Example sentences of "was for the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) was for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic |
| 2 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) was for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic ’ This offence can not be committed where the constable or traffic warden are not engaged in the regulation of traffic . |
| 3 | ‘ where a police constable ( or a traffic warden ) was for the time being engaged in the regulation of traffic ’ This point is proved by stating so in the constable 's or warden 's statement of evidence , e.g. ‘ I was engaged in the regulation of traffic to allow pedestrians to cross safely ’ . |
| 4 | He had lost his job because the club where he played the piano had to close and , though he was after another one on the switchboard in a hospice , he was for the time being at a loose end . |
| 5 | They constitute an acknowledgment by the delegates , committee and officers that the Association was for the time being inadequately organised and funded for undertaking major tasks on the national scene . |
| 6 | All right , I knew the cockroach treatment was for the time when I made my centipede on a string crawl up Shirnette 's back . |
| 7 | Immediately after the elections a subcommittee was set up by the Legislative Assembly to study the proposals , but progress was for the time being halted , after objections from the Chinese government , as reported in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 21 , 1989 . |
| 8 | In July 1857 even Kiselev believed that because emancipation with land was for the time being impossible , freeing the serfs ought to be postponed for the foreseeable future . |