Example sentences of "but [prep] the time [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the time being , with a young family at home , he is very happy to have switched to contract catering . |
| 2 | But for the time being it gives Japanese firms a small advantage . |
| 3 | The steamroller had hit a bump , but for the time being it was back on course . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But for the time being , dancing meant little to him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But for the time being this will do nicely . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 : |
| 13 | But for the time being this will do nicely . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But for the time being conservationists everywhere are happy to know that the swans and the anglers are no longer rivers apart . |
| 18 | But for the time being , the first salmon skin shoes are expected to be ready for sale in 8 weeks time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But for the time being , they 're happy to lap up the hospitality of their rescuers . |
| 21 | But for the time being , for this group of travellers at least , the party 's over . |
| 22 | Changes can be made in the look of any step not by a change in the tempo but in the time signature : for example , dancing a pas de basque to a 2/4 or 6/8 instead of the usual 3/4 . |
| 23 | Later she was to wish that she had neither been so deceitful , nor so colourful , but at the time excitement and expediency combined carried her away . |
| 24 | The social historian can now fit this slump into the wider pattern of events that was to add up to the Great Depression but at the time motion-picture executives in production and distribution were more given to introspection than to socio-economic analysis . |
| 25 | But by the time crime categories or definitions have been established , the most important foundation stone of ‘ our crime problem ’ has been well and truly buried in cement , beyond the reach of any liberal ‘ scientific ’ shovel . |
| 26 | It is possible to start off with just one or two tags which control the main typographic elements but by the time page numbers , headers , footers , indexes , etc have been added the list can get unwieldy . |
| 27 | Daylight was just around the corner however , but by the time daylight did arrive , although she and her pride were very much certain that she 'd see Vendelin Gajdusek in hell before she ever spoke to him again , certain other practicalities had entered her head . |
| 28 | An object close to the camera , with a very short out-and-return light-path from flash to film , will be imaged while the sound-pulse is still at the back of the emulsion but by the time light from an object 15 metres away has reached the film , the sound-pulse will have reached its front face . |
| 29 | The two girls were both on night duty and they waited in vain all night , hoping against hope that Steve and his crew had perhaps been forced down somewhere , but by the time dawn came up and there was still no news , they realised he was just another casualty . |