Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The massacre has sabotaged for the time being any resumption of negotiations between Mandela and de Klerk . |
| 2 | IBM 's recognition budget has changed with the times . |
| 3 | But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun . |
| 4 | It is important to note that the preferential creditors are given priority where a receiver is appointed with respect to a charge ‘ which , as created , was a floating charge ’ ; thus the fact that the charge has crystallised at the time a receiver is appointed does not result in preferential debts being denied their statutory priority . |
| 5 | Well well actual fact , unless it 's done , the security 's fitted at the time of manufacture you can actually serious damage the framing . |
| 6 | It is clear that all resistance to shearing has vanished by the time that the atoms are balanced on top of each other , which will occur when the whole material has been distorted in shear through an angle of 30° . |
| 7 | One method of investigating this area has centred on the time which children take to give the answer to a range of simple sums . |
| 8 | In Natal — home of the current Currie Cup champions — rugby followers are desperate for the game 's authorities to accept that their game has slipped behind the times . |
| 9 | COMPLETED FAMILY SIZE — The number of children ( live-born babies ) a woman has borne by the time she has reached the end of the childbearing age . |
| 10 | Not a word about the Heber scandal has appeared in the Times . |
| 11 | An acceptable theory must explain in detail how this clumping of matter has occurred in the time available for it . |
| 12 | The residue of liberty just gets smaller and smaller , until eventually , in some areas , it is extinguished altogether , with freedom becoming no more than the power to do that which an official has decided for the time being not to prohibit . |
| 13 | Regardless of a critical report it had itself commissioned , the World Bank has decided for the time being to continue financing the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal project on the Narmada river in India . |
| 14 | Scotland , too , although the state of their sea defences will depend on the course the opening phase has taken by the time the countries meet on June 20 . |
| 15 | However , the question in the way it is posed by educators usually calls for an answer in terms of commitment rather than of attitude in school or in society and the implementation has begun by the time the thought of research arises . |