Example sentences of "[prep] [art] moment [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 For the moment The Globe 's most obvious requirements are money and timber .
2 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
3 For the moment the hit list includes white wine , wheat gluten and grapeseed , colza and mustard oils — all widely produced by French farmers .
4 Leaving aside for the moment the question of the objective reality or otherwise of terrestrial zodiacs , how can we set about finding ( or creating ) them ?
5 Leaving aside for the moment the question of informal import barriers , the restrictive practices used by larger manufacturers can be used as one explanation of the highly dispersed structure of distribution .
6 Inflation analysis divides many macroeconomists , but for the moment the question is how it can be introduced to analysis .
7 The number of very young babies available has decreased and for the moment the Society has reluctantly decided to close its list to applicants seeking straightforward babies under one year .
8 Although for the moment the army is the darling of the people , its closeness to the now constitutionally-entrenched council will afford the military great authority .
9 If we assume that the monetary authorities set the size of the nominal money supply and that for the moment the price level is fixed at , then the supply of real cash balances can also be illustrated in the figure .
10 Let us put aside for the moment the misgiving that the latter phrase ushers in the intentional ingredient once more .
11 For the moment the mood , among those not directly opposed to Mr Sharif , is cheerful .
12 For the moment the issue of affiliation was subordinated to that of forming an electoral alliance against the National Government .
13 For the moment the tsar not only held all the cards at home but also was continuing to improve his position abroad .
14 ‘ I am sure , ’ Miss Honey said , ‘ that we 'll be able to get you moved into a much higher form later on , but for the moment the Headmistress wishes you to stay where you are . ’
15 At intervals the defenders would come from one part or another of the ramparts to collect a supply of them ; but for the moment the firing was slack .
16 Complete silence , for the rain had ceased and for the moment the storm seemed to have moved away .
17 Leaving aside for the moment the problem of determining a norm , we may define deviance as a purely statistical notion : as the difference between the normal frequency of a feature , and its frequency in the text or corpus .
18 Ignoring for the moment the force of the word ‘ really ’ in this argument , we can still feel confident that even if we give up talking of knowledge , granting that a necessary condition for knowing is unfulfilled , we can happily continue to talk about justified belief , distinguishing some beliefs as justified or as more justified than others and others as less justified or even completely unjustified .
19 Minsky is making an interesting and important point here and I shall refer back to it , but for the moment the quotation functions purely as a sample : what it has in common with Turing 's classic paper is that it is not philosophical argument at all .
20 For the moment the Republic held most of the north coast , Catalonia , Minorca , and the greater part of southern Spain .
21 She pretended not to be disappointed and there for the moment the matter rested .
22 Leaving aside for the moment the matter of the educational validity of the principles under discussion , their most immediately apparent influence — as might be expected — was on the physical appearance of PNP classrooms .
23 Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves .
24 The transfer of ideas between scientists , disregarding for the moment the nature of the medium used for exchange , can be described either as personal or as formal .
25 Problems with the software have prevented for the moment the implementation of an automated indexing system .
26 From the individual 's lifetime budget constraint , it follows that the present value of receipts is equal to the present value of expenditure ( leaving aside for the moment the effect of uncertainty ) .
27 After a moment a girl shyly took them and began counting in twos .
28 After a moment a man 's voice said in Italian :
29 There was no answer , but after a moment the scratching was repeated .
30 After a moment the bell rang again , but this time neither of them answered it .
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