Example sentences of "[be] for a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 2 | If a local compromise between capital and labour is helpful to both accumulation and the standard of living of labour ( which it can be for a time ) , then most factions of the bourgeoisie and the working classes may support it . |
| 3 | Marx and Engels ' arbiter model of the state suggested that if class forces in society were for a time evenly balanced , then the state bureaucracy and a strong political — military leader could intervene to impose stabilizing policies which were not controllable by capital , although they would be bound to maintain capitalist predominance in economic life . |
| 4 | Danish Christianity went back only to his grandfather Harald Bluetooth , and according to Adam of Bremen Christians were for a time persecuted by Swegen Forkbeard . |
| 5 | On his return to the Westminster he was for a time senior house officer in the department of clinical measurement before becoming anaesthetic research registrar . |
| 6 | He had a very high reputation as a spiritual guide ( he was for a time Abbot of Bec in Normandy ) and teacher . |
| 7 | They tell us that a stonemason 's third marriage at 57 was his happiest ; or that a retired doctor found ‘ life was for a time difficult ’ for lack of ‘ any special hobbies . ’ |
| 8 | He was a prolific writer of learned articles in the Veterinarian of which he was for a time co-editor , and his classical education is reflected in his thoughtful commentaries . |
| 9 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 10 | While Brunner 's theology was for a time regarded , especially in Britain and America , as more ‘ moderate ’ than Barth 's , and therefore preferable , he must now be regarded as the less radical and less creative of the two . |
| 11 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 12 | The last ( held by Florence Nightingale and Charles Kingsley , to name only two ) was for a time more popular than the first ; and although to some extent the preventive measures suggested by each did overlap , their priorities were somewhat different . |
| 13 | He was for a time in Ireland overseeing the introduction of these changes , and he and Thomas were both given substantial pensions ( £100 each ) in 1603 . |
| 14 | Between 1821 and 1842 he took out five patents , one of them for a ‘ suspension railway ’ which was tried out unsuccessfully in Cheshunt , and two relating to a system of constructing roofs and bridge decks in corrugated wrought or cast iron , which was for a time quite extensively used . |
| 15 | He was for a time the coach at Harrow School and , from 1857 to his death , secretary of the Cricketers ' Fund Friendly Society . |
| 16 | Well , I was crazy … sure I was for a time . |
| 17 | At the end of teaching , the long street towards the centre of Cullbridge was for a time a babble of noise , with scuffles , cap-snatching and schoolboy indecencies hurled from green-blazered groups on one side to green-blazered groups on the other . |
| 18 | From late 1813 trade improved , and it was for a time in 1814 brisk again . |
| 19 | When the Foreign Office List made its first appearance " it was strongly objected to in certain quarters , as likely to afford information to the general public with regard to the office , which they thought it advisable they should not possess , and much information was for a time withheld " . |