Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the moment " in BNC.

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1 There 's no way I can manage to come down at the moment . ’
2 As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised .
3 Toby had come back for the moment .
4 Is everything sorted out for the moment ?
5 An investigation is being carried out at the moment , not only by Her Majesty 's inspectorate of pollution but by the National Rivers Authority .
6 I 'm saying everything 's turned off at the moment , alright ?
7 As paragraph 16.1 of Code C makes clear , the police officer is obliged to charge a suspect as soon as he believes that there is sufficient evidence for a prosecution to succeed , but nobody could expect the police simply to cease work on the case and rely at the trial only on the material revealed up to the moment of charging .
8 They are all pumped up at the moment .
9 Erm if I give you a ring about Sunday or so I will have sorted out cos I 've got quite a few to sort out at the moment .
10 Cos er , Mark last week said er , he 'd been approached by a wedding to do a disco , he said well I ca n't it 's a Saturday , and then he said well , you know , where are you having the reception , said well we 're looking round at the moment .
11 I got sick of this , so I brought an old alarm clock and hung it around my neck and set it to go off at the moment he walked in one day .
12 Two shows on at the moment can help to correct this .
13 Work at Liss pond , for instance , was going on at the moment to cut back overhanging trees which were starving the water of oxygen .
14 As newspapers claimed the princess was undertaking the visit against her will , a Palace spokesman said : ‘ We have no intention of dignifying any of this speculation going on at the moment by making any comment . ’
15 This is very much in demand , with so many credit card thefts going on at the moment . "
16 There 's a number-plate racket going on at the moment .
17 I mean I want to start with , with pensions pay and er , basically what 's happening is that everyone 's suffering pay cuts er and er th th what the government is doing is , first of all is attacking the State pension scheme er , and it 's allowing , er , employers to continue to rip-off occupational pension schemes and er since it 's pay , and it 's our pay , we wan na make sure we control it and I do n't see why the employers should be allowed to continue to exploit er , us both at one , both in terms of the pay we get now and the pay we get when we retire , whether it be at sixty whether it be er , whenever we wish to er retire and er , I think it 's very important if the government is er committed to crime prevention , that it actually starts doing something about those for , those , those employers , and Maxwell has , has been er referred to already , he 's just the tip of this very big iceberg er , and er , up and down the country , people are suffering substantial thefts of pay er employers are systematically organizing wages snatches , that 's what this er pension fraud is all about , and it 's about time that our government actually got round er and tackled this very important corporate crime issue that 's actually going on at the moment and er , I think that it 's very important that we ensure that we 're involved in er managing our own pension sch p pension funds , and therefore we should be pushing through demands of the er th the , the charter for pension fund democracy , and ensuring er that the government actually listens to what we 're saying , and actually er comes up with answers why we can not have the right to control our pay cos I can I ca n't see an any reason that they come back and say why democracy , why they ca n't , why , why they wo n't allow us to have a greater say and control our own pension funds and that 's I think is a legitimate demand that we should be campaigning for , up and down the country .
18 The unions are presently consulting the membership as to how we should respond to this and that process is going on at the moment inside G M B the difficulty of course being the low level of organization .
19 ‘ Connected with what 's going on at the moment ? ’
20 That 's the sort of thing that 's going on at the moment .
21 There 's a lot of brinkmanship going on at the moment , a lot of er , horse-trading I dare say , going on as well .
22 Er , er , er , government of what 's going on at the moment
23 So what is going on at the moment that is affecting the management and organisation of our electronic records in local government ?
24 As you know doubt are aware of the importance that it is to us in that area of the and the current enquiry that 's going on at the moment .
25 I think there 's a very interesting as well as the , I mean the tragedy that we know of Bosnia Hercegovina , there 's a very complex business going on at the moment about the handling of an international situation .
26 Because because there 's so many there 's so many things that are going on at the moment that it it does take time .
27 Simon Cope of London-based commercial agent Gerald Eve , which is marketing the scheme jointly with Sanderson Townend & Gilbert , said : ‘ There has been as reasonable amount of interest in the past , and marketing has occasionally been stopped while discussions have taken place , but there are serious discussions going on at the moment . ’
28 Palace spokesmen continually insisted : ‘ We have no intention of dignifying any of this speculation going on at the moment . ’
29 what 's going on at the moment and where I am with it
30 erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country .
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