Example sentences of "[vb pp] at a time " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had , after all , been built at a time when the rooms were heated by coal fires tended by an army of minions and when a score of carefully composed hand-written minutes by the Department 's legendary eccentrics were adequate to control events which now required three divisions and a couple of under secretaries . |
| 32 | And of course this whole area , I mean this whole area was , was built at a time when those factories were at their height , in the sort of late nineteenth century . |
| 33 | On the other hand , the doctor would probably be in breach of his duty if it could be shown that the patient 's request was made at a time when he was demonstrably and predictably suffering from a temporary condition which made his judgment unreliable . |
| 34 | They assert that the payments to Anser were transactions at an undervalue made at a time when the company was unable to pay its debts and within the relevant period of time stipulated in section 240 . |
| 35 | For instance , it must be at an undervalue and made at a time when the company was unable to pay its debts , the company must be in the course of being wound up in England or subject to an administration order , and so on . |
| 36 | That submission was made at a time when I was sch not scheduled to be present at this enquiry , and was not present . |
| 37 | When a member of the Royal Family becomes pregnant , an announcement is made at a time of their choosing . ’ |
| 38 | Such information implies a distance of 16 thousand million light years and that the galaxy is seen at a time 83% of the way back to the Big Bang . |
| 39 | He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) . |
| 40 | All of these needs , additional to the demands which confront individual teachers in their subject and departmental roles , have to met at a time when the morale of teachers is dangerously low , and the supply of teachers in some subjects and localities is breaking down . |
| 41 | Hannah 's film was transmitted at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday , 30 January 1973 , to an audience approaching five million — a very respectable rating for a documentary shown at a time when most people are either retiring for the night or thinking about it . |
| 42 | This relatively low figure no doubt results from the programme being broadcast at a time that is inconvenient to many viewers . |
| 43 | However , because only very small quantities are produced at a time , maximum sample recovery is of utmost importance . |
| 44 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 45 | Procedure c ) will require about one hour for each unit of work and it is anticipated that up to three units will be requested at a time . |
| 46 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |
| 47 | ‘ So , for instance , you may install Windows in the office , and if you want a compatible spreadsheet to use at home , you can install the DOS version there , provided that only one is used at a time . ’ |
| 48 | The whole-tone , or hexatonic , scale comprises only tones and no semitones , and so only two different scales are possible ( Example 80 ) : As the mixing of these two scales would introduce semitones and produce an effect of chromaticism , usually , in order to create the particular mood of whole-tone music , only one is used at a time . |
| 49 | The investigation will explore : ways of asking about sensitive issues ; the prevalence of a number of forms of sexual abuse ( for example , incest , rape , involvement in pornography ) ; whether the abuse was reported to anyone ; what coping strategies were used at a time ; and what the impact has been over time . |
| 50 | However , in order to be used successfully , pointing must be carefully co-ordinated with the child 's vocalisations and her direction of gaze and be performed at a time when the adult is attending to the child ( Lock 1980a ) . |
| 51 | Only one type of operation may be performed at a time . |
| 52 | For each package , the user can either ACCEPT or REJECT the SSR , however only one type of operation can be performed at a time . |
| 53 | The revival of takeover speculation — there is little doubt that European and Japanese buyers lurk — has occurred at a time when the merchant bankers , after a long period in the doldrums , are enjoying a rerating on trading considerations . |
| 54 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 55 | The crash had occurred at a time of clear visibility and good weather conditions . |
| 56 | He submitted that it was reached at a time when the essential principles of the law of negligence were established and properly represented the result of the application of those principles . |
| 57 | His father had thought it would be a good idea to ask for the boats to be blessed at a time when Whitby Harbour was crowded with the big Scottish fleet which was following the herring as they moved south . |
| 58 | In opposition , and to some extent isolated at a time of political consensus , Conservative educators like Professor Brian Cox and Dr Rhodes Boyson attracted considerable press attention through the publication of a series of ‘ Black Papers on Education ’ . |
| 59 | This is where the forces of the earth are exposed with a dramatic clarity and where billion-year old rocks , deposited at a time when seas extended right across the valley give the stark harshness of the area a startling and a rare and sometimes unexpected beauty at different times of the day . |
| 60 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |