Example sentences of "being but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ron Birch , the protest leader , said they would accept the fence for the time being but would step up their campaign to protect the trees from a surprise attack by council workmen . |
| 2 | Of course he was thirteen years older than her , she being but twenty ; but then she would take into consideration that he was the footman and it was a splendid rise for her from kitchen maid . |
| 3 | I am happy here for the time being but want the chance to move on to bigger things in the future . ’ |
| 4 | Intervention by the library committee has prevented the sales for the time being but it will be difficult to monitor such activities in the long term . |
| 5 | He conceded that his preferred solution of involving the Soviet Union in a guarantee was impracticable for the time being but it remained the most satisfactory long-term solution . |
| 6 | I 'll tell you what it 's a sound argument for the time being but it 's not a sound argument if we 're involved in a management buy out . |
| 7 | By investing a few million pounds into the anti-poaching forces of Kenya and Tanzania , as is happening at the moment , we will probably reduce and even stop the poaching problem for the time being but the long-term survival of the elephant in eastern Africa is going to depend ultimately on those countries ' abilities to incorporate wildlife and wild area protection into an overall land use policy . |