Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 2 | Japan was invading China , the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek disappeared for a time , and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London from Munich waving a paper to proclaim ‘ peace in our time ’ . |
| 3 | Even Sir Henry came out of his chill library to stand for a time , wrapped in greatcoat and mufflers , surveying the Breughel-like gathering at the lake . |
| 4 | Following the Act 's implementation , the proportion of defendants who were refused bail while awaiting summary trial declined for a time , and even though it rose thereafter , in 1999 it was still 1 per cent below the 1979 figure of 16 per cent . |
| 5 | If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories . |
| 6 | Margaret Clifton taught for a time in England , and then at the British Institute School in Madrid . |