Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] temporary [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power of the conscience can be built up from very early childhood by nothing more harmful than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love . |
| 2 | On the other hand , the effective independence of the individual contract programmer or analyst is not thereby enhanced , and he remains as dependent as the temporary secretary or typist upon intermediaries ( the agencies ) to provide a flow of work . |
| 3 | In many instances it is likely that these lowered rates of employment are the direct result of providing care , although in some cases it is possible that a temporary withdrawal from the labour market ( for example , because of redundancy or child-bearing ) may enable some women to take on informal caring responsibilities and delay their return to paid employment . |
| 4 | Mr Mathew claims that as long as the temporary grant is allowed to remain — in breach of statute — anyone who makes a will is similarly vulnerable . |
| 5 | However the Tube is not designed as anything more than a temporary tent so it should n't be expected to give normal tent performance . |
| 6 | The CGT , for instance , has regarded collective bargaining as no more than a temporary measure of the balance of power between management and unions , enabling the union to obtain the best negotiating results for wage-earners at a given point in time ( Goetschy , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | However , for most airports with overall impact of the Tunnel is unlikely to be more than a temporary hiccup in the strong growth of traffic . |
| 8 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , I hope and believe the sad condition you describe is no more than a temporary fantasy . |
| 9 | ‘ Despite your obvious fondness for the place , you 're none the less nothing more than a temporary caretaker . |
| 10 | But this was no more than a temporary reversal in the most savage onslaught from England which the Scots had ever experienced . |
| 11 | Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage . |
| 12 | Although upon return to Canada for what might prove to be no more than a temporary visit the mother 's situation might be unsatisfactory and she might suffer discomfort or perhaps even hardship , there is no evidence that there is a risk , let alone a great one , that the child 's return would place him in a situation which is intolerable . |
| 13 | But still it was clear that , amidst her preoccupations , there was scarcely room to think of him as anything more than a temporary ally . |
| 14 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 15 | She had repeatedly told herself her response to his touch was nothing more than a temporary aberration on her part , that familiarity must inevitably breed contempt , that sooner or later she would feel nothing more than irritation . |
| 16 | In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review . |
| 17 | Some cardiologists complained that the heart could never be more than a temporary remedy and that the money spent on the research could be better used for drug therapies and other techniques . |
| 18 | Evolution ultimately selects for the erm reproductive success of individual organisms , and you can see very clearly in the case of the T four bac bacterial that it is really nothing more than the temporary protein packaging of its D N A. |
| 19 | Zenawi told a press conference in London on the afternoon of May 28 that a temporary administration would before July 1 organize a conference to enable all groups to participate in forming a broad-based provisional government . |
| 20 | It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year . |
| 21 | the Leader ceasing to be a Member of the House of Commons ( other than a temporary cessation by reason of a dissolution ) ; |
| 22 | As we made clear in the previous chapter , its definition of temporary workers might well include people whose jobs are available on other than a temporary basis , but who only intend to stay in these jobs for a limited period of time . |
| 23 | The gentlest way of doing this is to use the effect of the deprivation of something desired , and where the training of children is concerned , that something need be nothing other than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love . |
| 24 | But , in the two areas of labour rights and educational control , it is not at all certain that the temporary reversal of constitutional guarantees has ever been restored . |