Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] at the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty .
2 And so it was actually becoming dangerous at the same time .
3 As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed .
4 Willie has completed 25 years service , also starting as a bank boy , then via spool setting to become a weaver before he was made redundant at the same time .
5 The heroes of the hour were left-hander David Byas and Craig White , who both came good at the same time to record their career-best Sunday scores .
6 Though the commission could buy by agreement it had to have effective powers of compulsory purchase if it was ‘ to ensure that the right land is made available at the right time ’ .
7 Dexter recalled that halfway through the homelessness report Nicola had delivered a short lecture about the appalling conditions in which one family lived while managing to look stunning at the same time .
8 and a brush and they supply the and that 's it , you pay and get pissed at the same time .
9 It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves .
10 But Brewer has an uncanny knack of getting injured at the wrong time and so hooker Sean Fitzpatrick will be in charge for the first time .
11 It seems appropriate at the present time , therefore , that the suspicion of PVI , particularly in patients with decompensated liver disease as indicated by the presence of an appreciably reduced portal blood flow , needs to be confirmed by conventional arterial portography .
12 The only one of the top four never to lift the crown , White , a 9–2 shot , is building confidence on coming good at the right time , winning the British and European Opens .
13 Complaints of headaches should be taken seriously and genetic counselling made available at the appropriate time .
14 As far as we 're concerned , cycling is the best way to see the countryside and keep fit at the same time . ’
15 Well they knew that I was a graduate in erm , they had two , they had a , a lab manager and an assistant , and they both went sick at the same time , and er , they asked me if I 'd do it .
16 I kept falling asleep at the wrong time like an old tramp .
17 It would be the last straw if her husband tried to get romantic at the wrong time of the month .
18 Planners need a thorough understanding of the subject field to be explored , and its structure in enquiry ; they need to know what materials , print-form or audio-visual , are available , and suitable , and what special problems they may reveal ; they need to have available at the right time suitable equipment , and places where the equipment may be used , and they need to be sure that the student is able to find and make use of all the resources he may need in the periods of the timetable allotted to the activity .
19 They were also raising money for the Anthony Nolan Bone Marrow Appeal and making a dream come true at the same time .
20 If more than one guard becomes ready at the same time , the choice of which one to execute is nondeterministic ( there is no left-to-right precedence rule as with IF ) .
21 It 's an opportunity for the company to become efficient at the same time , to have new life injected into it , to bring on and develop talented younger people who might otherwise become stifled and consequently up and go .
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