Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the time be " in BNC.

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1 Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed .
2 The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being .
3 After that everything between them became easy for the time being .
4 Kirov fell silent , knowing that he had said enough for the time being .
5 Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday .
6 ‘ Most of the trauma I was going through at the time is written into that film , ’ he admitted reflectively .
7 The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet !
8 Mr Patten stays on for the time being as party chairman while he and Mr Major consider what should happen .
9 You 've just got to keep doubling up until the time is right .
10 The two-parter was also fun as it gave all of us a chance to act in conflict and be a bit more expansive , because otherwise , if you think about it , all we were doing most of the time was feeding lines to other people . ’
11 The result was that the story was set aside for the time being .
12 So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door .
13 ‘ Given the present and foreseeable state of fishery resources in the Community and the degree to which fishing fleets have so far been restructured , the full-scale liberalisation of the activities of undertakings must be ruled out for the time being
14 probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being
15 Leaving aside for the time being the question of ‘ hostile intent , ’ it is plain that it is not enough that the defendant deliberately does an act that has the incidental effect of obstructing the police ; he must also have some notion that he is obstructing and causing the police difficulties .
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