Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] times to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a North-countryman , and the bluntness of his approach to many issues should be considered , I think , as a traditional North-country attitude , exaggerated at times to the point of obtuseness ; it may have been merely a defence mechanism . |
| 2 | However it may feel at times to them as individuals , and whatever compulsions they sense from relatives and friends to ‘ get through ’ their course , the fact is that they could withdraw without any legal penalty at least . |
| 3 | Britain seemed at times to be close to open class war ; Mrs Thatcher denounced ‘ the enemy within ’ . |
| 4 | Rory made left and right turns in quick succession , seemed to go back on himself , seemed at times to be driving blind . |
| 5 | Heaven forbid , but the urge to shoehorn into the calendar as much of it as possible continues unabated , leading at times to brain-numbing events such as the three-match Pakistan versus England knockabout immediately after the World Cup — which was a bit like lighting the cigar after a five-course a la carte dinner , then having the waiter arrive with a tureen of porridge . |
| 6 | What the Independent very badly needs is very solid professional newspaper management er to go along with the good franchise which it has created erm and a proper owner who can actually er do what all of us in newspapers have to do from times to times which is back a promising newspaper . |
| 7 | BJORN BORG has a typically stubborn riposte to those saddened by the sight of one of the game 's greatest champions being reduced at times to a level barely above that of a novice . |
| 8 | The Waste Land seems at times to be attempting to piece together some new religion out of fragments of the old . |
| 9 | He seems at times to be reassuring himself of his grip upon a world of his own devising . |
| 10 | Gilligan seems at times to be suggesting that women are naturally , rather than socially , inclined towards giving relationship-oriented moral judgements . |
| 11 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |
| 12 | It is tempting to imagine an exchange of information and assistance between gypsies and witches , both being subjected at times to severe persecution . |
| 13 | It is said to drop at times to below 8 , but I have never yet lost it with 7 × 50 binoculars . |
| 14 | The Royal Navy equivalent award — the Distinguished Service Cross ( DSC ) , and the Army equivalent award — the Military Cross ( MC ) , will be covered in a later article within this series , both awards having been awarded at times to members of the RAF . |
| 15 | Both stand outside religion , as formally understood ; but sympathetically , as if longing at times to be inside , and sadly conscious of its insuperable intellectual difficulties . |
| 16 | In short , the CD3 is a solid and meaty sounding deck , verging at times to rich in balance , yet remaining tonally close enough to neutral to avoid censure on the grounds of lack of tonal realism . |