Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] for the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feeling a twinge of guilt because she 'd inadvertently brought it all up when all they wanted was for it to remain buried , and pushing aside for the moment the whys and wherefores of her grandfather 's involvement , Ellie apologised quietly , ‘ I 'm sorry . |
| 2 | can we put can we put problem solving in for the moment ? |
| 3 | Instead you manipulate the plots of the others to your own ends , playing one off against the others , letting them waste their energies in fruitless rivalries while you look on from a safe distance , waiting patiently for the moment to make your move , the day when I drop dead and you can come home and claim your own . |
| 4 | keep you ticking over for the moment |
| 5 | Leaving aside for the moment the special interest groups which might be more amenable to user education programmes , let us look at work with adults with no allegiance to the public library other than that they are committed users of the service . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Leaving aside for the moment a final conflict over the estates of Canterbury , we may turn to Anselm 's efforts to hold a council for the reform of morals and discipline throughout the land . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Leaving aside for the moment differences in personal qualities and skills , which may or may not vary with the curriculum , it would seem that graduates who can offer both expertise and ability are in the strongest employment position , those who offer either one or the other may also find a job niche , but that those who offer neither are worst off . |
| 12 | Leaving aside for the moment purely defensive moves , not calculated to increase efficiency , responses may , following Eisenberg 's terminology , lead to improvements in operating efficiency or resource efficiency . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Setting aside for the moment the human science/humanities distinction we need to decide whether there is any real difference between ‘ humanities ’ and ‘ arts ’ . |