Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] for the [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 2 | But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with . |
| 3 | Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ? |
| 4 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |
| 5 | On this last point let me for the present be content with a simple observation . |
| 6 | Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense . |
| 7 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 8 | If you do exercise one for the time being do n't worry about that one , exercise three . |
| 9 | The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being . |
| 10 | Ever since John Marshall , its first chief justice , discovered that the court had the ability to overturn legislation that did not accord with the constitution , it has been indispensable in bolstering the central tenet of American democracy : that no grant of governmental power to those who exercise it for the time being is limitless . |
| 11 | ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , let's forget it for the time being . |
| 13 | I had intended to try and ring Jo as soon as I got in , to find out what the hell was going on , but I never made it for the house was in turmoil . |
| 14 | ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you . |
| 15 | The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being . |
| 16 | Agnes sighed , then bit on the front of her forefinger before she turned to Jessie again and said , ‘ Look ; if you 're so sure he 'll turn up , we 'll say nothing for the time being . |