Example sentences of "the present moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beyond the unities of the present moment , there are unities over time . |
| 2 | Only now mattered , for the present moment was so filled with beauty that it smothered the effort of climbing , and with every gasp of breath came a physical response to the glory of the day . |
| 3 | It is a fallacy at the present moment to believe that there are any quick cures for our monetary difficulties , least of all joining the ERM ( European exchange rate mechanism ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The want of the present moment is a new Foreign Office , and to supply that want is the extent of our ambition . ’ |
| 5 | Either we assume that the whole universe is at the present moment in a very improbable state . |
| 6 | Another point which may be considered under the heading of primary and secondary sources is the practice , very popular at the present moment , of giving verbatim statements made by respondents in interviews . |
| 7 | In both cases the present moment is being spoilt by fretting needlessly over past or future moments . |
| 8 | The Alexander Technique is a way of directing our conscious minds in order to be more in the present moment . |
| 9 | When we lose this balance , each of us has a tendency to consider the present moment not only as unique but as autonomous . |
| 10 | In keeping open the lines with the past , the redeemed memory carries encouragement and conveys warnings and lessons to faith as faith is engaged in fighting at that front line of the battle which is the present moment . |
| 11 | Remember honestly , remember fully and the present moment will be so vividly contrasted with the ‘ once and might have been ’ that a hard heart will be melted and sealed lips broken open by praise . |
| 12 | be unable to live in the present moment |
| 13 | The Icicle Works do n't appear to be particularly active at the present moment and Ian McNabb was recently to be spotted playing a solo gig at Camden 's Underground Club . |
| 14 | A terrific industrial upheaval at the present moment might be dangerous from the standpoint of a democratic People 's Peace . |
| 15 | And now , at the present moment , my men are securing flotation bags and lifting slings to the plane . |
| 16 | Look , what you 've got at the present moment , Private Nobody , is a badly sprained ankle . |
| 17 | If you have players who are obsessed with mapping detail , they will have a very tough time inside the Castle , but in describing the outside of it , when their characters seem to see slight differences each time they look at the buildings , add the disorientating detail that the characters can not remember exactly what the Castle looked like at any time prior to the present moment . |
| 18 | At the present moment , the archive system runs in Siemens Nixdorf Informationssyteme AG environments under Unix with the OSF/Motif graphical user interface . |
| 19 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 20 | His plea was well received by his listeners who , if they did not quite accept his characterisation of the present moment as a ‘ cultural war ’ between the advocates of free expression and individuals he referred to as ‘ know-nothings ’ , nonetheless were happy , even relieved , to have something resembling moral high ground from which to defend themselves in the controversy and even take the battle back to the ‘ enemy ’ . |
| 21 | At the present moment one can think of Chaliapin and Battistini among the men , Calvé , Bahr-Mildenburg and Ackte among the women . ’ |
| 22 | Mr Patrick McIntyre , a South London publican and former New Scotland Yard detective who wrote a regular crime column for the South London Chronicle , was another who cast doubt on the Hooligan panic , accusing newspapers of being in their ‘ silly season ’ and of taking the matter up merely ‘ as a suitable and sensational means of filling their columns at the present moment ’ . |
| 23 | When Scouting for Boys first appeared in a series of fortnightly instalments in 1908 , the fly-leaf of the final issue was already claiming that ‘ at the present moment something between 500,000 and 700,000 young men are interested in this scheme , which will come into full swing about April ’ . |
| 24 | Matthew Arnold echoed the belief in 1869 that the social system was groaning under the weight of ‘ those vast , miserable , unmanageable masses of sunken people — one pauper at the present moment , for every nineteen of us ’ . |
| 25 | Lamenting ‘ the feeling of morbid sympathy with criminals which at the present moment undoubtedly exists ’ , The Times ( 18 November 1856 ) had arrived at a sorry conclusion : ‘ Philanthropy , like crinoline , has become the fashion . ’ |
| 26 | I read an article on Cizek 's school in Vienna — the apparent chance of reading that one article has arranged my life since then , until the present moment . |
| 27 | The memory seemed to grow strongly into life , much more real than the present moment ; the glossy cream-coloured cooker stood like a house , black knobs winking like eyes , and the big brown table was a house , roofed over and four-square . |
| 28 | The time span of the thinking is too long , it makes the present moment arbitrary , a point on a graph that is in itself meaningless . |
| 29 | Cos it 's not actually working algebraic that calculator at the present moment I do n't know what you 've got it programmed in What you 've got it at but it 's not working algebraic . |
| 30 | Whether Skelton needs to expand at the present moment is not for me to say . |