Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these jealousies and disappointments and doubts were forgotten for the time being in the face of adversity . |
| 2 | During my first year as a prisoner some of us were moved for a time from Silesia to a camp in the Polish corridor . |
| 3 | An engineer designing a horseless carriage is not obliged to retain structural features that existed solely to adapt the carriage to the horse ( although , in fact , such primitive features were retained for a time ) . |
| 4 | History , Sociology , Philosophy and Psychology were enshrined for a time . |
| 5 | One or two , their horses killed under them , were held for a time unable to fall , and others slithered into the river , its shore by now churned into slime , and drowned there in their harness . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Furthermore , since I disagree with the view of the Divisional Court on this point in Ex parte Handscomb , but the Home Secretary was obliged for the time being to follow it , there is little logic in saying that he should have extended it to mandatory cases . |
| 9 | The war intervened with the result that this urgent question was postponed for the time being . |
| 10 | In fact , the snow was so heavy that the airport was closed for a time , briefly raising the hope that Professor Pollard would be stranded in Athens for several days ! |
| 11 | During the 1890s , Millbottom was run for a time in conjunction with Days Mill . |
| 12 | A night-time curfew was imposed throughout the country on Oct. 2 ; this was extended for a time to 24 hours on Oct. 5 when it appeared that the rebels had reached the capital . |
| 13 | Guatemala has relied heavily on external aid , especially from the United States , though this was suspended for a time under the Carter administration because of Guatemala 's human rights record . |