Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] a 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 | Mr Milburn says this has happened at a time when unemployment in the constituency is going up . |
| 7 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 8 | There have been occasional remarks that some players may have dallied for a time with what are known as recreational drugs . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex . |
| 11 | On a rocky unmade track through the olive groves , we might have strayed through a time warp into a Biblical landscape . |
| 12 | After this he seems to have retired for a time to his Scottish estates . |
| 13 | To have eaten at a time like this would have seemed all wrong . |
| 14 | Some of the largest marsupials ( Diprotodon ) seem to have survived to a time tantalisingly close to the present . |
| 15 | He would have liked , Adam knew , to have lived in a time when a father could forbid his son to do things and the son would obey . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The crash had occurred at a time of clear visibility and good weather conditions . |
| 18 | The issue , which had allowed successive governments to mobilize national sentiment , had surfaced at a time when Serrano 's popularity ratings were at an all-time low . |
| 19 | It had happened at a time when all I had to offer him was absolute misery for both of us . |
| 20 | About 80% had always had an off-farm job and of the others most had started at a time of extra financial pressure on the farm , for example low prices for produce , loss due to weather or stock health problems . |
| 21 | He had lived for a time in England , and we discussed whether to conduct the session in English or German . |
| 22 | What had begun as a time saving essential has now become my hobby . |
| 23 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 24 | ITN 's cash problems have come at a time when news is more in demand than ever |
| 25 | We are naturally disappointed that substantial catastrophe losses have come at a time when the pace of our underlying recovery is accelerating , but we are confident that the improvement in our performance is soundly based and will continue to show through as strong management action proves increasingly effective . ’ |
| 26 | You have appeared at a time when things are rather … odd . |