Example sentences of "its [noun pl] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think the government should slow down on all its activities at the present time and concentrate on getting the economy right , and everything else put on the back burner . |
| 2 | He managed to convey some contempt for the TAS and its operations at the same time . |
| 3 | Like Hornblower , whose temperament was delighting readers with its contradictions at the same time as that of the Quinn adventures , Septimus has adopted certain measures of what could be called self-defence . |
| 4 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 5 | The Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge asked him to report on the work of its schools at the same time . |
| 6 | This catfish exhibits an usual form of ‘ parental care ’ , not dissimilar to that of the cuckoo — which is infamous for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds and leaving them to be hatched and raised by the involuntary ‘ foster-parents ’ In the case of Synodontis multipunctatus , it swims in and out among mouth-brooding cichlids which are in the throes of spawning and releases its eggs at the same time as the cichlid , whose eggs it often devours . |
| 7 | Rule 2 permits a litigant to apply to the court in an action against a firm for an order that full disclosure be made as to the identity and residence of its partners at the relevant time . |