Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Progress in the 19th century lay in improving refining techniques , in finding new uses ( especially in catalysis and electricity ) and discovering new sources , principally in the Urals — after which for a time the Russians adopted platinum coinage . |
| 2 | the general administration of the trust is ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom ; and 2. the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not resident or not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom ( TCGA 1992 , s69(1) ) . |
| 3 | He received honours from Italy , Serbia , Montenegro , and the republic of San Marino , of which for a time he was consul in London . |
| 4 | Formula feeds without lactose are available , and your doctor may be able to prescribe one for you for a time , if your baby has had gastroenteritis and continues to have colic or diarrhoea afterwards . |
| 5 | I 've got my er seventeen year old granddaughter staying with me for the time being |
| 6 | I wo n't be in touch with you for a time and I do n't want you starting a panic . ’ |
| 7 | Artegall remains with her for a time and restores order : |
| 8 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 9 | Later , Baxter 's father and step-mother also came to live with him for a time . |
| 10 | John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time . |
| 11 | But if cheating is necessary , you can commonly get away with it for a time . |
| 12 | There is a real danger in only doing the classical things — you 're OK with it for a time , but then you 're left high and dry when fashion moves on . ’ |
| 13 | You may be with us unwillingly , but you are certainly with us for the time being . ’ |
| 14 | Not the clankings and gratings of the Zoo which lay off in the distance to his right , now obscured by the trees over which he had flown in the night , but the call of a thousand birds whose busyness and life shook his fears off him for a time and replaced them with a sense of wonder . |
| 15 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 16 | He may have been dependent on me for the time being for his physical well-being , but at the deepest level he was dependent on Montaine . |
| 17 | It was the first time I 've seen either Perberton and White so I 'll reserve judgement on them for the time being . |
| 18 | They 're more likely to leave George 's reins to you for the time being . |
| 19 | The clipped , breezy tone was one that Belinda knew by this time , and it meant , I want to be left to myself for the time being , thank you . |
| 20 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 21 | As Sir Alan Richmond recalls it : ‘ we were very hot on sandwich courses , almost dogmatic about it for a time ’ . |