't capable of creating erm , er , because the er , situation is not right er , do occur and I would n't rule it out but erm , er , we have n't erm any major acquisition er , on , on , on the carpet there at the moment . |