Example sentences of "[prep] the moment " in BNC.
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| 1 | What matters for the moment is to examine the contention that the Roman catholic church had this special position only because of this matter of fact . |
| 2 | While preparing an early draft of the present chapter , the writer heard Bishop Cathal Daly of Down and Connor , a leading moderate among the bishops , respected by all except PIRA , repeat the adage that the Irish constitution was secular , implying that there really was little to be done for the moment . |
| 3 | The future depended on decisions I could not possibly predict , but at least I had now been offered a shadow of a lifeline , and that , for the moment , would have to do . |
| 4 | Going back to the railway station was for the moment out of the question , just in case I bumped into someone who recognized me . |
| 5 | They focus not on areas of need but on areas where they want to be seen to be giving , and that 's usually where the spotlight happens for the moment to be falling . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been excused for the moment . |
| 7 | I do n't know , but maybe tomorrow you will come across someone who is homeless — maybe in desperate need of help , maybe asleep and just wishing , for the moment , to be left in peace . |
| 8 | So tennis fans can , for the moment , pout away their railway timetables . |
| 9 | To date I have found both tools perfectly safe , used with care , and though there are rare occasions when I might choose the SuperCut , for the moment I 'll be sticking with the real thing , which remains in a class of its own . |
| 10 | A skyhook , then an unbelieving lunge and there I was , like a shipwrecked sailor washed up on the shore of an uninhabitable island , safe for the moment but by no means home . |
| 11 | For the moment Dostoevsky has been sidetracked by his immediate anxieties . |
| 12 | The other half should be neatly coiled and taped for the moment . |
| 13 | My doubts have grown during the years I have been thinking about and then writing this book , but for the moment I will concede that for many scholars and teachers a clarion-call to defend ‘ literature as literature ’ would prove rousing and timely . |
| 14 | Since Manning and Upward are in this way for the moment denied us , I shall make do with two other names : Maurice Hewlett and Laurence Binyon . |
| 15 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 16 | His absence is increasingly conspicuous and Liverpool , for the moment , in a super league of one . |
| 17 | For the moment , she is concerned with plaiting the three strands . |
| 18 | The 76-year-old Euro-MP , who currently lives in West Germany , said he would of course not rule out a run some time in the future but for the moment he feels he can do more to promote his country in the European parliament . |
| 19 | He lives , for the moment , in a city hotel , but with a three-year contract , he is planning to buy a house . |
| 20 | For the moment , the ever more active opposition remains dominated by intellectuals ; it has hardly succeeded in joining hands with the workers . |
| 21 | For the moment , high interest rates have eroded people 's economic confidence in the future but the trends in savings and consumer spending scarcely suggest a lack of economic buoyancy after seven years of real income growth . |
| 22 | While their representatives in Paris doubt the conference delegates will discard the Minerals Convention , they are confident that they , for the moment , occupy the moral high ground . |
| 23 | Recruiting outsiders is a dead duck for the moment ; another five years of failure and the time may yet come . |
| 24 | The Calibra was first shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September and , for the moment at least , is the world 's most aerodynamic production car . |
| 25 | So , for the moment , our problem is not with the Navy observers who are directing the naval guns , it 's with the increasing number of guns firing over our positions from the direction of the River Orne . |
| 26 | They realized dimly that , for the moment at least , the Bolsheviks seemed even keener than the SRs to provoke similar disorder at all levels : and their Land Decree seemed indistinguishable from the old SR demands on behalf of the peasantry . |
| 27 | The old abrasiveness over the community budget had for the moment disappeared . |
| 28 | However , without for the moment looking at the two halves separately , I imagine everyone would be prepared to accept the proposition in theory . |
| 29 | There have been far too many examples of artists ‘ living for the moment ’ , putting their faith in others to run their career , and waking up to find themselves penniless , out of favour with the public and feeling rather stupid . |
| 30 | The themes of savage and city in his work would continue to be important to the moulding of his thought , but would for the moment grow less prominent . |