Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | But for a time in 1990 it seemed likely to split apart . |
2 | The costs of ruling an " empire " were high , but for a time in the 1760s the revenues of northern India were almost self-supporting , with no bullion being exported in 1767 – . |
3 | But for the time being , with a young family at home , he is very happy to have switched to contract catering . |
4 | But for the time being it gives Japanese firms a small advantage . |
5 | The steamroller had hit a bump , but for the time being it was back on course . |
6 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |
7 | But for the time being , dancing meant little to him . |
8 | The cost of the replacement equipment is thus reduced and may attract CGT when it is disposed of ; but for the time being , liability for CGT is avoided . |
9 | But for the time being this will do nicely . |
10 | Later we will discuss different technical constructions , but for the time being we will define precisely what makes melody , and what , probably , makes it distinctive . |
11 | In later years Nietzsche came to have a more favourable attitude to these aspects of classical studies , but for the time being his dissatisfaction was almost unqualified . |
12 | But for the time being the whole field of myth was reinterpreted in terms of Dionysiac pessimism and thereby revitalized , gaining a new weight and significance . |
13 | Whether such a prognosis is indeed likely or not is a question to which we shall return shortly , but for the time being let us merely note the danger , which is in any event a very real one , and pass on . |
14 | ‘ There is a possibility that this chap will move to another university next year , but for the time being I 've had to look for a way to take the heat off . |
15 | The impact of molecular biology will eventually revolutionise our whole way of thinking about cancer and is management , but for the time being three areas are receiving particular attention : |
16 | But for the time being this will do nicely . |
17 | But for the time being I happen to think it best to wait a little , in the hope that something triggers your memory into returning of its own accord . ’ |
18 | We still have a detective sergeant and a couple of local officers working on it , but for the time being we 've run out of anything to go on . |
19 | We still have a detective sergeant and a couple of local officers working on it , but for the time being we 've run out of anything to go on . |
20 | But for the time being conservationists everywhere are happy to know that the swans and the anglers are no longer rivers apart . |
21 | But for the time being , the first salmon skin shoes are expected to be ready for sale in 8 weeks time . |
22 | But for the time being , Private Morrison 's family , already overcome by grief , can only wait and hope his body will be released to them soon . |
23 | But for the time being , they 're happy to lap up the hospitality of their rescuers . |
24 | But for the time being , for this group of travellers at least , the party 's over . |
25 | It was n't loud and she could n't distinguish anything he said , but during the time she was in the closet she could hear it droning on , with breaks here and there when her mother must be speaking . |
26 | He 'd had a real pimple when he arrived , but during the time he took to find and bribe an official to provide the documents , the blemish had healed , . |
27 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
28 | A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact . |
29 | Some of the demonstrators were denied access to the Diamond by police tenders drawn up across Shipquay Street but after a time the RUC withdrew altogether and the Diamond was filed by the vast crowd . |
30 | At first this was merely the usual paranoid rumour inevitable under a ruthless regime where informers abounded , but after a time a more imaginative version emerged . |