Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
| 2 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 3 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 4 | Moreover , the P cepacia problem has emerged at the same time as social networks have developed between adult patients with CF , and their families ; many individuals have derived great mutual benefit from these contacts , which provide for most of their social activity . |
| 5 | We have just noted how local politics in Britain has recently become more diversified , but , as Chapter 4 pointed out , this has happened at the same time as political power has become increasingly centralized . |
| 6 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 7 | We 'd started at the same time . |
| 8 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 9 | His next-door neighbours , who are getting married at the same time , also booked with Darlington Wedding Cars but they too have changed their booking . |
| 10 | It may have formed at the same time as Coed y Brenin . |
| 11 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 12 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 13 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 14 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 15 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 16 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 17 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 18 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 19 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 21 | The invitation could not have come at a better time . |
| 22 | For Sinton , who made his England debut in Poznan in the crucial final qualifier against Poland last November and was a member of the England B side that defeated France B at Loftus Road in February , that run could not have come at a better time . |
| 23 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |
| 24 | ‘ The cash could n't have come at a better time , ’ said George at their home in Swansea , Wales . |
| 25 | " You could n't have come at a better time , " said Fleury cheerfully . |
| 26 | ‘ This holiday has been a godsend and could n't have come at a better time . |
| 27 | It could n't have come at a better time . |
| 28 | League Cup success could n't have come at a better time for Rangers , nor for that matter could the return to goalscoring form of Ally McCoist . |
| 29 | League Cup success could n't have come at a better time for Rangers , nor for that matter could the return to goalscoring form of Ally McCoist . |
| 30 | ‘ Then my news could not have come at a better time ! ’ |