Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | The panic receded for the time being . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And to , to resign and to bring the new leader in charge to settle for a time . |
| 8 | If it takes an hour and five minutes , we charge an hour and a quarter to get for the time to get back . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was quite different , however , when through parental death or disaster a grandchild went for a time to be brought up by grandparents . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A general reference to the state of the partners ' capital accounts for the time being to establish both the quantum of the firm 's capital and its members ' shares therein may be substituted , with the important caveat , mentioned below , that poor accounting practices may serve to confuse the matter . |
| 16 | With the retirement of Thomas Goldney the firm reverted for a time to Pountney and Co , and eventually became known simply as the Bristol Pottery until its cessation in the 1960s . |
| 17 | The problem of bridging the gap between early experience and later personality has for the time being been shelved , and questions are being asked instead about what is indeed the logically prior problem : whether and in what way infants of various ages are affected by specified environmental happenings . |
| 18 | The absence of any letters between them from mid July until October suggests that they deliberately refrained from regular letter writing for a time . |
| 19 | Following the Act 's implementation , the proportion of defendants who were refused bail while awaiting summary trial declined for a time , and even though it rose thereafter , in 1999 it was still 1 per cent below the 1979 figure of 16 per cent . |
| 20 | Maxim brooded for a time . |
| 21 | The patient improves for a time , say an hour or more , then either stops getting better and the picture becomes more or less static , or begins to slip back again with the same symptoms . |