Example sentences of "[vb pp] at a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |
| 2 | League Cup success could n't have come at a better time for Rangers , nor for that matter could the return to goalscoring form of Ally McCoist . |
| 3 | League Cup success could n't have come at a better time for Rangers , nor for that matter could the return to goalscoring form of Ally McCoist . |
| 4 | That 's his first for the club and could n't have come at a better time for Hereford , though . |
| 5 | And it could n't have come at a better time for the 29 year old bowler in this his benefit season . |
| 6 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 7 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 8 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 9 | In Webb the employer was allowed to put forward an explanation , which was accepted as being gender-neutral , that an employee was needed at a specific time to be trained and to cover for a period of maternity leave with the probability of being retained as a permanent employee . |
| 10 | An endowment policy pays a capital sum to the insured at a specified time in the future , or on death if earlier . |
| 11 | Their responses affect the habits of nectar-seeking insects and the type of pollen that is being spread at a particular time of day . |
| 12 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 13 | Her discovery in Paris could n't have happened at a worse time from that point of view , and she would just have to accept it . |
| 14 | This idea that protect children , not tell them about what 's happening , I mean if anybody can protect them to that extent when even Neighbours is put at a different time on the television , you know , erm that somehow we make them warm and secure by not telling them , to me that is making them dependent and unable maybe to cope later on in their lives . |
| 15 | It was not created at a good time for ballet music and these scores are relentlessly trivial . |
| 16 | In a static , unchanging universe , the question of whether it has existed forever or whether it was created at a finite time in the past is really a matter for metaphysics or religion : Either theory could account for such a universe . |