Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] for the time be " in BNC.

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1 But he dismissed them for the time being , having more important matters to be dealt with .
2 Would that suit you for the time being , Graham ?
3 Let us for the time being not take a stand on this issue but address ourselves to the whole phenomenon in its strong sense .
4 The big four have asked all Japanese corporations with equity-financing plans to postpone them for the time being .
5 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 .
6 ‘ Carry on seeing him for the time being .
7 ‘ Anyway , let's forget it for the time being .
8 ‘ As a pledge of my sincerity in the matter of the crowning of Prince Richard , I leave it for the time being with you .
9 The photo was in there , too , but she left it for the time being .
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