Example sentences of "[conj] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had stopped the car and climbed out , she wondered for a moment whether she had come on the wrong day or at the wrong time , though she was sure she had not . |
| 2 | Computers , especially microcomputers and terminals with monitors , have been claimed to be harmful to the health of the operator because of radioactive emissions although at the present time there does not appear to be any conclusive proof that a real danger to health exists . |
| 3 | In relation to Europe and 1992 , it is expected that there will be substantial growth in many markets ( particularly Spain ) , although at the present time EC rules and regulations on pensions are still being liberalised . |
| 4 | ‘ We will tackle that at the appropriate time , ’ said Aycliffe , adroitly side-stepping this issue . |
| 5 | I think it true to say that at the present time it is not at all difficult for academics to appear in print . |
| 6 | Yet it is inevitable that at the present time of confusion and reform we ask why we should be dependent upon these two great blocks of examinations , at these two particular points in a student 's school career . |
| 7 | Personalities apart , it is convenient that at the present time the following Departments should also be represented in the Cabinet — Home Office , Ministry of Labour and Board of Trade . |
| 8 | It is thus clear on the basis of all these authorities that at the present time universities can create a jurisdiction for the visitor which excludes the concurrent and appellate jurisdiction of the courts . |
| 9 | The evidence is that at the present time there is a serious lack of resources to care adequately for the number of sufferers living in ordinary housing , and that this mismatch between numbers and resources is likely to increase at least to the end of the century . |
| 10 | Although I consider that at the relevant time Lautro 's Rules , and thus its procedure , were defective in the respects I have outlined , for the reasons I have given I conclude that Lautro were not required by law to afford to Winchester the opportunity to make representations as to why an intervention notice should not be served before deciding whether or not to serve such a notice . |
| 11 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 12 | Rather , our results imply that at the preheadfold time of treatment ( 7.5d.p.c. ) , a certain degree of regional variation has already been specified at the level of rhombomere pairs ; retinoic acid is unable to override the specification choice of an odd- or even-numbered character . |
| 13 | Throughout the last 120 years , the demands on the experience and accumulated information of the Geological Survey in Scotland have never been greater than at the present time . |
| 14 | Firstly , when we were first discussing the sale , the market was somewhat more buoyant than at the present time . |
| 15 | However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it ! |
| 16 | Our 1963 Herald 12/50 was keen to get going , and at the allotted time we set off through the Borders and towards North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | Provided Mr X was not domiciled in the United Kingdom when the settlement was created and at the relevant time , eg the death of the son , the assets were not located in the United Kingdom , inheritance tax would not be in point even if the son is domiciled in the UK . |
| 18 | It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled . |
| 19 | Another angle on psychological differences between blacks and whites is given by Worthy and Markle who argue that white sportsmen do better at self-paced activities , ‘ ones in which the individual responds , when he chooses , to a relatively static or unchanging stimulus ’ , whereas blacks have an edge in reactive activities , ‘ in which the individual must respond appropriately and at the right time to changes in the stimulus situation ’ ( 1970 ) . |
| 20 | Under the Mental Health Act 1959 patients maintained on guardianship orders knew that drug treatment could be enforced and therefore appeared regularly for depot injection on the right day and at the right time without pressure or demur . |
| 21 | Done correctly , and at the right time , it can add power to the technique being performed . |
| 22 | The young South African concluded he was in the right place , and at the right time . |
| 23 | Is he not interested in ensuring that building skills are available and , more importantly , that homes are made available in the right place and at the right time ? |
| 24 | Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 . |
| 25 | Similar displacements occurred and Africans were confined to reserves in Kenya , or to tribal trust lands in Zimbabwe ( Southern Rhodesia ) and at the present time in the Bantustans by the Republic of South Africa . |
| 26 | There is in this respect a total difference between Community legislation and British primary legislation , in respect of which there is no obligation to state reasons and at the present time no practice of doing so . |
| 27 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 28 | We have also suffered from rain in the wrong place and at the wrong time . |
| 29 | Hahnemann and his followers left us a legacy of many hundreds of remedies and the number has continued to grow until at the present time there are between two and three thousand remedies in the homoeopathic materia medica , each with its remedy picture , some of which have been more extensively worked out than others . |
| 30 | The reasons for this are not clear , but at the present time two diseases in particular , syphilis and type-B viral hepatitis , seem to be largely the preserve of the male homosexual . |