Infinitive complement

• cover: The post is temporary to cover a period of Maternity Leave.

• begin: All roles are temporary to begin with but with serious long-term prospects.

Modifies a noun

• accommodation: Children living in temporary accommodation or poor quality social housing are at greater risk of fire.

• exhibition: Temporary exhibitions are already being hosted in an adjacent pavilion.

• closure: These temporary closures are advertised in the local press for the area of the closure.

• shelter: In other places I found families starting to clear the rubble around their homes to make space for temporary shelters.

• basis: Tom Wilson took over on a temporary basis along with Dennis Booth.

• suspension: FIELD SERVICES The mobility of offensive operations causes the temporary suspension of some field services.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: The entire policy was intended to be purely temporary, a transitional arrangement.

• however: How, then, can any stability of identity be achieved, however temporary?

• only: Like the winter months, the current slowdown is only temporary.

• mostly: Side-effects are the unwanted but mostly temporary effects of a successful procedure.

• usually: Students & library patrons: This error is usually temporary.

• sometimes: One way of avoiding redundancies is to agree a ( sometimes temporary ) reduction in pay with the affected employees.

Preposition: in

• nature: Most people have experienced ill health of one kind or another from time to time, but this has probably been temporary in nature.