Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think it would be a good time now to , to point out to the to s to er to say that we 'd like to have our views heard at that time . |
| 2 | It was the largest iron roof-span erected at that time , with arches composed of wrought-iron deck-beam spanning 153 feet 6 inches . |
| 3 | A conference of central committee secretaries of communist and workers ' parties aligned at that time to the Soviet bloc was held in Varna , Bulgaria , on Sept. 26-28 , 1989 . |
| 4 | If he does not , he has in effect accepted at one time the proposition ( the matter put upon the mat ) ‘ Telling even a minor lie to advance one 's career is always wrong , even though it harms no one ’ and at another time ‘ Telling a minor lie , which harms no one , in order to advance one 's career is not always wrong ’ . |
| 5 | But nobody could get the movie made at that time , and the question now was whether Val was n't too old for the part . |
| 6 | Many schools preferred at that time to have two paymasters rather than one , but in 1926 they were obliged to choose : those which thereafter received grants from the Board of Education in London , and not through the Local Education Authority , were reasonably enough known as direct-grant schools . |
| 7 | In practice the particle sizes in the sediment are computed from the weights settled at specific time intervals . |
| 8 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 9 | But I would n't have my photograph taken at that time at all . |
| 10 | Eden Hall was extensively rebuilt in 1935 or thereabouts , and much of the original fabric removed at that time , today it is a girls ' school . |
| 11 | People have told me the lemon was to mask the taste of the uneven products made at that time by unscientific country brewers ; I do not believe that . |
| 12 | Most stony meteorites formed at that time as did the irons , which had already solidified from cores or pools of molten metal that lay within their small parent bodies . |
| 13 | The work done at this time did , however , serve to educate the permanent officials in the new approach to economic policy . |
| 14 | In 1536 Sir Ralph Sadler complained : ‘ I think it will be hard to get any bills signed at this time … . |
| 15 | But in the absence of an increase in the speed of mechanization in the early seventies , the peak rates of accumulation achieved at that time generated peak intensities of demand for labour . |
| 16 | SIR — A recent article on inheritance tax assumed a husband left an estate above the top of the nil band to his wife and there was no inheritance paid at that time . |
| 17 | An overall monolithic plan established at one time is therefore impossible . |
| 18 | Thirty-four of the company 's reservoirs were contaminated with faecal coliforms , and drinking water was also found to contain excessive levels of pesticide residues. 80 per cent of its water supply areas failed at one time or another last year to meet statutory requirements . |
| 19 | Doubtless the adverts produced at this time of year have been successful in getting the message home . |
| 20 | They resolved that , if the money was now obtainable , it should be applied to assist the funds of the journal designated at that time the Veterinary Record ( not connected with the present journal of that name ) which was edited by professors of the College . |
| 21 | This is like the selective employment tax operated at one time in the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | Simon 's own statements made at this time betray a strong representational intent : while rejecting the forms of classic realism , the novel nevertheless retained its mimetic role . |
| 23 | Obviously Wordsworth thought that his poems would have some positive effect in this direction ; it becomes clearer why so many of the poems written at this time deal with ‘ domestic affections ’ , and in particular with the separation of mother and child . |
| 24 | Motors with even numbers of phases must have half of the phases excited at any time . |
| 25 | It was expected that a similar equation would govern the proton , the only other supposedly elementary particle known at that time . |
| 26 | Punjab had been under president 's rule since May 1987 and its assembly , suspended at that time , had been dissolved in March 1988 [ see p. 36692 for constitutional amendment passed at that time allowing for the continuation of president 's rule for three years ] . |
| 27 | A useful initiative taken at this time was the establishment of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre , designed to take cultural relations out of the hands of the ‘ Friendship Societies ’ which had restricted visitors from the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ to contact with groups of fellow-travellers in this country . |
| 28 | Volunteers worked on research alongside their paid counterparts and Burley recalls the hundreds of Spanish and Portuguese POCs on whose behalf Amnesty worked at that time . |
| 29 | His journal kept at this time shows the influence of Tersteegen , a German mystic . |
| 30 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |