Example sentences of "have [verb] 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 The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment .
6 A more elaborate discussion of such structures has appeared at the time of writing ( Chadwick 1985 a and b ) .
7 Mr Milburn says this has happened at a time when unemployment in the constituency is going up .
8 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 .
9 You know I mean it 's so annoying and I wish now I 'd done at the time , wrote their names down .
10 I suddenly felt nauseous with anger and humiliation — none of the things I 'd felt at the time .
11 Which , she 'd thought at the time , were appropriate registration letters for her cousin Paul Gray 's car , missing now for nearly two weeks .
12 She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks .
13 He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time .
14 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 .
15 But they 're going to develop a ride which will recreate how it must have felt at the time .
16 Then , alone there in his room , I began to laugh , as I should have laughed at the time .
17 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 .
18 You 're laughing bravely , it must have hurt at the time .
19 How she regretted those words now , however true they might have seemed at the time .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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
24 To have eaten at a time like this would have seemed all wrong .
25 ‘ We think the drain cover must have been removed by accident by a farm machine and no-one had realised at the time , ’
26 Headhunting in Britain was imposed — seeming alien at first — in the search for remedies for Britain 's national corporate ills ; in America it had burgeoned at a time of growth and prosperity .
27 Although the Supreme Court had ruled that amendments should be ratified within a reasonable period in order to reflect a contemporaneous consensus — the time limit most usually accepted was seven years — no such restriction had applied at the time when the amendment was first sent to the states for consideration .
28 Baldwin , following the conclusion of certain pacts with Philip Augustus , sought to extricate himself from the possible threat of excommunication and interdict on his lands which he had accepted at the time of the agreement if certain conditions were not fulfilled .
29 Their prosecutors at the trial of the politburo took pleasure in revealing how many cartons of Western cigarettes each of the defendants had possessed at the time of the revolution .
30 A month later , during investigations made by 5 Corps after the repatriations were over ( see Chapter Eleven ) , statements were taken from a number of officers in the Durham Light Infantry and 46 Recce Regiment , describing what they had seen at the time .
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