Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 2 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 3 | The revival of takeover speculation — there is little doubt that European and Japanese buyers lurk — has occurred at a time when the merchant bankers , after a long period in the doldrums , are enjoying a rerating on trading considerations . |
| 4 | It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time . |
| 5 | Police said this morning that the Nissan vehicle had not been reported stolen at the time of the accident . |
| 6 | The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment . |
| 7 | A more elaborate discussion of such structures has appeared at the time of writing ( Chadwick 1985 a and b ) . |
| 8 | Mr Milburn says this has happened at a time when unemployment in the constituency is going up . |
| 9 | It is important to note that the preferential creditors are given priority where a receiver is appointed with respect to a charge ‘ which , as created , was a floating charge ’ ; thus the fact that the charge has crystallised at the time a receiver is appointed does not result in preferential debts being denied their statutory priority . |
| 10 | You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down . |
| 11 | I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time . |
| 12 | Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks . |
| 13 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 14 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 15 | I think if you do n't do that , you 'll very easily become over-influenced at the time by the fact that it is a crisis you 're dealing with . |
| 16 | There are recognized ways of doing things that ensure that the job gets done at a time when we are probably incapable of thinking things through carefully . |
| 17 | We ( or they , as I would probably have said at the time ) now lived in a detached , fairly large house in a village in Berkshire ; my father taught at a primary school in a nearby village , and my mother had a job at the Harwell Atomic Research Establishment . |
| 18 | But they 're going to develop a ride which will recreate how it must have felt at the time . |
| 19 | Then , alone there in his room , I began to laugh , as I should have laughed at the time . |
| 20 | The hammered coin finds do not indicate the same form of activity that would have occurred at the time the weights would have been lost so two different forms of activity must have taken place . |
| 21 | You 're laughing bravely , it must have hurt at the time . |
| 22 | How she regretted those words now , however true they might have seemed at the time . |
| 23 | But I could at least sense that even the most feared and serious of all the mental illnesses did have something to do with me , however disturbing that may have seemed at the time . |
| 24 | An added precautionary measure is to form Newco specially for the management buy-out rather than acquire a shelf company , because a shelf company 's accounting period may have commenced at a time when its Memorandum of Association does not reflect the relevant purpose test , for example , where a general trading company is purchased and turned into a holding company . |
| 25 | We should have realized at the time that in the emergency of AD 196 there would not have been time to build walls round town defences . |
| 26 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 27 | Before exceptional items , Kingfisher also topped the profits forecast made at the time of its French acquisition , Darty , turning in £234.4 million before tax for the year to the end of January , an increase of 5.7 per cent . |
| 28 | Erm , immediately as we went in it was er a very poorly furnished room erm I 'm going in there 's a window on the far side and there was a small single bed erm which to all intents and purposes appeared un-made at the time and there was a duvet covering it |
| 29 | To have eaten at a time like this would have seemed all wrong . |
| 30 | They clinked their glasses ; then Martin , walking towards the long window , said , ‘ It 's a good job I did n't become engaged ; you should n't get married at a time like this . ’ |