Example sentences of "[vb past] for [art] time [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 2 | His chief undertaking , Fowey Consols , became for a time the second largest producer in Cornwall . |
| 3 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 4 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 5 | While studying theology at Oxford he joined for a time the household of Robert Grosseteste [ q.v. ] , bishop of Lincoln , probably through the good offices of Adam Marsh , who described him as ‘ active , discreet , full of goodwill and devoted to the cure of souls ’ ( Mon . |