Example sentences of "buying time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wounded country needs time and international tolerance to recover and , accepting the inevitable , he is buying time with a series of compromises . |
| 2 | The appointment last week of company doctoring group Postern to work on an MTM recovery should help in buying time with the banks . |
| 3 | Compared with £1.5 billion for FGD to achieve a significant cut in Britain 's sulphur emissions , it was a cheap way of buying time : a year 's grace for each £1 million , about an hour 's expenditure for the CEGB . |
| 4 | Buying time , whether a lot or a little , during an attack is always worth doing . |
| 5 | He was simply buying time . |
| 6 | It was felt that the state does not want to protect people and the legislation was nothing more than an exercise in buying time ( something that the people of West Belfast have n't got ) . |
| 7 | But this policy of buying time should not be at the expense of those young people who are currently losing out at school . |
| 8 | It may paper over things and succeed in buying time , but it can not overcome the class-based conflicts that will eventually bubble up to the surface . |
| 9 | All this effectively rules out buying time at a bureau . |
| 10 | There is no question of buying time , as with a bureau , or being charged internally , as in the case of a mainframe . |
| 11 | It might be just a matter of buying time and hoping the Admiral dropped dead of a stroke or something . ’ |
| 12 | He was really just buying time before having to deal with Patrizia Valesio . |
| 13 | In general , research suggests that in the immediate wake of unexpected news of a major loss , such as finding oneself permanently disabled after a car accident , denial may also , in the short term , be an adaptive response as a means of buying time for the individual ( Adams and Lindemann , 1974 ) . |
| 14 | Closing date for this year 's writers ' bursaries from Northern Arts , buying time or a bit of peace and quiet to write at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre , is May 29 . |
| 15 | ‘ While we would hope the money we are spending at the moment is proving to be cost-effective , at the end of the day electronic security is really only buying time , ’ said Mr Banks . |
| 16 | They were simply buying time , came out with a white paper that meant absolutely nothing and now we see the full effects of it . |