Example sentences of "at time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they are a reality which Naipaul treats in such a way that they , too , can at times seem phantasmagorical . |
| 2 | He would appear to believe in an invented truth , an invented reality — a Rortyan reality , one might be inclined to call it at times . |
| 3 | The West has been grateful to Kundera , extravagantly so at times , and has shown an impulse to beat itself with his playful fictions . |
| 4 | At times a golden girl is present in the vicinity of the discussions of the subject that keep happening , and is felt to restore a balance . |
| 5 | Those who think that Jenny herself is a little dull at times might conclude that Patrick has impaled himself on that point , like one of those Romans whose language he used to teach . |
| 6 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 7 | Both Amis and Eliot can be considered seasoned disapprovers , and it is probable that Amis shares the other writer 's distaste for the biographical critic , whose activities may be responsibly conducted , and are generally acknowledged to have been successful at times , but have often been reckoned to fail . |
| 8 | He can look here at times a little like a man who has taken the first steps in a descent from the high ground of Self-consciousness , impersonality , fantastication and ironic indirection — not that this has lately been , or has ever been , literature 's only ground . |
| 9 | A World Apart is , ‘ despite ’ its author 's socialism , a ‘ deeply religious book ’ , in which she has at times the sense of ‘ a man talking to God ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ In the Lager , colds and influenza were unknown , but one died , at times suddenly , from illnesses that the doctors never had an opportunity to study . |
| 11 | Via the channels of public announcements at times of political decision-making , the bishops seek to enforce official Roman catholic morality on all members of the state . |
| 12 | Funny how unreal it all seems at times , he wrote . |
| 13 | But difficult at times to remember why I ever made such a plan , he wrote . |
| 14 | Sat there through the night , closing my eyes at times , then opening them slowly and allowing the glass to impose itself . |
| 15 | Alternative readings or critical analysis of this entrenched reverence for a rule of law ( which at times may well be out of step with a wider interpretation of ambiguous social behaviour ) smacks of subversion simply because it denies the primacy of the institutional framework . |
| 16 | At times it is even possible to lay out for examination the intense post-liminal rites and ceremonies of reincorporation required by the police institution as it seeks to draw the marginal mover back into the fold . |
| 17 | He argues that the body is an ideal vehicle for representing and symbolizing coherent models of experience and , at times , presents an intense framework for cultural expression . |
| 18 | At times his voice went through its paces almost independently of the sense . |
| 19 | It is as if , with the name , an extra dimension of personality is added — not merely as a pious recollection of the great , but as a stimulus ( at times a goad ) to the one so named . |
| 20 | We need to take good note of this , for it is an aspect of Leonard 's life , little stressed to be sure , at times perhaps deliberately down-played , that is of immense significance to him . |
| 21 | He follows the camp routines well , but at times he becomes disinterested and a little slow in carrying them out . |
| 22 | It may well be that his nocturnal anxieties began on hearing the nightly ministrations by which his father was nursed — to a young boy , eerie and mysterious , doubtless at times frenetic ; no doubt they were exacerbated after his death , as sorrow and loss impinged . |
| 23 | The language apart , Leonard also seems to have been drawn towards the scandal-provoking propensities of the social catalysts as well as their revolutionary emphases ; drawn towards them , at times suggesting some involvement with them , but always as an outsider to their cause ; never a fully committed revolutionary himself . |
| 24 | But it is very clear that it is present , though at times its influence waxed and waned . |
| 25 | And yet he speaks with painful recollection of the sense of alienation he felt at times , ‘ … |
| 26 | It would appear otherwise , at times , due to wording of newspaper articles . |
| 27 | I felt that on this particular piece it did struggle through the heartwood at times , especially on the figure 's right-hand side as this was extremely hard in places , with dense interlocking grain where a branch or branches had formed . |
| 28 | The thin edged-woodworking cutter blunts very quickly and at times produces a very chipped or chattering surface , so it is modified ( fig.1 ) . |
| 29 | It is likely that the funeral will be at times when the cemeteries or crematoria are not busy , such as early in the morning . |
| 30 | Finally , the departmental , engineering side also laid claim to its own clearly defined fleet of engines , which could be profitably loaned to the sectors at times of peak demand . |