Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the moment [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Noticing that her hands are shaking and knowing that he has noticed she forces herself to act cool , not daring for the moment to analyse her disquiet lest she is incapable of handling the reason . |
| 2 | So what I 'm proposing is that we write to er Mick and erm Richard , asking what powers and responsibilities that they propose at the moment to devolve to Southwell . |
| 3 | It seems to me however that the terms presumption and exception as national guidance stands at the moment go together in the context of greenbelt . |
| 4 | Dexter , for all his patience and intelligence in most matters , faltered when it came to the moment to arrest the people he investigated . |
| 5 | I agree that where we 're living at the moment does n't exactly lend itself to being a family home . |
| 6 | His two main sponsors have dropped out of racing for the moment leaving him chasing a £3,000 shortfall . |
| 7 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 8 | This office is 100 per cent dependent on imports and a high percentage of our fibres is re-exported , so the kind of exchange rate troubles we have got at the moment does n't help . |
| 9 | Pressure from Scottish fishing interests has led the government to abandon for the moment plans to add the basking shark to the protected species list . |
| 10 | Money is being raised at the moment to provide houses for those who come out first . |
| 11 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |
| 12 | And they know what you 're doing at the moment do they whilst you 're not serving them ice-cream . |
| 13 | Some printers are attracted to dry-ice blasting because the cleaning processes they use at the moment require volatile chlorinated solvents and dangerous methyl ethyl ketones ( MEKs ) — not very environmentally friendly . |
| 14 | I think at the moment suffice to say we wanted a product that would give ourselves and our users total choice and total flexibility . |
| 15 | The repeal of s39 does not reduce the impact of this decision ( since partnership with unqualified persons remains for the moment prohibited by the rules of the profession ) , though the new procedures for the issue and replacement of practising certificates may make accidental disqualification less common . |
| 16 | For Henri , the desire for French control of Scotland had for the moment given way to Valois need to counter an extension of Hapsburg power ; and Mary was as useful for the one as for the other . |
| 17 | The old abrasiveness over the community budget had for the moment disappeared . |
| 18 | The latter had for the moment deserted him . |
| 19 | Lord Grubb was an ancient hereditary peer who kept up eagerly with the times and was trying at the moment to unlock his capital to set up a chain of waffle shops . |
| 20 | We 're trying at the moment to get in non-conformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisation that they 've been involved in , or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 21 | We 're trying at the moment to get in Nonconformist church records , or at least to get copies of them if the churches do n't want to let us have them , because they 're quite important for the nineteenth century history of East Sussex , and erm really any help that erm that we can get from the general public who 've got old documents relating to their properties , minutes of any organisations that they 've been involved in or that used to exist and that 's now collapsed , anything like that that can add to the history of the county , we 're always very grateful to receive . |
| 22 | It does at the moment according to the reports , everything is aimed at the control and the command network and also and obviously at the military targets , so we 'll just have to wait and see |
| 23 | Erm the calculations that we have at the moment take on board the twenty five percent back in migration as proposed in the housing figures . |
| 24 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |
| 25 | Now I 'm minded at the moment to say , look , why should we pay a hundred pounds and pay all the , all the , all the refurbishment of that site , because they wo n't be able to develop it , there 's no , there 's no access to that land . |