Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle this ‘ virtual ’ photon can only exist for a time . |
| 2 | You may find that she will need to lean on you a little for several months to speak and act for her in matters she can not give her full attention to , because she will be quite rightly absorbed for the time being in grieving , which is mentally and emotionally very hard work indeed . |
| 3 | I came out of the forces , he was only waiting for the time that I came out , for him to retire . |
| 4 | The most easily dyed materials are wool and silk ; cotton and linen are difficult as they are made primarily of cellulose , being obtained from plants , rather than animal protein , and are better reserved for the time when experience has been obtained with dyeing wool . |
| 5 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 6 | 2.25:GOLD CUP hero Cool Ground was beaten a long way behind Tipping Tim at Wetherby three weeks ago , and is best watched for the time being . |
| 7 | A program which depends on several hours of training does not allow for the time and number constraints of the classroom . |
| 8 | The but is the superego is a part of the ego so we have to er before we go on to the superego , let's just say for the time being that repression is directed by the ego itself . |
| 9 | Her father was under clad for the time of year but was sweating heavily . |
| 10 | If the light intensity increases , the rate of turning also increases for a time , before falling back to its initial level . |
| 11 | Harald was probably also recognised for a time as ruler of part of Norway . |
| 12 | On leaving school Herbert joined his father as an engineering apprentice , and also worked for a time in the mechanical engineering laboratories of the City and Guilds Technical College in Finchley , London . |
| 13 | Both international links have so far come to nothing — the SFE link having been effectively abandoned for the time being , and the CBoT accord never having been implemented . |
| 14 | The elusive creature may be successfully trailed for a time , then disappear for months and even years . |
| 15 | The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems . |
| 16 | ‘ Because you ca n't wait for the time when you 'll be a married woman ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I told him — my husband had a hard job , he was n't working for a time . |
| 18 | So deep was the division on the " entrist tactic " that the unified body reached the compromise of working within the Labour Party for a period and then withdrawing for a time and continuing independent activity . |
| 19 | The social person first moves out of his original position ( role ) ( " the rite of separation " ) ; he then exists for a time in a liminal condition , a threshold of time and space which is outside the ordinary world of secular affairs and is treated as in some way " sacred " ( Van Gennep 's " rite de marge " ) ; finally he moves back into secular society in his new position ( role ) ( " the rite of aggregation " ) . |