Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun sg] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meantime , what better case could there be for staging the Germany game at a time of fixture congestion than the fact that 10,000 youngsters , who watched the tie against Malta free of charge , have paid £1 a head to return to Ibrox on Wednesday . |
| 2 | It is perhaps ironic that Neal — so critical of the selections of Revie and Robson — arrives back on the England scene at a time when Taylor is coming in for internal FA criticism for picking too many players . |
| 3 | The company had stuck with the infant system at a time when it could easily have collapsed , and the ITA 's credibility with it . |
| 4 | For these reasons , and together with the appearance of a number of wealthy families in the village , Blockley joined the silk industry at a time of great expansion for the industry . |
| 5 | He was a radical and something of an agnostic , and read a long paper on the evils of war at the Union Society at a time when such views were certainly not popular . |
| 6 | The aggressive marketing of seats to foreign cosmonauts on short duration Soyuz flights to the Mir space station in order to recoup some of the costs [ see pp. 37437 ; 37932 ; 38219 ] was also unpopular among many officials involved in the space programme ; they felt that it devalued the space programme at a time when the Zenit and Energia super boosters remained grounded with technical problems [ see p. 37797 ] and the first manned mission of the Soviet Buran shuttle had been postponed , at least to 1993 . |
| 7 | He stressed that he had relinquished his deferment after only two months , thereby allowing his name to go back into the draft pool at a time when he could not have known that the draft would be shortly replaced by a lottery system . |
| 8 | A related belief is that reducing the prison population at a time of rising crime is not possible , not least because ‘ public opinion ’ would not countenance it . |
| 9 | The Offline Operator does not log onto the LIFESPAN system or VMS , as the Offline System will start automatically on the Operator terminal at a time previously specified by the Offline Manager at Update Offline Parameters ( option 9.2.0 ) . |
| 10 | yeah yeah we were just , we 're just sort of moving a car length at a time were n't we ? |
| 11 | They are suing the firm for allegedly flying them into a war zone at a time when both British and American governments were aware an invasion was taking place . |
| 12 | Takeover offers are also regulated and affected by the SARs ; the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( references to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ) ; European Council Regulation ( EEC ) 4064/89 ( merger control ) ; the Company Securities ( Insider Dealing ) Act 1985 ( which prohibits a person from dealing in securities which are listed or subject to a marketing arrangement at a time when he is in possession of unpublished price-sensitive information ) ; liability for negligent misstatement and for misrepresentation ( both at common law and under the Misrepresentation Act 1967 ) ; and Statements of Standard Accounting Practice 22 and 23 ( accounting for goodwill and for acquisitions and mergers ) . |
| 13 | The reluctance of the judge at first instance to adopt a policy approach at a time when the obvious intention of the Act , not to mention the thrust of securities regulation in general , was to clamp down on market abuse , can only be described as an anomalous , not to mention unwelcome , development . |
| 14 | ‘ Additionally could we ask whether it would be possible for you to attend a recording studio at a time convenient to yourself and allow us to record you reciting the refrain ‘ I 'm Roy , I 'm Roy — Roy Of The Reds Am I ! ’ |
| 15 | I hobbled over to collect the missing shoe and the dress detached itself a press stud at a time , disengaging itself completely as I bent — bottom to camera — to retrieve the shoe . |
| 16 | Favourites were ‘ confetti strikes ’ , where different workers struck for a set period at a time determined by the last digit or colour of their registration cards . |
| 17 | Peter Lorre had left the home of his Jewish family in the Austro-Hungarian Empire to become a travelling player at a time when in a different part of the Empire another Jewish family were training their son to join them as travelling players . |
| 18 | Now they were seeping into the consciousness of people within a milieu which , rejecting straight left politics , was searching for a route out of a hippy enclave at a time when the political temperature was rising . |