Example sentences of "time a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were times when Eliot seemed uncertain or ill at ease , suddenly very much the " resident alien " — one has the impression , always , of a man invaded by inexplicable moods and anxieties which he did his best to conceal — and Hayward 's own dominating and very English manner afforded him at such times a certain amount of confidence . |
| 2 | Van Soest has achieved a considerable feat in guiding the reader through the complexities of ruminant nutrition with great clarity and at times a fine sense of humour . |
| 3 | It reinforced existing values , satisfied needs , but was at times a potential source of conflict in that it forced the ablest educatees away and drafted in some unwilling educators . |
| 4 | By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Lord Hunt , at the time a young official in the Dominions Office , offered a similar interpretation in his 1983 survey of what had happened to Cabinet government since Lloyd George and Hankey invented it in its modern form . |
| 6 | DesignaKnit is easy to use — but at the same time a well-designed package with an excellent range of options . |
| 7 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 8 | The new fact in the world 's history is that for the first time a great power with a formidable Navy , a population from which vast armies might be raised , and an economic and financial strength which might alone be decisive in any future conflict , is prepared to stake its own peace , not merely to guarantee its own interests , nor to further the partisan aims of its allies , but to make an end in the world of the possibility of prosperous aggression … . beyond the American continent her only interests are the open door to trade , freedom of the seas , and the maintenance of peace . |
| 9 | Since 1964 the Furniture unions have tried three times to organise the workers of Spiralynx ; each time a small number of workers have joined a union , the management have found out and workers have been dissuaded from joining . |
| 10 | Although , as we shall see , a large proportion of divorced people remarry , there are at any one time a good number of single-person households or single-parent households created by divorce . |
| 11 | Reforms began in selected rural areas , with the introduction of the ‘ responsibility system ’ by Zhao Ziyang , at that time a close associate of Deng . |
| 12 | One result would be that the Government could not time a general election to its own advantage , going to the country at the moment when it feels most popular ; so general elections might result in a change of Government more often . |
| 13 | This time a tiny replica of the survey vessel was circling the equator inside the orbit of both moons . |
| 14 | There is a corresponding and no less seminal change in painting : the abandonment of the single ground line on which all figures rest ; a change which makes painting no longer simply the decoration of a flat surface but at the same time a feigned window on the three-dimensional world . |
| 15 | The force expanded , working conditions improved , and for the first time a limited capacity for detection was developed . |
| 16 | At that , time a similar proportion of Members of Parliament were female . |
| 17 | The Savoy again , but this time a private room for their , quite large , party . |
| 18 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 19 | It is true , however , that taken as a whole , the 1947 Act created for the first time a comprehensive framework for planning and thereby laid the groundwork for a permanent and highly significant change in the public attitude to private property and its use and development . |
| 20 | I was in touch several times by telephone , and I remember noticing for the first time a slight labouring for breath on his part , which was to become increasingly marked . |
| 21 | Although the accommodation remained spartan with bunk beds arranged in segregated dormitories , nevertheless , at a cost fixed at 1/ per night plus a shilling for breakfast , extended holidays in the countryside became for the first time a practical possibility for thousands previously denied them . |
| 22 | The last time a net surplus in global lending had been recorded was in 1983 , when rising levels of bank interest and a strong dollar had left many commodity-dependent countries unable to service their existing obligations . |
| 23 | At the same time a reasonable increase in filtration would be needed because of the larger amount of water and , to be honest , I should have built my original brick filter larger than I did . |
| 24 | The aim is to ensure not only that all important titles are held in stock , but also that as far as possible there is on the shelves at any one time a reasonable coverage of material in all subject fields . |
| 25 | Provided that the sea has been eroding for a sufficient length of time a negative movement of base level results in a raised beach , consisting as a rule of an eroded platform of solid rocks with or without a covering of beach deposits . |
| 26 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 27 | And I was at that time a married man with two children . |
| 28 | Virtually unchanged since Norman times , the beating of the bounds takes place each time a new member of the family inherits the estate . |
| 29 | They hatch very quickly and at the same time a new generation of workers and soldiers emerge from the stored pupae . |
| 30 | In 1956 , the Glasgow Archaeological Society celebrated its centenary , and at the time a new fort at Bishopton , discovered from the air , was being investigated . |