Example sentences of "not [prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , but do n't tell him that — not for the moment , anyway . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Not for the moment , anyway . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I do not see that anything else will do , not for the moment . |
| 4 | To get rid of such furniture because it happens not to fit into present arrangements is rather like pulling down one wing of the house concerned just because it is not for the moment in use . |
| 5 | Hope springs — but not for the moment The outlook for the housing market is modestly optimistic — but any initial pick-up will be in higher turnover , not in higher prices |
| 6 | ‘ Not for the moment , Lieutenant . |
| 7 | We will not for the moment consider the suitability of the procedures for bringing complaints of breach of duty to court , though the existence of well-informed plaintiffs with standing and motivation to sue is clearly an essential part of any system of control that is ultimately dependent on judicial sanctions . |
| 8 | That would be a catastrophe , a scandal would surely follow his knowing anything and he must n't be allowed to suspect any danger at all , not for the moment , otherwise they 'd probably murder the boy . |
| 9 | It does not for the moment wish to take on additional responsibilities in respect of criminal legal aid , means assessments and determinations and taxations of costs , given that it is not at present in a position to do the work more effectively . |
| 10 | He did not for the moment notice Auguste . |
| 11 | Not for the moment . |
| 12 | No , not for the moment . |
| 13 | But not — not for the moment , please ! ’ |
| 14 | Mahmoud , incoherent with fury , could not for the moment say what it was . |
| 15 | That has now decided that it will have one meeting of it 's council a year which will be it 's A G M , it has not for the moment elected an executive committee . |
| 16 | ‘ No , not for the moment . |
| 17 | ‘ Not for the moment . ’ |
| 18 | Milan Tomsa , the student strike leader at the Prague Film School , is not at the moment much concerned about the future prospects of the Czech cinema . |
| 19 | ‘ Not at the moment . ’ |
| 20 | He would check it , if he needed to , but he could not at the moment see why Morgan would have wanted to kill the daughter to whom he had plainly been so devoted . |
| 21 | ‘ Not at the moment . |
| 22 | These included higher-than-average proportions of women , pensioners , people in lower socio-economic groups , people not at the moment using credit ( although prepared to ) and — as might be expected — people admitting to a poor understanding of interest rates . |
| 23 | Indeed these three banks have special opportunities for widening the credit horizon of people who do not at the moment have bank accounts . |
| 24 | " Not at the moment , sir , but I soon will have . " |
| 25 | We can not at the moment reconstruct with certainty what the ordering of relevant environments in EModE might have been , or whether it was always nasals that were decisive : as Lowland Scots preserves evidence of a raising rule before dentals/alveolars ( for example in glad , gather , Saturday ) , it is not impossible that hendes , bend attest to pre-dental raisings . |
| 26 | Since it is not at the moment clear how general this type of sociolinguistic pattern might be , any attempt at explanation is premature ; however , it is probably possible to relate the narrow range characteristic of the higher-status speakers ' pattern to parallel structural tendencies in languages which have undergone processes of standardization ( Milroy and Milroy 1985a , chapters 1 and 2 ) . |
| 27 | I do n't like it here very much , not at the moment , I said , no doubt sounding like a dangerous recluse and a chauvinist to boot . |
| 28 | It was useless ; there was no way he could master him , not at the moment anyway . |
| 29 | That s right — not at the moment . |
| 30 | ‘ Not at the moment , no , ’ said Constance . |