Example sentences of "at the [adj] moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a fallacy at the present moment to believe that there are any quick cures for our monetary difficulties , least of all joining the ERM ( European exchange rate mechanism ) . |
| 2 | Either we assume that the whole universe is at the present moment in a very improbable state . |
| 3 | Another point which may be considered under the heading of primary and secondary sources is the practice , very popular at the present moment , of giving verbatim statements made by respondents in interviews . |
| 4 | The Icicle Works do n't appear to be particularly active at the present moment and Ian McNabb was recently to be spotted playing a solo gig at Camden 's Underground Club . |
| 5 | A terrific industrial upheaval at the present moment might be dangerous from the standpoint of a democratic People 's Peace . |
| 6 | And now , at the present moment , my men are securing flotation bags and lifting slings to the plane . |
| 7 | Look , what you 've got at the present moment , Private Nobody , is a badly sprained ankle . |
| 8 | At the present moment , the archive system runs in Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyteme AG environments under Unix with the OSF/Motif graphical user interface . |
| 9 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 10 | At the present moment one can think of Chaliapin and Battistini among the men , Calvé , Bahr-Mildenburg and Ackte among the women . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Patrick McIntyre , a South London publican and former New Scotland Yard detective who wrote a regular crime column for the South London Chronicle , was another who cast doubt on the Hooligan panic , accusing newspapers of being in their ‘ silly season ’ and of taking the matter up merely ‘ as a suitable and sensational means of filling their columns at the present moment ’ . |
| 12 | When Scouting for Boys first appeared in a series of fortnightly instalments in 1908 , the fly-leaf of the final issue was already claiming that ‘ at the present moment something between 500,000 and 700,000 young men are interested in this scheme , which will come into full swing about April ’ . |
| 13 | Matthew Arnold echoed the belief in 1869 that the social system was groaning under the weight of ‘ those vast , miserable , unmanageable masses of sunken people — one pauper at the present moment , for every nineteen of us ’ . |
| 14 | Lamenting ‘ the feeling of morbid sympathy with criminals which at the present moment undoubtedly exists ’ , The Times ( 18 November 1856 ) had arrived at a sorry conclusion : ‘ Philanthropy , like crinoline , has become the fashion . ’ |
| 15 | Cos it 's not actually working algebraic that calculator at the present moment I do n't know what you 've got it programmed in What you 've got it at but it 's not working algebraic . |
| 16 | Whether Skelton needs to expand at the present moment is not for me to say . |
| 17 | In November Nizan correctly assessed the situation when he commented : " At the present moment in time , the policies of the fascist government are being thwarted only by the diplomacy of the USSR and the heroic resistance of the Spanish people " . |
| 18 | All that 's , you see there 's , there 's a few comes at the , even at the present moment , there 's some come down from every year . |
| 19 | Just what I need right at the present moment ! ’ |
| 20 | This has no great significance at the present moment when both Departments are housed within the Register House complex and only small inconvenience and delay result . |
| 21 | ‘ I must confess ’ , Stamfordham wrote to St Loe Strachey , editor of the Spectator , ' … at the present moment I feel that His Majesty should do his utmost not to hamper in any way Ramsay MacDonald in , what we must all admit will be , a task of almost incalculable magnitude . |
| 22 | His leadership was never less disputed than at the present moment . |
| 23 | Mr Chairman I feel a bit like an aircraft that 's to come down to Leeds er er Bradford Airport rather than Teeside at the present moment . |
| 24 | Erm we are in the current process of reviewing our own or altering our own structure plan , the first alter alteration is going through consultation at the present moment and we 're estimating a need within that period of of actually fifteen thousand which is marginally above the regional planning guidance . |
| 25 | Er our only problem is that some of our housing is concentrated in rather large blocks , and that does put pressure looking for v var variety of sites in the county and we are erm getting a lot of objection for some potential development sites in our area at the present moment . |
| 26 | Me know the answer ! , in contrast , both the extra-verbal person evoked by me and the generalized person incorporated within the infinitive know as the support of a merely potential knowing are situated in the present , which explains the absence of to and the fact that this sentence can be used to call into question the possibility that the speaker has the knowledge at the present moment . |
| 27 | Thus in He can sing the incidence of " sing " to " he " exists as a potential in the present : the person referred to possesses at the present moment the capacity of realizing this action . |
| 28 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 29 | So it 's by no means only er , arising from the erm , need to get on with the business of the council , some of the work that we 're facing at the present moment has been forced on us er , through no fault of our own because of Government action . |
| 30 | off that , er I think several of us believe that the complexities of trust law at the present moment can make it very difficult if one agreed . |