Example sentences of "[adv] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm the pressures in the E C at the moment , I think , would be better handled if as nations come , en democratically , economically , erm they come into the E C , not perhaps at the right time for those that are inside , because that might be too late frankly , but but they 're not pushed into the E C en bloc , too early . |
| 2 | Only at the right time with the right leader and the right audience can strategy become vision and leadership become visionary . |
| 3 | Although no figures are yet available , this rate has probably flattened in 1990 and 1991 and may well prove to be around eight per cent or less at the current time . |
| 4 | Since the female is only on heat for a few days and the males are often widely scattered , these scents are vital for bringing the sexes together at the right time . |
| 5 | The election arrived just at the right time . |
| 6 | He said to me , ‘ I just feel it 's all coming right just at the right time ; something 's going to happen this week . ’ |
| 7 | Then he landed in Oxford just at the right time to go out to the factory and it was open , and you had to get your car as soon as you could and see that everything was all right . |
| 8 | The Hochhauser Season had come along just at the right time , a time when she needed a little excitement , a little glamour , a little of the old camaraderie that she had known with her friends in Vienna . |
| 9 | Hopefully United could have found their form just at the right time . |
| 10 | THE recovery in the housing market has come just at the right time for CALA , the Scottish house-builder , which saw interim losses nearly double to £2.85 million . |
| 11 | He said , just at the right time he decided that he ca n't get bath any more . |
| 12 | Yes , well fortunately this whole Gulf thing seems to have died down will be dying down just at the right time . |
| 13 | He can tell them in training , but they 've got to perform out there on the pitch , and probably this game has come just at the right time , after suffering a defeat like that , this is the time to get out there and show the supporters what they can really do . |
| 14 | Just at the present time everything looks so fresh . |
| 15 | Professor Connor , in a fascinating paper on computers in classical studies , claims that computers came just at the wrong time , at a time when scholar 's interests were moving from textual studies to critical theory , women 's studies and the like . |
| 16 | She always slings my card just at the wrong time . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that the removal of the child by this mother was done precipitately at the very time when the child 's future care was already under consideration by the Ontario court . |
| 18 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 19 | Due to the very poor response to the meeting called by Councillor Mrs Robertson it was agreed to pursue the matter no further at the present time . |
| 20 | Do come home at the agreed time ; if you 're going to be unavoidably late , ring your babysitter and let her know . |
| 21 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 22 | He appealed to any member of the public who had been in the neighbourhood of the deceased 's home at the critical time to come forward . |
| 23 | This does s seem to be in line with with practice nationally at the present time . |
| 24 | They portray the fact that , yes , they come into public consultation — yes the do , not always at the right time . |
| 25 | To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation . |
| 26 | Until recent years the general rule has been to require the consent of a parent or guardian for an operation or an anaesthetic on a person of under 21 , but increasingly at the present time it is becoming customary to accept the consent of minors aged 16 and over . |
| 27 | ‘ We were very lucky when we first came over , ’ acknowledges Niall with a hearty slug of purified H 2 O. ‘ We did n't know what was going on in London , we were just here at the right time to entertain everyone . |
| 28 | It takes perverse joy in getting hard at the wrong time , causing its owner no end of embarrassment and inconvenience . |
| 29 | The remaining four had all been backstage at the relevant time , or could have been , but the motives Charles had managed to dredge up for them did n't survive close scrutiny . |
| 30 | I arrived there at the due time and waited and waited , but no corporal appeared . |