Example sentences of "[pron] be for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was for a short time privileged to share in the joy and vitality and the oneness with Almighty God in his Luo people ( Anne Marie will gladly give a talk and show slides to any interested groups in the North West . |
| 2 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 3 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 4 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 5 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 6 | In university circles there was for a long time little sympathy for the innovators , and in his younger days Nietzsche 's own tastes inclined the same way . |
| 7 | Yes , yes , it sounds it sounds as it 's for a limited time anyway , so , you know |
| 8 | The guy who 's been in the business or been in the same patch or whatever it is for a long time , |
| 9 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 10 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 11 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |