Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] for the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The residue of liberty just gets smaller and smaller , until eventually , in some areas , it is extinguished altogether , with freedom becoming no more than the power to do that which an official has decided for the time being not to prohibit . |
| 2 | Regardless of a critical report it had itself commissioned , the World Bank has decided for the time being to continue financing the Sardar Sarovar dam and canal project on the Narmada river in India . |
| 3 | The massacre has sabotaged for the time being any resumption of negotiations between Mandela and de Klerk . |
| 4 | The boom in buying second homes in Europe has ended for the time being — the buyers wo n't be back until the UK economy recovers |
| 5 | But following the changes in Eastern Europe and the virtual ending of the cold war this particular danger has receded for the time being , and as a result a new process of gradual disarmament by the major nuclear powers has begun . |
| 6 | However , it has not yet been possible to obtain agreement on the need for specific regulation for construction liability and so the principle of subsidiarity continues to apply for the time being . |