Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll have a word with her when she 's awake , she 's still on a third dream I should think at the moment but she 's er , certainly good talking , I could , I could try and get her without her knowing about it and see what happens , just dinner time I 'll take it down and try it , oh you 're gon na take it round Steve 's ai n't you ? |
| 2 | And nobody Even the church I mean I know the church ca n't agree on anything at the moment , we 're sitting here just down the road of course , the general synod of the church of whatsit and the archbishop of thingummybob is sitting there over their muesli and cornflakes I should imagine at the moment , or a late brunch , erm n not saying anything . |
| 3 | Alright makes his confession , let's assume at the moment that it is admissible and gives evidence . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , let's assume for the moment that 's what happened . |
| 5 | To take comfort in the simple truth about Hard Times : that however rotten things might seem at the moment , they will most assuredly seem altogether quaint fifty years from now . |
| 6 | And if you 're coming in towards Oxford City Centre on the A40 , coming in towards the Headington roundabout , you 'll find at the moment that it 's er about a mile and a half to two miles of very slow moving traffic approaching the roundabout itself . |
| 7 | Actually , I could throw at the moment but I could n't afford the shoulder seizing up the next day and suddenly finding I 'm out for three months . |
| 8 | I could I could buy at the moment |
| 9 | If so , there was nothing he could do for the moment . |
| 10 | All he could do for the moment was to stand in the doorway and look about him . |
| 11 | In the spring of 1956 both London and Washington decided that all they could do for the moment was to allow the Aswan offer to " wither on the vine " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Erm so erm that 's the one I 'd recommend at the moment . |
| 14 | This separation between decision-making and actual implementation might appear rigid , but in fact de Gaulle was flexible enough to recognize that conditions could change between the moment of decision and the moment of implementation and that sometimes these changes were fundamental enough to require a modification of the original decision . |
| 15 | You 're too big now , more 's the pity — and , in any case , I do n't think it would answer at the moment . ’ |
| 16 | Any Marxist revolution would simply generate a new ruling class : ‘ The socialists might conquer , but not socialism , which would perish in the moment of its adherents ’ triumph' ( Michels , 1959 , p. 391 ) . |
| 17 | He has been convicted of crime , and we shall assume for the moment that he has not behaved himself within the meaning of these words . |
| 18 | But there had been little doubt he would go from the moment Micheal Hurley had called during the Thanksgiving holiday to say he had at last been funded for a major operation in the Middle East and would Coleman be interested in going back to Cyprus as a DEA contractor ? |
| 19 | the goblet would burst at the moment of contact . |
| 20 | Now , well now it 's just now we 've got nobody who , who score actually really scores goals except Thomas I would say at the moment . |
| 21 | Have you ever noticed that when Christians speak about how they became followers of Jesus , nearly everyone will concentrate on the moment when they faced that crisis , and made their decision ? |
| 22 | Duty is what no-one else will do at the moment . |
| 23 | Therefore , if the completion of ( what we will call for the moment ) a ‘ unit of information ’ is important in sentence processing , rather than the completion of a clause , monitoring latencies for the word cat should not be significantly different in sentences ( 1a ) and ( 1b ) . |
| 24 | I merely want to open all the doors as far as they will go at the moment . ’ |
| 25 | We can not say what the occupation of Germany will involve at the moment , or what will be our obligations in the East and at home . |
| 26 | But I 'll let , let's imagine for the moment that it 's still that six fifty . |
| 27 | So that we can wait for the moment when she sees you well enough to be sure whether you are Liam or not . |
| 28 | It is no sin that all you can feel at the moment is trapped , not by Harry , even though that is what you think , but by your own reaction to him . |
| 29 | The best we can do at the moment , until the ‘ organic revolution ’ hits the high street , is to eat foods as near as possible to their natural state — not out of tins and packets . |
| 30 | I do n't claim any great originality or depth , but it is the best I can do at the moment . |