Example sentences of "[noun] and for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they lost Richard Biddle with a hamstring injury , the Quakers looked like they could actually match the ex-Premier League side and for a time they promised to take the lead . |
| 2 | Now if you can just say on that , that that excludes any resources for the economic development action plan and for the time being resources for that initiative are being held centrally into Personnel and Finance sub-committee 's budget and as the action plans develop then money will be released from a contingency there to er go to the Planning Department or to whichever department that has actually been implementing that particular part of the action . |
| 3 | Exploitation of the alluvial deposits of the Altai still further east allowed Russia to displace Brazil and for a time to be the world 's leading producer of gold . |
| 4 | The Aridians , locked in their own war for survival against savage Mire Beasts , are in no position to oppose the Daleks and for a time the TARDIS crew are their prisoners . |
| 5 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 6 | Nicholson saw them around Sunset Strip and for a time they were joined by Elvis Presley , who had seen Rebel Without a Cause forty-four times and could speak Dean 's lines word perfect . |
| 7 | His death quite literally shattered the Prince and for a time he lost all sense of purpose . |
| 8 | Reza Khan had promised Ironside that he would not depose Ahmad Shah and for a time he did not . |
| 9 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 10 | Unable to get his life and work in gear , Chris Penn changed his name and for a time worked on a building site before earning good money being beaten black and blue as a prize fighter . |
| 11 | Canterbury was the senior court and for a time during the Commonwealth period — between 1655 and 1660 — all wills were proved there . |
| 12 | He hated the noise of Endsleigh Court and for a time shared the flat of a friend — mistaking his haemorrhoid cream for toothpaste . |
| 13 | This kingdom spread itself over Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde and for a time seems to have included Orkney . |
| 14 | British rowing officials are not known for making sweeping changes and for the time being they say Henley will stay as it is … |
| 15 | And that , for most people and for the time being , said everything . |
| 16 | A good family resort , Cisternino was once the domain of monks and bishops and for a time came under the rule of the Venetian doges . |
| 17 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ By this time , I 'd become the President of MainMan and for a time was Ton 's right hand man running errands for him . |
| 18 | Jeremy was swiftly ejected from his first job , at the Rotherham Advertiser and for a time he made Paddington Bears for a living . |
| 19 | In 1866 , after the Prussian victory over Austria , French public opinion clamoured for war against Prussia and for a time even the Emperor appeared to hesitate . |
| 20 | So that 's why IBM Corp was ready to get rid of MAPICS , one of its very few ostensibly successful software applications : Marcam Corp signalled in a conference call on Thursday night that analysts for now should not expect the product line from IBM to add to Marcam 's earnings in fiscal 1994 ; it indicated that both this year and for the time being next year their guidance is no positive impact on earnings from the MAPICS acquisition , ’ Hambrecht & Quist analyst Robert Herwick says . |
| 21 | Ahmed Ahmedi was at the airport and for a time no one knew what to do with me . |
| 22 | Writer Brian Clark gave me the persona of a middle-class , middle-aged professional with a wife problem and for a time it became my trademark . |
| 23 | Before his association with William Smith and other Lollards of Leicester he had acted as a preacher and for a time as a hermit , with varied reception but some support from the Augustinian canons at Leicester Abbey . |