Example sentences of "be for [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 2 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 3 | A few , a tiny few , recognise how unreasonable this attitude is , but the overwhelming majority are for the time being standing firm . ’ |
| 4 | The following are the principal cases where that leave would be forthcoming : ( 1 ) relief is sought against any person domiciled in England or Wales ; ( 2 ) an injunction is sought ordering the defendant to do an act or refrain from doing anything ( whether or not damages are also claimed in respect of a failure to do something or for the doing of that thing ) ; ( 3 ) the claim is brought against any person duly served within or out of England and Wales and a person out of England and Wales is a necessary or proper party thereto ; ( 4 ) the claim is founded on any breach or alleged breach of any contract wherever made , which : ( a ) according to its terms ought to be performed in England and Wales , or ( b ) is by its terms , or by implication , governed by English law , or ( c ) contains a term to the effect that a court in England or Wales shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine any action in respect of the contract ; ( 5 ) the claim is founded on a tort and the damage was sustained or resulted from an act committed , within England and Wales ; ( 6 ) the whole subject-matter of the proceedings is land ( with or without rent or profits ) or the perpetuation of testimony relating to land ; ( 7 ) the claim is brought to construe , rectify , set aside or enforce an act , deed , will , contract , obligation or liability affecting land ; ( 8 ) the claim is made for a debt secured on immovable property or is made to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property ; ( 9 ) the claim is brought to execute the trusts of a written instrument , being trusts that ought to be executed according to English law and of which the person to be served with the originating process is a trustee , or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is brought ; ( 10 ) the claim is made for the administration of the estate of a person who died domiciled in England or Wales or for any relief or remedy which might be obtained when such a claim is made ; ( 11 ) the claim is brought in a probate action within the meaning of Ord 41 ; ( 12 ) the claim is brought to enforce any judgment or arbitral award ; ( 13 ) the claim is brought against a defendant not domiciled in Scotland or Northern Ireland in respect of a claim by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue for or in relation to any of the duties of taxes which have been , or are for the time being , placed under their care and management ; ( 14 ) the claim is brought in respect of contributions under the Social Security Act 1975 ; ( 15 ) the claim is made for a sum to which the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 15 March 1976 No 76/308/EEC applies , and service is to be effected in a country which is a member of the European Economic Community . |
| 5 | For the purposes of those provisions ( ss201 and 218 ) the settlement for IHT purposes shall be regarded as not resident in the United Kingdom unless the general administration of the settlement is ordinarily carried on in the United Kingdom , and the trustees or a majority of them ( and , where there is more than one class of trustees , the majority of each class ) are for the time being resident in the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | Holywood could yet clinch the single Section Two promotion spot but they seem intent on staying where they are for the time being . |
| 7 | If a local compromise between capital and labour is helpful to both accumulation and the standard of living of labour ( which it can be for a time ) , then most factions of the bourgeoisie and the working classes may support it . |
| 8 | By the Land Registration Act 1925 ( s70(1) ) : All registered land shall … be deemed to be subject to such of the following overriding interests as may be for the time being subsisting in reference thereto . |
| 9 | Yeah right as I 'm gon na be for the time |
| 10 | Marx and Engels ' arbiter model of the state suggested that if class forces in society were for a time evenly balanced , then the state bureaucracy and a strong political — military leader could intervene to impose stabilizing policies which were not controllable by capital , although they would be bound to maintain capitalist predominance in economic life . |
| 11 | Danish Christianity went back only to his grandfather Harald Bluetooth , and according to Adam of Bremen Christians were for a time persecuted by Swegen Forkbeard . |
| 12 | Ordinary arrangements for working the line were for the time suspended . |
| 13 | But the owner 's possession , and with it his actual power to exercise his rights , is for the time being gone ; he must recover the watch — as he may even lawfully do by his own act — before he can be said to be again in possession of it . |
| 14 | ‘ in a street ( or public place ) called … ‘ 'Street ’ is defined at section 1(4) Street Offences Act 1959 as any bridge , road , lane , footway , subway , square , court , alley or passage , whether a thoroughfare or not , which is for the time being open to the public , and the doorways and entrances of premises abutting on a street ( as herein before defined ) and any ground adjoining and open to a street , shall form part of the street . |
| 15 | the member of the House of Commons who is for the time being the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts ; |
| 16 | This is a direct and primary liability , though after an assignment it is normally accompanied by rights of indemnity against the first assignee , and also , where there have been further assignments , against the assignee in whom the lease is for the time being vested . |
| 17 | Somalia is for the time being represented by its interim government . |
| 18 | If his appointor is for the time being absent from the United Kingdom or temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature of his appointor . |
| 19 | If his appointor is for the time being absent from the United Kingdom or temporarily unable to act through ill-health or disability his signature to any resolution in writing of the Directors shall be as effective as the signature of his appointor . |
| 20 | On his return to the Westminster he was for a time senior house officer in the department of clinical measurement before becoming anaesthetic research registrar . |
| 21 | He had a very high reputation as a spiritual guide ( he was for a time Abbot of Bec in Normandy ) and teacher . |
| 22 | They tell us that a stonemason 's third marriage at 57 was his happiest ; or that a retired doctor found ‘ life was for a time difficult ’ for lack of ‘ any special hobbies . ’ |
| 23 | He was a prolific writer of learned articles in the Veterinarian of which he was for a time co-editor , and his classical education is reflected in his thoughtful commentaries . |
| 24 | But for many cities jealousy of Milan was as powerful as hatred of the emperor 's control , and a rival faction formed under Pavia which was for a time loyal to Frederick — a map of the two teams shows in a fascinating way how difficult it was to love one 's neighbour in this world of riotous freedom and traditional internecine feuds . |
| 25 | While Brunner 's theology was for a time regarded , especially in Britain and America , as more ‘ moderate ’ than Barth 's , and therefore preferable , he must now be regarded as the less radical and less creative of the two . |
| 26 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 27 | The last ( held by Florence Nightingale and Charles Kingsley , to name only two ) was for a time more popular than the first ; and although to some extent the preventive measures suggested by each did overlap , their priorities were somewhat different . |
| 28 | He was for a time in Ireland overseeing the introduction of these changes , and he and Thomas were both given substantial pensions ( £100 each ) in 1603 . |
| 29 | Between 1821 and 1842 he took out five patents , one of them for a ‘ suspension railway ’ which was tried out unsuccessfully in Cheshunt , and two relating to a system of constructing roofs and bridge decks in corrugated wrought or cast iron , which was for a time quite extensively used . |
| 30 | He was for a time the coach at Harrow School and , from 1857 to his death , secretary of the Cricketers ' Fund Friendly Society . |