Example sentences of "the moment [pers pn] is [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the moment it is right to take stock of how much has already been achieved — to the benefit of us all . |
| 2 | But at the moment it is essential that we work on what we bring with us when we enter these conflict situations . |
| 3 | At the moment it is possible for some people to complain that because the policy is set and also administered centrally , teams for a major championship marathon are picked in the same way as sprint squads . |
| 4 | For the moment it is sufficient to establish the fact that to speak a language at all is to employ abstraction and logic . |
| 5 | For the moment it is sufficient to note that while the managerialist picture of management discretion unbounded by market pressures is unquestionably a serious distortion , the more extreme claims made for the constraining power of these additional markets also give rise to considerable doubts . |
| 6 | We shall be looking at this point more closely later , but for the moment it is sufficient to point out that the gift of the Spirit at Pentecost to all believers without distinction fulfilled one further hope of the prophets of old . |
| 7 | This is a broad , catch-all term which ‘ gatecrashed the literature , thereby avoiding the entrance fee of a definition ’ ( Blackaby , 1979 , p. 2 ) ; the question of definitions is taken up in Chapter 2 but for the moment it is important to note that it is a misleading term for it is often used to describe the relative decline of manufacturing industry rather than industry as a whole which includes primary industries like mining , quarrying and oil and gas production and also includes construction and transport . |
| 8 | But a conflict between objectives — as we saw early in 1988 — may re-emerge the moment it is clear the economy is really slowing . |
| 9 | At the moment it is difficult to describe how the system will work in practice . |