Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cloak was the principal relic of the west Frankish kings of Neustria , and wherever the Neustrian kings were , it went with them to adorn whatever building became for the time being the royal chapel . |
| 2 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
| 3 | In between minor television roles , in series like ‘ Divorce Court ’ , Jack took to practising script writing for a time , while waiting for work . |
| 4 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 5 | But all instances share one characteristic : the author 's words become for a time the transmitters of other voices , voices that come from inside someone else 's head . |
| 6 | And the model incorporates an adjustable time lag in the volcanic and solar influences to allow for the time it takes the temperature of the atmosphere and oceans to respond to outside influences . |
| 7 | He originally planned to earn enough cash selling computers to pay for the time he spent on the race track . |
| 8 | The panic receded for the time being . |
| 9 | ‘ When Maeve was taken , ’ said Grainne , and those nearest noted that she did not falter over the name , ‘ when Maeve was taken , the huge and fearsome Gateway to the Dark Ireland opened for a time . |
| 10 | Julian Barnes ( pictured left ) was then on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary Supplement , and Martin Amis worked for the Times Literary Supplement . |
| 11 | Although such testimony is important , it is a little unfortunate that Dobson 's influence led for a time to an undervaluing of occasional spellings , rhymes and puns . |
| 12 | Also , coins seem for a time to have been minted in his name in Sigtuna ( on Lake Mälar , near modern Stockholm ) with the title REX SW ( king of Swedes ) , by a moneyer who had earlier struck for Anund Jacob . |
| 13 | Japan was invading China , the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek disappeared for a time , and Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London from Munich waving a paper to proclaim ‘ peace in our time ’ . |
| 14 | And to , to resign and to bring the new leader in charge to settle for a time . |
| 15 | In spite of the war , trolleybus conversions continued for the time being in other parts of London , but did not affect the Croydon area directly . |
| 16 | And Jessie listened for a time , but then she said , ‘ But she must be a total stranger . |
| 17 | Moreover , with a politically more secure government and fewer power cuts ( the benefits of new investment were gradually coming through ) , the threat of public exposure could not be as effectively used by the Boards against Whitehall , though the mandarins remained for a time concerned that Citrine was aiming at such an anti-government campaign . |
| 18 | If it takes an hour and five minutes , we charge an hour and a quarter to get for the time to get back . |
| 19 | If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories . |
| 20 | ‘ In this section , section 84 , Schedule 12 and Schedule 13 … ‘ action ’ includes any failure to act , and so as regards ‘ exercise ’ in relation to any power ; and ‘ action , ’ in relation to a society , includes action on its behalf by any body associated with it ; ‘ prescribed , ’ in relation to matters of complaint , means prescribed for the time being in Part II of Schedule 12 and , in relation to the respects in which a complainant is affected by any action , means prescribed for the time being in Part III of that Schedule as grounds for making action subject to investigation under the scheme ; … |
| 21 | ‘ In this section , section 84 , Schedule 12 and Schedule 13 … ‘ action ’ includes any failure to act , and so as regards ‘ exercise ’ in relation to any power ; and ‘ action , ’ in relation to a society , includes action on its behalf by any body associated with it ; ‘ prescribed , ’ in relation to matters of complaint , means prescribed for the time being in Part II of Schedule 12 and , in relation to the respects in which a complainant is affected by any action , means prescribed for the time being in Part III of that Schedule as grounds for making action subject to investigation under the scheme ; … |
| 22 | Even Sir Henry came out of his chill library to stand for a time , wrapped in greatcoat and mufflers , surveying the Breughel-like gathering at the lake . |
| 23 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 24 | command essentially presses Return for the TIME command . |
| 25 | Compassion for Antoinette Gebrec had for the time being taken her mind off her own disillusionment . |
| 26 | This is useful practise to prepare for the time when you allow the dog off the leash for the first time , and call it back to you . |
| 27 | It was quite different , however , when through parental death or disaster a grandchild went for a time to be brought up by grandparents . |
| 28 | Before long , however , the euphoria and hope turned to terror and tyranny , and first under the Committee of Public Safety and the Triumvirate , and then led by the Corsican dictator Napoleon , France became for a time , a threat to every nation in Europe . |
| 29 | Hunt lived for a time as a tax exile in Marbella , sharing an estate with another ex model , Jane ‘ Hottie ’ Birbeck . |
| 30 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |