Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The game at Rangers ' ground could begin to dominate Shearer 's thinking at a time when the only other striker available to Roxburgh , Hearts ' John Robertson , is carrying an injury from Saturday 's win over Falkirk . |
| 2 | In the campaign of 1968 , however , his public relations team claimed the emergence of a " new Nixon " , a man in tune with the nation 's mood at a time of crisis . |
| 3 | I am also extremely grateful that someone was generous enough to donate their relative 's organ at a time of extreme personal stress . |
| 4 | Michael Lee had grown up in London 's dockland at a time when prejudice towards the Chinese seemed to be at a height — and especially half-caste Chinese children , and there were few enough of those . |
| 5 | This was the final stage of a two-year investigation into the actions of five senators , all but one of them Democrats , who had intervened with regulators on Keating 's behalf at a time when he contributed some $1,300,000 to their campaigns and political causes . |
| 6 | Well there used to be one on the corner of Street and Street that was , that was a pawnshop right opposite the churches facing it the church were on the one corner Street and used to be on the opposite corner , and Johnny was a member of the church choir as I was after I was ten years ol ten years old , I Mr he must have thought I could sing he sent me down to St Paul 's and I , I went to St Paul 's Church on the corner of Street and I did n't stay there long because it was I was still working part- time I was still a schoolboy but er I did sing in the choir at St Paul 's Church for a time , and then I went , I went back to St Mary 's and All Saints in Palfry as a choirboy and er we used to have choir practice once or twice a week , I know we had it Wednesday night , the choir master was Albert Edward he was a butcher , kept a butcher 's shop on the corner of and |
| 7 | The first yard took all the effort I could manage , creeping a toe 's length at a time , my rubber soles slipping on the loose stones , as the wheelbarrow pushed me back to where I had been and we fell over . |
| 8 | Havel 's suggestion of a time limit was supported by federal Prime Minister Marian Calfa , who also proposed that the law should protect the civil rights of those screened , and by Petr Pithart , the Czech Premier . |
| 9 | The third case was impossible to assess , for Mrs Kitchener 's daughter did not want to be interviewed again , but the development officer 's account at a time when Mrs Kitchener had been known to the project for about a year gives some indication of the situation : |
| 10 | The incident precipitated three days of violence and looting that tarnished Miami 's reputation at a time when the city was preening itself for one of America 's premier sporting events , the Super Bowl . |
| 11 | Although the three earlier poems had been highly praised and widely read — their reception , Hayward told Frank Morley , had boosted Eliot 's reputation at a time when it was in danger of being obscured by younger poets — he was unable to finish the sequence . |
| 12 | We ate a day 's supply at a time , so there was never anything much in the house overnight except bread for breakfast and the staples that were bought on Saturday . |
| 13 | Schools did lose staff but it seems more likely to have been a reflection of the generally low level of teachers ' pay at a time of full employment . |
| 14 | So we u , if we use function key F seven we move through the document one word at a time backwards and F eight is the complimentary key to that we move through the document one fa word at a time . |
| 15 | No word of the Press Lord 's daughter or remarriage — one thing at a time . |