Example sentences of "time a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About the same time a papal envoy , Egidius , was despatched to gain news , followed by Cardinal Guido of Preneste , the pope 's personal representative . |
| 2 | By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | Lord Hunt , at the time a young official in the Dominions Office , offered a similar interpretation in his 1983 survey of what had happened to Cabinet government since Lloyd George and Hankey invented it in its modern form . |
| 4 | DesignaKnit is easy to use — but at the same time a well-designed package with an excellent range of options . |
| 5 | But by that time a grand station had already been built in the centre of Alexandria . |
| 6 | While this as such simply acknowledges the situation as it is and is followed by a far longer passage relating to the benefits of celibacy for the Western rite , it remains a highly important text because it is the first time a Roman Council or any major Roman document has explicitly accepted and recommended the uniting of priesthood and marriage in a single life . |
| 7 | Every time a concrete suggestion was made that they agreed on , someone would point out that the system , policy , or financial information just requested was already in place or something similar could easily be in place . |
| 8 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 9 | Whenever the doorkeeper opened up to let in an applicant who had left his card in time a great throng would press forward , hurling their plans through the door like assegais . |
| 10 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |
| 11 | After a time a small boy emerged from the banana grove carrying a kerosene stove , a teapot , a glass , a home-made seisha and a bag of bread . |
| 12 | It offers an impressive teaching faculty , and at the same time a small college atmosphere . |
| 13 | Since 1964 the Furniture unions have tried three times to organise the workers of Spiralynx ; each time a small number of workers have joined a union , the management have found out and workers have been dissuaded from joining . |
| 14 | In portraiture he obtained at the same time a good likeness , much appreciated by the sitters and their families , and , in these works and in his more fanciful subjects , he engendered feelings of respect and admiration . |
| 15 | A fair painting ; free in style but at the same time a good likeness . |
| 16 | And whether the wheel is turning too fast for them to cope with it somewhere along the line they 've lost control any and there 's still I 'm told young many a time a good shop steward and a good management should be a good team together , but erm unless they can work in harmony you know it 's no good . |
| 17 | Eventually , in 1902 , McKeich sold the Baron to James Kilpatrick for £700 , a considerable sum as at that time a good yearling could be bought for between £400 and £500 . |
| 18 | Although , as we shall see , a large proportion of divorced people remarry , there are at any one time a good number of single-person households or single-parent households created by divorce . |
| 19 | ‘ The Duchess had obviously seen the show before , ’ a member of the audience recalls , ‘ because every time a good line was begun by one of the actors she would finish it off quite loudly . |
| 20 | From time to time a harassed mother might rap angrily on the window to complain that she could n't get her push-chair past the car , which I had parked blocking the pavement . |
| 21 | Reforms began in selected rural areas , with the introduction of the ‘ responsibility system ’ by Zhao Ziyang , at that time a close associate of Deng . |
| 22 | Even if there is no difference in time a narrow strait can so canalise the tide that a powerful current is developed . |
| 23 | Using the 100-inch telescope on Mount Wilson , in 1923 Hubble identified for the first time a cepheid variable star in a spiral ‘ nebula ’ ( M 31 in Andromeda ) , and proceeded in the next few years to make similar discoveries in several other such ‘ nebulae ’ . |
| 24 | The White Paper also recognized publicly for the first time a stark fact that was becoming increasingly obvious : that with the steep decline in the birth rate the number of teachers in training would have to be sharply reduced to avoid a gross overproduction of teachers . |
| 25 | True , revolution was for a time a strong possibility , if not a probability ; and as true , such a revolution would of course have been seen as the means to industrial democracy by those who sought it . |
| 26 | Every time a tired traveller passed her cabin Babushka called , ‘ Friend , stop and rest in my cabin , ’ and the traveller did so . |
| 27 | To have made such an equation would have been to create an idol : an item in the creation ( not this time a golden calf but a person ) would have been deified . |
| 28 | As discussed in this chapter , a number of challenges must be met any time a transformational change is attempted : |
| 29 | Indeed , this became for a time a veritable obsession , giving rise in some academic circles to the idea of a whole new field of study , to be called ‘ psephology ’ , and in the lower reaches of political communication to the massive television coverage of national elections , in which precise calculations of ‘ swings ’ from one party to another and predictions of the eventual outcome of the electoral contest tended to overshadow any serious discussion of the substance of political conflicts . |
| 30 | One result would be that the Government could not time a general election to its own advantage , going to the country at the moment when it feels most popular ; so general elections might result in a change of Government more often . |