Example sentences of "a temporary [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All patients new to the practice are given a temporary folder , which is stamped with the date that the permanent notes were requested from the family health services authority . |
| 2 | A temporary removal of the engine does not stop a vehicle being a ‘ mechanically propelled vehicle ’ . |
| 3 | Her loving parental home , she knows , is only a temporary shelter . |
| 4 | They provided plastic sheets and blankets in the local citadel and the women had a temporary shelter . |
| 5 | The Moroccan said that athletes might still take drugs if they thought being caught would mean only a temporary ban . |
| 6 | Last year , under different provisions , a temporary ban was imposed on Chinese underwear imports to stop a temporary surge . |
| 7 | As a result of the demonstration the Estonian Supreme Soviet announced on May 16 that a Home Guard was being set up to defend government buildings , and the Tallinn city council placed a temporary ban on the organization responsible for calling the demonstration , the United Council of Work Collectives . |
| 8 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 9 | On Nov. 27 parliament appealed for an end to the civil war , defended a temporary ban on strikes and rallies , and called for the voluntary surrender of weapons . |
| 10 | The Greek government issued a temporary ban on traffic in central Athens and warned people to stay indoors after an unprecedented build-up of air pollution led to hundreds of people falling ill with respiratory and heart problems . |
| 11 | The firm transports livestock to Europe , but because of the drivers ' blockade , a temporary ban has been placed on the export of livestock into France . |
| 12 | Its fellowships are designed to help scientists , engineers and mathematicians to move , on a temporary secondment basis for between six months and two years , either from an academic institution into industry , or vice versa , to undertake an agreed project of significance both to the academic department and to the company concerned . |
| 13 | The Communist Party had continually attacked the ILP regarding the disaffiliation issue as a temporary manoeuvre " to hold back the British workers from the revolutionary policy of the Communist lnternational " . |
| 14 | Sensing the dangers of such rivalry , the Communists intensified their attack on the ILP , going so far as to declare that disaffiliation was but a temporary manoeuvre . |
| 15 | In the early period of uncertainty , when many prominent leaders of the ILP were clearly wary of forming an independent party , the Communists favoured the suggestion that disaffiliation was a temporary manoeuvre . |
| 16 | The argument is perhaps more tactical than serious , and it is a notable irony that the article was collected in 1968 , in the very year when gentility , even in Britain , suffered a temporary eclipse . |
| 17 | Among these safeguards were prior Diet approval for each contribution to a UN peacekeeping mission , a temporary freeze on SDF participation in peacekeeping operations which might involve military action , and a review of the legislation after three years . |
| 18 | One of the Palestinian negotiators , Hannan Ashrawi , meeting with Baker in Jerusalem on July 20 described Rabin 's move towards imposing a temporary freeze as " encouraging " . |
| 19 | A temporary cache . |
| 20 | TRADITIONAL Commonwealth growers of bananas in the Caribbean and their importers , such as Fyffes and Geest , will breathe at least a temporary sigh of relief after the European Commission finally made up its mind to extend the present quota-based system in the single market next year . |
| 21 | Resistance was volatile , at times anarchist in nature ; spontaneous riots against bread prices or unemployment were short lived , providing the poor with a temporary release of tension and an opportunity to express hostility to respectability and the law . |
| 22 | They threw themselves into the celebrations , a temporary release from the daily routine , but the problems would still be there once the party was over . |
| 23 | It only does not colour the beautiful " gutter " quartet [ 20 ] , where Grimes is not mentioned — a temporary release which is as happy dramatically as it is musically . |
| 24 | as a temporary release measure , or as temporary release measures from Mr suggest that . |
| 25 | United States President Bush on Dec. 12 announced a temporary waiver until mid-1991 of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment restricting US trade with the Soviet Union [ see also p. 37921 ] . |
| 26 | Money problems at home led to a temporary fragmentation of the family and a new school for William but when the family got back together and William returned to St Augustine 's , reports from the other school followed the previous pattern at St Augustine 's . |
| 27 | The news gave the one time glamour shares a temporary sparkle , rising 25p to 925p before slipping back to 845p . |
| 28 | It will be the argument of this chapter that a two-party system did exist under William and Anne , although there was a temporary blurring and realignment in the early years of William 's reign . |
| 29 | If your baby only has colic in the evening , then a temporary deficit in lactase , due to the morning feed being larger than usual , is a possibility ( see p 202 ) . |
| 30 | In many instances it is likely that these lowered rates of employment are the direct result of providing care , although in some cases it is possible that a temporary withdrawal from the labour market ( for example , because of redundancy or child-bearing ) may enable some women to take on informal caring responsibilities and delay their return to paid employment . |