Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |
| 2 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |
| 3 | And thirdly , and certainly not erm least , we hoped ourselves to benefit at a time when the Government cutbacks were just come into force , which were requiring us to raise erm more income from non-government source . |
| 4 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 5 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |
| 6 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 7 | It seemed to work at the time . |
| 8 | With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta . |
| 9 | Fourthly , Woolwich was not , of course , to know at the time of the payments that it would succeed in the judicial review proceedings . |
| 10 | Fourthly , Woolwich was not , of course , to know at the time of the payments that it would succeed in the judicial review proceedings . |
| 11 | I was not familiar enough , yet , with the light nights of the Highlands to be able to guess at the time , but the sky was paler , and the stars were fading . |
| 12 | In the bond market , the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling ; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it can not sell in such conditions , that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling . |
| 13 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |
| 14 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 15 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 16 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 17 | In other words , only one gene was allowed to mutate at a time , and that gene was allowed to change its " value " only by +1 or -1 . |
| 18 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 19 | There 's three players per team ( chosen before the match ) , but only one gets to play at a time ( plus a computer-controlled goalie ) . |
| 20 | We may defensively claim that it was the right thing to do at the time . |
| 21 | ‘ There was n't anything to do at the time . |
| 22 | I picked out a selection , deciding on even numbers only because it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time . |
| 23 | It was a reasonable thing to do at the time as the fund was in surplus . |
| 24 | First , black workers were recruited for precisely those jobs , usually poorly paid and involving unpleasant working conditions , which the indigenous white working class was able to reject at the time of economic expansion , thus preventing the development of bottlenecks in production and permitting higher levels of capital accumulation . |
| 25 | He had always been a socialist and a pacifist , a brave position for a man in public life to adopt at the time , and he and his colleagues paid a heavy price for his principles when in 1940 the BBC banned the Glasgow Orpheus Choir from the air waves . |
| 26 | Fairyland was once called Mirryland or Marayland , and it was here witches claimed to ride at the time of their Sabbats . |
| 27 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |
| 28 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 29 | You have attempted to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run at a time in the past . |
| 30 | Heron shows in his article a deep sympathy with Braque 's work , which , incidentally , was a sort of painting he himself was seeking to practise at the time . |