Example sentences of "than [art] temporary " in BNC.

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1 The gentlest way of doing this is to use the effect of the deprivation of something desired , and where the training of children is concerned , that something need be nothing other than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love .
2 The power of the conscience can be built up from very early childhood by nothing more harmful than the temporary withholding of manifestations of love .
3 The significance of the data lies in the way that odd nitrogen is partitioned in autumn in the long-lived reservoir of HNO 3 , rather than the temporary reservoir of N 2 O 5 .
4 Evolution ultimately selects for the erm reproductive success of individual organisms , and you can see very clearly in the case of the T four bac bacterial that it is really nothing more than the temporary protein packaging of its D N A.
5 Philistinism is rife , and it is high time for some loud restatement of the old conservationist maxim that ownership is no more than a temporary rental on the nation 's heritage .
6 However the Tube is not designed as anything more than a temporary tent so it should n't be expected to give normal tent performance .
7 Vienna Dear Fräulein , I hope and believe the sad condition you describe is no more than a temporary fantasy .
8 But this was no more than a temporary reversal in the most savage onslaught from England which the Scots had ever experienced .
9 Firstly there is the union meeting at which Gomez 's nomination for a permanent rather than a temporary position as a chargehand in the factory is to be considered .
10 Some cardiologists complained that the heart could never be more than a temporary remedy and that the money spent on the research could be better used for drug therapies and other techniques .
11 However , for most airports with overall impact of the Tunnel is unlikely to be more than a temporary hiccup in the strong growth of traffic .
12 In general , the idea of forming anything more than a temporary joint household with one or other spouse 's parents is not seen to be a serious option .
13 The CGT , for instance , has regarded collective bargaining as no more than a temporary measure of the balance of power between management and unions , enabling the union to obtain the best negotiating results for wage-earners at a given point in time ( Goetschy , 1983 ) .
14 In short , tariffs by themselves would have been unlikely to have provided little more than a temporary palliative to ailing industries over the period under review .
15 It had been such an unsettled year altogether that he had had no opportunity for connected work of anything other than a temporary kind ; at the beginning of November , faced with the prospect of the British Council tours to France and Italy , he did not believe that he would be able to begin serious composition until the new year .
16 Although upon return to Canada for what might prove to be no more than a temporary visit the mother 's situation might be unsatisfactory and she might suffer discomfort or perhaps even hardship , there is no evidence that there is a risk , let alone a great one , that the child 's return would place him in a situation which is intolerable .
17 As we made clear in the previous chapter , its definition of temporary workers might well include people whose jobs are available on other than a temporary basis , but who only intend to stay in these jobs for a limited period of time .
18 But still it was clear that , amidst her preoccupations , there was scarcely room to think of him as anything more than a temporary ally .
19 The body is no more than a temporary earthly frame for a separate special creation ; it is the soul rather than the body which is endowed with intelligence , sense perception and moral judgement .
20 On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind .
21 the Leader ceasing to be a Member of the House of Commons ( other than a temporary cessation by reason of a dissolution ) ;
22 As Lord Tedder , the Chief of the Air Staff , had insisted earlier , without nuclear weapons of her own Britain would be no more than a temporary American advanced base in a major war .
23 ‘ Despite your obvious fondness for the place , you 're none the less nothing more than a temporary caretaker .
24 She had repeatedly told herself her response to his touch was nothing more than a temporary aberration on her part , that familiarity must inevitably breed contempt , that sooner or later she would feel nothing more than irritation .
25 And he insisted the new service was more than a temporary offer , declaring : ‘ This is n't a promotion — it is for always . ’
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