Example sentences of "[noun] at one time or another " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another resident , who asked not to be named , said : ‘ Everyone has had trouble with the gangs at one time or another . |
| 2 | It will do no harm to recall that is what democracy originally meant and was : state and society at one , the citizen body governing itself directly , through active participation in politics , a duty which fell upon every citizen at one time or another . |
| 3 | Amongst the many who have owned pubs at one time or another , Willie Johnson runs ‘ The Port Rae Bar ’ in Kirkcaldy , Doug Smith the ex-Dundee United centre — half runs ‘ The Athletic Bar ’ in Dundee 's Hilltown , Joe McBride the former Celtic striker runs ‘ The Wee Mill ’ near Shawfield , Danny McGrain runs ‘ Danny Mac 's ’ at Parkhead Cross , Davie Hay briefly managed his own pub and Dixie Deans of Celtic runs Carluke 's ‘ Station Bar ’ . |
| 4 | Most of the major software houses have offered competitive upgrades at one time or another , and see it as a good way to gain a bigger market share . |
| 5 | During the course of 1990 , nine water companies warned consumers to boil tap water at one time or another . |
| 6 | The combination of the path of that the moon travels and the rotation of the earth means that the moon at one time or another covers the whole goes round goes above all different circ all different places on the earth . |
| 7 | Some twenty per cent of all Oscar-winning actors , actresses and directors have been married to each other at one time or another . |
| 8 | ‘ Most of us use the booths at one time or another , and they are the obvious place to go if you need a picture for your identity card . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It was a marvellous afternoon with a huge turnout of people , most of whom were his patients at one time or another . ’ |
| 10 | Resorts : French speaking Verbier can lay a justifiable claim to be the best skiing in Europe — and to attract the most gung-ho British visitors ; all addicts must visit Zermatt , Grindelwald /Wengen/Murren and Davos/Klosters at one time or another ; Andermatt is an off-piste paradise ; Engelberg is recommended for intermediates , as is Champery , a pretty village with good access to the huge Portes du Soleil circuit : beginners do not need to go to Switzerland , but Saas Fee is a good place to learn if you must . |
| 11 | The first and most important consideration is that in the forty years since 9 August 1945 , despite the fact that all the nuclear powers have been involved in wars at one time or another , nuclear weapons have not once been used militarily . |
| 12 | LOOK , this is a problem which afflicts most men at one time or another . |
| 13 | I 've had my reservations about all three of these acts at one time or another , but , standing here , gripped and pulsing , in Chicago University 's Mandel Hall , my veins pumping nothing but Dr Pepper and fatigue , it become obvious that I WAS WRONG ALL THE WAY . |
| 14 | But precisely in that act of consignment you may have committed an unconscious iconoclasm — for each of the above-mentioned artists at one time or another personally designed his own exhibition announcement . |
| 15 | They could imagine what conditions must be like up in the mountains , having done their stint in the sticks at one time or another . |
| 16 | People who have spent a lot of time with horses will have seen most of these emotions in horses at one time or another . |
| 17 | Most adults at one time or another suffer from bleeding gums . |
| 18 | Pearce nevertheless made a point of visiting every single British Aerospace factory at one time or another during his seven years as chairman , some of them more than once . |
| 19 | Mr Hyde also provided ACCOUNTANCY with a list of 18 KPMG , PKF and Haines Watts offices that had been listed on the system at one time or another . |
| 20 | As for the stigma the child might face , does n't everyone have to live with some kind of stigma at one time or another ? |
| 21 | It featured more than five locos in steam at one time or another . |
| 22 | It is now common in most accounts to begin with the proviso that the designation ‘ nouveau roman ’ is merely a convenient quasi-journalistic or even marketing label attached to an otherwise heterogeneous collection of writers , sharing little other than the same publishing house at one time or another ( Editions de Minuit ) . |
| 23 | All of these species have been recorded eating mountain goats at one time or another , but whether they are regular or serious predators on the goat is another matter . |