Example sentences of "[be] for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nell stayed as she was for a long time , then had an inspiration . |
| 32 | The other recalls what was for a long time Britain 's worst air disaster . |
| 33 | The mainstream of early French political socialism was for a long time essentially petit bourgeois , in its absence of rapprochement with trade unions , in its party organizational form , and in the social background of its parliamentarians and membership . |
| 34 | In university circles there was for a long time little sympathy for the innovators , and in his younger days Nietzsche 's own tastes inclined the same way . |
| 35 | It was for a long time a small and cheap organisation . |
| 36 | The answer is , of course , that the position of a word boundary has some effect on the realisation of the phoneme ; this is one of the many cases in which the occurrence of different allophones can only be properly explained by making reference to units of grammar ( something which was for a long time disapproved of by many phonologists ) . |
| 37 | During the development of modern phonetics in the present century it was for a long time hoped that scientific study of intonation would make it possible to state what the function of each different aspect of intonation was , and that foreign learners could then be taught rules to enable them to use intonation in the way that native speakers use it . |
| 38 | I was for a short time privileged to share in the joy and vitality and the oneness with Almighty God in his Luo people ( Anne Marie will gladly give a talk and show slides to any interested groups in the North West . |
| 39 | This was for a short time only ; I had suffered a significant loss , but not a life-threatening or total one . |
| 40 | Pain entered my left arm and was for a short time , half a minute or so , quite hurtful . |