Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one delegate to the discussion put it ‘ The women still do n't understand what the real world is like when it comes to their commercial value but at least they 've realised for the time being that they have bitten off more than they can chew . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ In this section , section 84 , Schedule 12 and Schedule 13 … ‘ action ’ includes any failure to act , and so as regards ‘ exercise ’ in relation to any power ; and ‘ action , ’ in relation to a society , includes action on its behalf by any body associated with it ; ‘ prescribed , ’ in relation to matters of complaint , means prescribed for the time being in Part II of Schedule 12 and , in relation to the respects in which a complainant is affected by any action , means prescribed for the time being in Part III of that Schedule as grounds for making action subject to investigation under the scheme ; … |
| 3 | ‘ In this section , section 84 , Schedule 12 and Schedule 13 … ‘ action ’ includes any failure to act , and so as regards ‘ exercise ’ in relation to any power ; and ‘ action , ’ in relation to a society , includes action on its behalf by any body associated with it ; ‘ prescribed , ’ in relation to matters of complaint , means prescribed for the time being in Part II of Schedule 12 and , in relation to the respects in which a complainant is affected by any action , means prescribed for the time being in Part III of that Schedule as grounds for making action subject to investigation under the scheme ; … |
| 4 | The shares carry the right to five weeks a year of free accommodation at the resort , which is being developed as a time share enterprise . |
| 5 | Her father was under clad for the time of year but was sweating heavily . |
| 6 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
| 7 | The convoy was halted for a time by protesters at Dalreoch , on the Dumbarton-Helensburgh road , again at Helensburgh and on the third occasion at the protest camp at the gates to the base . |
| 8 | Sotheby 's then heard from Michael Hebecker , Director of Schlossmuseum Gotha , informing them that , while the auction house had behaved fairly and correctly in offering the picture to the museum first , the permission to sell the Wtewael had been granted in his absence and with neither his knowledge nor consent , and asking them if the picture could be withdrawn for the time being . |
| 9 | We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs . |
| 10 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 11 | This means that the model of continuous and homogeneous time which Lévi-Strauss had also argued against can not here be regarded as the time of history . |
| 12 | Traditionally the period of the Hundred Years War has been regarded as the time when the crown of France made great steps forward towards the achievement of a policy of centralisation begun under the Capetians some two centuries earlier . |
| 13 | This period could be regarded as the time when our service began to emerge from a kind of amateur status to that of a more professional one . |
| 14 | From the present viewpoint this can be regarded as the time component of the metric equation for space–time round a spherically symmetric mass . |
| 15 | Conversely youth is depicted as a time of vitality and good health . |
| 16 | Elsewhere in the country , one polling station in the south was occupied for a time by Khmer Rouge troops , who eventually stole a UN car and left . |
| 17 | All these jealousies and disappointments and doubts were forgotten for the time being in the face of adversity . |
| 18 | Old feuds have been forgotten for the time being . |
| 19 | She 'd become accustomed to his remarks about her unwanted presence , but she had believed him to be resigned for the time being to having her around . |
| 20 | the number of virtual memory segments addressed during the time the processor is available to it |
| 21 | Through Hoskyns he had come for the time under the influence of the leader of anti-rational European theology , Karl Barth , who at this moment was back in Basle after being expelled from Germany by the Nazis . |
| 22 | The prescribed element is , in effect , frozen for the time being and should not be paid by the employer . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sorry ’ , said the Christie 's receptionist , ‘ but the Sackler sale has been cancelled for the time being … |
| 24 | This method therefore had to be cancelled as the time the carrier could remain at Greenock was severely limited . |
| 25 | In Rockingham and Whittlewood they appear to have been discontinued after the time of Charles I , and in 1789 the Rt . |
| 26 | He watched me , smiling but sharp , and for some reason — for no reason — I was reminded of a time at school when I had tried to make one friend betray another , and failed . |
| 27 | I am reminded of the time when we were leaving Italy after a while in the Dolomites and spent all our Italian cash in the last café making a phone call , only to find that the café owner was adding a surcharge to the bill . |
| 28 | Dear Guitarist Catching Nirvana 's ‘ performance ’ on the recent MTV Video Music Awards I was reminded of the time when , as a youngster , the guitar-smashing exploits of my heroes — the likes of Townshend and Hendrix — left a bad taste in my mouth . |
| 29 | In the adventure of everyday life , on the other hand , the characters are affected by the events ( however fantastic ) that befall them , and the progression of changes fixes the order of events , giving a materiality to space as the scene of transformation and metamorphosis : ‘ Space becomes concrete and saturated with a time that is more substantial . ’ |
| 30 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |