Example sentences of "is [prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't particularly like the set up as it is as the moment . |
| 2 | The element of exceptionalism , and a welcome one , was that , in contrast to France , Italy and Germany , Britain is for the moment at least free of a significant right-wing racist element . |
| 3 | I 'll have her brought down here to Florence as soon as she can be moved but we 'll have to leave her where she is for the moment — in fact , put me through to Pontino again now , will you ? |
| 4 | This is for the moment on show at the Museum of English Naive Art in Bath , and will be given a brief airing in London from 18 to 24 November at the Olympia Fine Art and Antiques Fair . |
| 5 | Primary prevention is before the moment of conception , when parents ‘ at risk ’ of giving birth to a mentally handicapped child can be advised of the risks . |
| 6 | More , the fact that this being , Homo sapiens , is from the moment of birth aware of itself in relation to others , and experiences and defines itself in such a relational mode , suggests the universal , pre-cultural basis of a relational concept that appears to occur in one form or another in all human cultural systems : the complementarity of Self and Other ; Us and Them . |
| 7 | ‘ I see stars , ’ she whispered into his ear , clutching him tightly , her eyes shut , all-seeing in the darkness , understanding earth and time and life and what it is in the moment 's joy . |
| 8 | It is easy to sympathise with a traveller who writes : ‘ I have seen a quantity of things here — churches , palaces , statues , fountains and pictures ; and my brain is at the moment like the portfolio of an architect , or a print-shop , or a common-place book . ’ |
| 9 | Local cells of the new party will be formed by 10 November , but what happens to the rest of the apparat is at the moment anybody 's guess . |
| 10 | The ancilliary workers have accepted 9 per cent , the doctors 8 per cent and certainly my own union is at the moment balloting to decide on industrial action over the 6 ½ per cent offered to Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers . |
| 11 | SELL-THROUGH , as the retail sector of the video market is obscurely known , is at the moment very much a bull market , and there has lately been a growing shift to releasing more recent movies in this way . |
| 12 | Of course this is a self-destructive and lonely ‘ solution' ; Lucy herself admits that she has got caught up in a pattern of starving and bingeing which she is at the moment unable to see a way out of . |
| 13 | Barbed wire might well become more common than it is at the moment . |
| 14 | I find it appalling that Warwick , who are now well established in this country , are not apparently concerned with after sales service to the extent that it is at the moment impossible to get spare parts without sending off to Germany . |
| 15 | From these a consensus has emerged , which is probably reliable , that the main areas in which there are likely to be substantial effects due to new technology are in the engineering industry , with the increased use of CAD and computer-aided manufacturing ( CAM ) , and the use of robots ; in offices through office automation , in which the use of word processors with or without linkages via networks and data bases to form paperless offices is predicted to bring substantial improvements in productivity , though the effects on skills is at the moment quite unclear ; and in the computer industry itself , where there is substantially increased demand for software engineers . |
| 16 | Oldham boss Joe Royle said : ‘ Scoring goals has not normally been a problem for us but it is at the moment . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My thinking is at the moment that we are likely to be without him . |
| 18 | We are going to a tribunal on Tuesday to buy a keeper with a lot of potential — but that 's all he is at the moment , a lot of potential . ’ |
| 19 | There is at the moment , considerable confusion over the significance of the search for permanence in a placement . |
| 20 | Readers who have visited the ground will probably well understand the feelings of adjoining home-owners in what is at the moment a prime residential area . |
| 21 | Nick Serota , director of the Tate , is at the moment coming in for a lot of criticism because he changes the displays every year . |
| 22 | ‘ The country is at the moment run by the Conservatives and they have so few votes in Scotland it should bring to their attention that there 's something not quite right in this situation . |
| 23 | It shows how really fragile he is at the moment , I suppose . |
| 24 | I 'd like , I think as it is at the moment is erm is superb ! |
| 25 | If they 'd done so , if they 'd insisted that local authorities did provide the sites they are supposed to provide I believe there would now be sufficient pitches for all travellers and that they would n't be used for illegal parking erm at the level that there is at the moment . |
| 26 | ‘ If it was necessary to come to a decision on this aspect , I would have to say that , in my judgment , to go from the grandmother 's house where she is at the moment and leaving the job she has in Birkenhead with the Social Services Department , to Canada with no work and no money and living on charity and food banks , would be an intolerable situation for the child . |
| 27 | It is at the moment in certain situations |
| 28 | As one of McLaughlin 's respondents , who had been caring for her mother for seven years , pointed out : ‘ Well that really is a nonsense because the amount it is at the moment compared to anybody that 's had the chance of a full-time job , you 're talking of £24 as opposed to a job of about £98 ’ ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 48 ) . |
| 29 | The picture tries to portray Charles ‘ as he is at the moment — someone who cares about the world around him , somebody who has become a very caring person . |
| 30 | And it is at the moment because nobody 's buying any goods . |