Example sentences of "for the [noun] being [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this has resulted in our profit for the Division being significantly higher in the second half compared with the first half of the year . |
| 2 | ‘ The only reason for the peephole being there is for employees of the hotel to watch people undressing , showering or involved in sexual intercourse , ’ said lawyer Jerry Summer . |
| 3 | The Matthew Nelson computer laboratory designed to meet the special needs of students with physical disabilities was opened in Murray Hall with equipment for the laboratory being generously donated by the Hewlett Packard Company . |
| 4 | Most of the copper roofs had disappeared off public buildings , to make driving bands for the shells being so voraciously expended at Verdun , and the park railings were about to follow the roofs . |
| 5 | For some countries , like Greece , Portugal and Ireland , no doubt there will continue to be largesse to be gained from her , though for the time being even this is likely to be hard to come by , as Germany piles money into her eastern territory and focuses much of the rest of her financial attentions on her former Communist neighbours . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I now know for certain that Selina Street is n't tucking Alec Llewellyn , or not for the time being anyway . |
| 8 | Yes , they 're all trained in first aid , erm erm and in the use er we also carry the analgesic gas , now the ones that er nitric oxide which is used in er pregnant mothers for childbirth , they carry some of that now , er which they administer to people in pain and that takes away the pain erm for the time being anyway , until such time as you can extricate them or , or ease the pain or take away the problem away from them that 's causing them the pain . |
| 9 | Make no mistake , for the time being anyway , this is not a false position . |
| 10 | With these conditions fulfilled , generally or for the time being locally , people would live as free and tolerant individuals , finding their deepest values in the consequent kinds of human diversity and intimacy . |
| 11 | For the time being however , interferon remains very much an experimental drug whose full clinical value has yet to be determined . |
| 12 | She realizes that she is as yet too selfish to be truly creative and puts off her artistic endeavours for the time being so that she can first learn the more humble task of interpretation . |
| 13 | Erm with a thing like this , I mean what I usually say to people it depends on erm if you 've got a lot of numerical data , oh you might as well have this back for the time being so |
| 14 | They have decided not to declare the company in default for the time being only because of the continuing discussions between Eurotunnel and the contractors , Transmanche Link . |
| 15 | For the time being therefore , the Pope agreed to stay his hand against the bastard daughter of a renegade heretic . |
| 16 | Instead of the present arrangements which have served us so well , a politician in London for the time being Home Secretary will appoint five members to the authority , or roughly a third when the size of the authority is larger than sixteen . |
| 17 | This has been postulated as one of the reasons for the disease being more common among male homosexuals — anal intercourse being more traumatic than vaginal intercourse and being more likely to cause skin tears . |