Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed . |
| 2 | Please forgive the shortish letter , but I am trying to catch up for the time I was ill , and have quite a heavy teaching programme . |
| 3 | The only major event of the campaign , the call by Michel Rocard for a political ‘ big bang ’ on the Left to allow the creation of a new , broad based , social democratic party , appears to have fizzled out for the time being . |
| 4 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 5 | Kirov fell silent , knowing that he had said enough for the time being . |
| 6 | Mr Patten stays on for the time being as party chairman while he and Mr Major consider what should happen . |
| 7 | Sometimes it 's free ( or , to put it another way , you pay only for the time you access the system ) , at other times you pay per ‘ page ’ of information you read . |
| 8 | The result was that the story was set aside for the time being . |
| 9 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 10 | She reached out for the time and found that she had over forty hours still to go before she met the contact again . |
| 11 | ‘ Given the present and foreseeable state of fishery resources in the Community and the degree to which fishing fleets have so far been restructured , the full-scale liberalisation of the activities of undertakings must be ruled out for the time being … |
| 12 | probably part of the reason why they did n't for the time being |
| 13 | Leaving aside for the time being the question of ‘ hostile intent , ’ it is plain that it is not enough that the defendant deliberately does an act that has the incidental effect of obstructing the police ; he must also have some notion that he is obstructing and causing the police difficulties . |
| 14 | Peace within the new boundaries allowed Milan to make up for the time lost during the bloody years of Napoleon 's campaigns and the Risorgimento . |
| 15 | So that 's it — we deduct five overs and three runs for the rain interruption , plus another eight overs and four runs to make up for the time it 's taken us to work it out . |
| 16 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |
| 17 | that makes up for the time you , then doing the |
| 18 | When you come to retirement age , whilst not suggesting that you are past it , you are planning ahead for the time where you may not be quite as capable as were . |