Example sentences of "for now " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had seemed almost to be currying favour when he was tumbling out the story of his family 's lost lease , trying to get Cameron to agree that the lairds were done for now . |
| 2 | Moreover , he had added to his possessions a piece of luggage of inestimable value for now - and for the next 30 or so years : his Olivetti 22 portable typewriter , which he had bought in London for £40 , no small investment for those days . |
| 3 | I shall have more to say about occlusion a little later , but for now : grasping the fact of occlusion in the sense of grasping the fact that if something were removed then something behind it would be perceived because the something behind was there all along is an achievement of the central systems . |
| 4 | Although you are all for outings with a pack , you will have to be content with your lot for now . |
| 5 | For now , BBC sport and Britain 's fledgling satellite companies are the best of friends . |
| 6 | ‘ I am not so complacent that I would say they wo n't become a formidable competitor but for now they are not , ’ Jonathan Martin , head of sport at the BBC , said . |
| 7 | The efforts of the home unions ' committee appear to have worked — for now at least . |
| 8 | For now they sit like shareholders at the annual general meeting of a company whose profits have fallen on last year 's . |
| 9 | David Robinson , the North coach , accepts the principle but not , for now , the practice . |
| 10 | Shall I say what the Muse is waiting for now ? |
| 11 | But for now there are only the empty frames on the walls of the cinema and the rich maroon emulsion they are set against . |
| 12 | That such care may well characterize those activities which Scruton declares can not possess it is suggested by Andrew Lumsden 's appropriately passing remark on the casual , anonymous sexual encounter : ‘ for now I can only generalize : as I 've known it , men are never so peaceful , so unviolent ( physically and emotionally ) , so graceful with each other ( no matter how ‘ crude' ’ the act ) as they are — as we are — when content to take each other without the addition of names , or beds , or flats , or even of any clear impression of one-another 's looks ' ( Gay News , 235 ( Mar. 1982 ) , 17 ) . |
| 13 | That 'll do for now , but I may want to talk to you again . ’ |
| 14 | For now , let me just stress : |
| 15 | Caroline Yates , 16 , schoolgirl ( right ) : ‘ I think the hat 's brilliant — just right for now ’ . |
| 16 | But talking changes nothing , and for now it is only talk . |
| 17 | One can say a lot now , but talking changes nothing , and for now , it is only talk ’ |
| 18 | In an ideal world , there would be no need for either , but for now I would rather see the frustration expressed in these light-hearted terms than in the sort of man-hating bitterness that has given feminism such a bad name . |
| 19 | Tata for now India could become to software in the 1990s what Taiwan and South Korea are to electronics today . |
| 20 | For now Mr Gorbachev is just managing to continue what he does best : keeping his show on the road . |
| 21 | For now , such notions of bigness play well in political circles but thankfully not in all banking ones . |
| 22 | That is enough for now , thinks Britain 's foreign secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 23 | By saying sorry , Israel cooled the spat — for now . |
| 24 | If the Americans accepted that the Israel-Palestine problem was insoluble , at least for now , they could concentrate on what really matters to them in the Middle East . |
| 25 | This will pay some bills for now . |
| 26 | SEC staffers are busy working out whether and , if so , how to force the debt market out of the dark hidey-holes that its traders , for now at least , prefer . |
| 27 | There the debate stands , for now . |
| 28 | Later I did manage to get out , immediately after dinner , & fortunately , for now I am back , it rains hard , as it has done every day now for a week . |
| 29 | He was going to change that start later , but for now it was an easy lead in . |
| 30 | ‘ That 'll be all for now , Mr Brown . |