Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun sg] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the union , an interim injunction prevents the calling of a strike or other action at a time which the union has decided is the most effective . |
| 2 | I think , like all moderate people , that one step at a time is no bad thing . |
| 3 | Since the question is now whether a government exists , there is no room for more than one government at a time nor for separate de jure and de facto governments in respect of the same state . |
| 4 | They are also quite interested in voyeurism , S&M , prostitution , sex with more than one person at a time and all forms of pornography . |
| 5 | ( MULTIPAG ) Equally you can open more than one spreadsheet at a time and can use commands and write formula that make cross references , an ability that also extends to spreadsheets that are not open but are available on the current disk . |
| 6 | No more than one pill at a time is needed and the effect is not stronger by giving a full bottle . |
| 7 | Contexts which do activate more than one sense at a time give rise to the variety of oddness we have labelled zeugma : |
| 8 | Mark carefully where the pipe is to be bent : do not attempt to make more than one bend at a time without checking |
| 9 | SYMAP can be used on line-printers as well as dot-matrix printers ; the principle is the same , the only difference being that the line-printer outputs a full line at once rather than one character at a time , as is the case with the dot-matrix printer . |
| 10 | There 's also support for multiple columns , although you ca n't see more than one column at a time unless you 're in Page Preview mode . |
| 11 | This is likely to be useful if your scanner is capable of handling more than one sheet at a time , since you can rad a whole batch of pages at a go . |
| 12 | It is possible to record from more than one subject at a time on a single EEG machine , so that it is common to have two bedrooms equipped with headboards ( into which the electrodes are plugged ) — for instance as in the Department of Human Sciences at Loughborough University — or to have two headboards and beds in a single bedroom , as in Hull . |
| 13 | The frescoes allow more scope , but even they show little more than one event at a time . |
| 14 | There are no internal bonds or hierarchies which the outside powers can use to control the behaviour of more than one individual at a time . |
| 15 | I never knit for more than one hour at a time ; after this I go and make a cup of coffee , pop to the bathroom , feed the cat , water the plants , in fact any small job that takes about ten minutes . |
| 16 | This enables to possibly hit more than one unit at a time . |
| 17 | To describe this as sewing is perhaps slightly flattering to the bird , for the silken thread is never used for more than one stitch at a time . |
| 18 | Throughout the Sixties various means were employed to give the cast time off , though not normally for longer than one week at a time . |
| 19 | True , these sources overlap , different as they may be in the nature of their risk , difficulty , and complexity , and the potential for innovation may well lie in more than one area at a time . |
| 20 | It is not necessary to give a patient more than one remedy at a time . |
| 21 | As a matter of fact she finds it quite hard to teach more than one group at a time , and many children spend part of the day on low-supervision activities or ‘ busy-work ’ , which does n't really move their thinking on . |
| 22 | Catering for more than one language at a time |
| 23 | Catering for more than one language at a time |
| 24 | The contradictions remain but they only become tension and conflict when we are under pressure to perform more than one role at a time . |
| 25 | Cooking time will need to be extended when cooking more than one product at a time . |
| 26 | If one attempted to present a computer with more than one program at a time , it would be unable to deal with the situation and would indicate that an error had been made . |
| 27 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 28 | She says ‘ no ’ more often , rather than suffering or withdrawing , and she is able to remind people of her difficulty in concentrating on more than one thing at a time . |
| 29 | I believe harmonic poverty is often caused by a student 's perfectly natural inability to think of more than one thing at a time . |
| 30 | On the whole , he disliked comparisons , because they made you think about more than one thing at a time . |