Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |
| 2 | In Fig 36 an example is given of a holding pattern that has been completed in a time of 4 mins 28 secs . |
| 3 | Only two of Ulster 's 32 clubs play their hockey on grass and Gavin realises that Portrush are caught in a time warp which could hinder the North West outfit 's progress . |
| 4 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 5 | Poland had been trapped in a time capsule , and try as it might to struggle free , the parameters of its political and spiritual life had been set firm for years to come by the humiliation of invisibility . |
| 6 | Most of her boyfriends have been collected at a time of crisis in their lives , lame ducks , my father calls them , who tend to move on when they have reorganised their existence , not wanting to be taken over . |
| 7 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 8 | It had , after all , been built at a time when the rooms were heated by coal fires tended by an army of minions and when a score of carefully composed hand-written minutes by the Department 's legendary eccentrics were adequate to control events which now required three divisions and a couple of under secretaries . |
| 9 | However , because only very small quantities are produced at a time , maximum sample recovery is of utmost importance . |
| 10 | Only one or two young are born at a time and they are transported in an unusual manner by the mother — by hanging on to her greatly elongated teats . |
| 11 | I am locked in a time warp , but I 'm lost in several time warps . |
| 12 | He predicted that the course record was likely to be broken with a time inside one hour and 50 minutes . |
| 13 | People aim at achievements to be completed in a time process and talk about how they order their priorities accordingly . |
| 14 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 15 | The sessions can be arranged at a time and place suitable to your drivers . |
| 16 | Education is often the first to be squeezed at a time of cuts . |
| 17 | Secondly when potential actinomycin binding sites are in close proximity ( for example in GCGC ) only one of the potential sites can be occupied at a time . |
| 18 | This analysis is complicated by the overlap between these two sites meaning that only one GC can be occupied at a time . |
| 19 | He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) . |
| 20 | However , in order to be used successfully , pointing must be carefully co-ordinated with the child 's vocalisations and her direction of gaze and be performed at a time when the adult is attending to the child ( Lock 1980a ) . |
| 21 | Only one type of operation may be performed at a time . |
| 22 | For each package , the user can either ACCEPT or REJECT the SSR , however only one type of operation can be performed at a time . |
| 23 | Design services will also be performed on a time and materials basis by STB engineering consultants . |
| 24 | Design services will also be performed on a time and materials basis by Sparc Technology engineering consultants . |
| 25 | Procedure c ) will require about one hour for each unit of work and it is anticipated that up to three units will be requested at a time . |
| 26 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |
| 27 | Instead , they emphasized that the detailed cement sequences revealed by CL could be used as a time framework upon which to locate other diagenetic events , providing a complete ‘ diagenetic stratigraphy ’ . |
| 28 | I take note of what my Hon. Friend says : it is a great pity if any parish church has to be locked at a time when members of the public may wish to enter it . |
| 29 | They seem to be locked in a time warp but this has become their biggest selling point because , by remaining stubbornly unlike every other manufacturer , their instruments can not fail to be distinctive . |
| 30 | They come in a variety of sizes as do the internal filters , but a much wider choice of filtering mediums is available and more than one can be employed at a time . |