Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 With the current cuts in housing expenditure , however , very few tenants are likely to be rehoused from the lists at the present time .
2 Because of that , it is important that we take the right steps at the right time to ensure the right results .
3 Darlington police want to speak to anyone who may have seen suspicious activity around the health authority offices at the estimated time of the incident .
4 The operation was completely successful , and the undamaged clothes were in the shops at the designated time .
5 well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ?
6 Well yes but also say the right words at the right time yeah ? yep .
7 I would not want to rule out closer contacts with the Iranians at the right time .
8 Rejecting a suggestion from Zambia 's President Kenneth Kaunda that the ANC should suspend its armed struggle in order to encourage further reforms on the part of the Pretoria government , Mandela said the ANC would make no concessions at the present time .
9 One discouraging aspect of the relations between nations at the present time is that there is little indication of a decline in nationalist sentiment or in the fervour with which particular national interests are pursued .
10 Yet he had photographs of her in every jacket pocket , and they fell out of books at the wrong time and upset Eva ; and when he asked me about Mum , Dad and I had to go into another room , away from Eva , as if we were discussing something disgraceful .
11 Neither approach by itself is adequate to take account of the complexities involved in meeting the needs of our children and our schools at the present time .
12 Erm , there are no agreed sites at the present time .
13 Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain .
14 Last night , he must have done about three grams of the white stuff , plus cognac to stop the shakes , plus not going to bed all night , plus having to behave like a serious grown-up with his trainer and make sure his homes were going to the right races in the right countries at the right time , plus a screaming anxiety attack about his father and Butler and the mess his life was in , plus the horrific combined effects of the morning and the country air .
15 The king , troubled by the prince 's displays of temperament and his unwillingness to follow the advice of those who had charge of him , mindful also of his own unrobust health , considered it would be unwise for himself and his brother to receive visitors at the present time .
16 UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots …
17 The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver .
18 In Rangoon Nu announced : ‘ AFPFL is not calling for a general strike among workers at the present time .
19 ‘ We need the right pressure at the time places at the right time , ’ said BA director Tim Godfray .
20 There are a number of imponderables at the present time e.g. the rates to be charged by CCC when it becomes an agency in 1992 , the high annual cost of a direct link , the number of and cost of training staff to prepare data for processing at a bank or internally with a software package available on a PC system .
21 Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled .
22 If we 'd done the wrong things at the wrong time , it could have been the end of Cowley .
23 The first area , which will be no surprise to readers of The Bookseller , is the mind-boggling rate of change that is affecting all businesses at the present time .
24 This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time .
25 And I do n't want to give those figures at the present time .
26 These floods probably constitute the main agent of erosion in deserts at the present time .
27 He tries to fix dates at the key time of Jesus ' birth and beginning of his ministry ( Luke 2:1 ; 3:1 ) .
28 Your GP or health visitor will make the necessary arrangements at the correct time .
29 Your GP or health visitor will make the necessary arrangements at the correct time .
30 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 .
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