Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] one time " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he does not , he has in effect accepted at one time the proposition ( the matter put upon the mat ) ‘ Telling even a minor lie to advance one 's career is always wrong , even though it harms no one ’ and at another time ‘ Telling a minor lie , which harms no one , in order to advance one 's career is not always wrong ’ . |
| 2 | Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant . |
| 3 | Use a variety and put it in more than one spot , if you have space , to allow more birds to feed at one time . |
| 4 | Opponents of the curfew claim that forcing every bar to close at one time or , as proposed , requiring nightclubs to close their doors at 1.30 while allowing drinking until 3am or 4am , would lead to a flood of pub-goers hitting the streets at once , exacerbating the problem . |
| 5 | An overall monolithic plan established at one time is therefore impossible . |
| 6 | All three countries have at one time or another during the 1980s had recourse to the IMF for standby loans . |
| 7 | Thirty-four of the company 's reservoirs were contaminated with faecal coliforms , and drinking water was also found to contain excessive levels of pesticide residues. 80 per cent of its water supply areas failed at one time or another last year to meet statutory requirements . |
| 8 | This is like the selective employment tax operated at one time in the United Kingdom . |
| 9 | Historically , the town looked at one time as if would become the main centre of Thames Valley affairs . |
| 10 | The Hong Kong government fears the market may be thinking the same way : in late April it announced legislation to formalise the power of local banks to pay negative interest rates on Hong Kong dollar deposits ( just as Swiss banks did at one time when the Swiss wanted to discourage an inflow of foreign money into the Swiss franc ) . |
| 11 | Expectations had at one time run high , but a parallel case of offence by weakness emerged from the accounts of the home . |
| 12 | I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar . |
| 13 | No one could work as many as 35 hours per week since Age Concern was unable to provide full-time contracts ; however four support workers in Newham and three in Ipswich did at one time work 20 hours or more per week ( see Table 3.3 ) . |
| 14 | There were two outbuildings across the yard ; one looked like a converted barn and the other had at one time styed pigs . |
| 15 | It is up to 50 feet high , overhanging throughout and wide enough to allow 15 or more teams to operate at one time . |
| 16 | If you attempt to have more files open at one time than allowed for BBCBASIC(Z80) , the file will not be created and you will get a " Too many files open " error . |
| 17 | It was apparent as the light grew that the rocks which lay scattered among the trees had at one time been arranged in order . |
| 18 | This student had at one time worked in catering until her love for learning foreign languages prompted her to tackle French and Spanish as a mature student . |
| 19 | Coping and support networks can be built up gradually as part of a group exercise and on your own and can provide a forum for discussion and shared experience as well as letting off the inevitable steam and frustration experienced at one time or another . |
| 20 | With a number of programs running at one time , several windows can appear on the screen at one time . |
| 21 | The idea behind Windows is to have a number of processes running at one time , each in its own clearly defined area of the screen — and for the purposes of this review , I 'm counting Program Groups as tiny processes . |
| 22 | There is also the supportive evidence of a later Greek tradition that skins had at one time been used as writing paper . |
| 23 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 24 | The majority of hairdressers in the North West have at one time been trained by him . |
| 25 | Subsequently , most Scottish rural areas , mid- and North Wales , the Pennines and parts of Devon and Cornwall have at one time or another been designated as Assisted Areas ( see figure 3.3a ) . |
| 26 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |
| 27 | Many of the country 's senior religious leaders sat at one time or other in the shade of its trees and listened to the Ayatollah Khomeini 's lectures on the intricacies of Islamic law . |
| 28 | Ignoring the remainder of the world 's population , Mechanic defines hypochondria as a disorder experienced at one time or another by some 70 per cent of apprentice doctors . |
| 29 | Fifteen hundred men worked at one time in what became the largest copper mine in Europe — a vast open-cast quarry hewn out of the hilltop . |
| 30 | Busacher had at one time been surprised at Willi 's musical perception , but was no longer . |