Example sentences of "[noun] at certain " in BNC.

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1 This is a well-documented conflict , especially among creative people who need isolation at certain times and company at others .
2 In the curiously claustrophobic , hierarchic world of the organisation , with the competitive pressures for promotion and jockeying for status , and the paranoid reactions this could induce , a few words spoken with a confident air of authority in certain ears at certain times could do incalculable harm , in my view .
3 Sad , nostalgic , the countryside had hardly changed and , if I closed my eyes at certain parts , I was back with Master Benjamin and all those people , now long dead , travelling to a place where conspiracy , treason and sudden death became part of the very fabric of our lives .
4 Security guards at certain plants may well be armed .
5 They have known divorce , bereavement , redundancy , accident , a broken home , abortion , illness , rejection , depression , uncertainty at certain points of their lives , perhaps before , perhaps since , conversion .
6 He makes explicit what is perhaps implicit in Taskopruzade , namely that Molla Yegan was from the province of Aydin , and adds to the sentence about his becoming muderris at certain medreses in Bursa the fact that this was through the agency of Molla Fenari .
7 Winter smogs are essentially polluted fogs , so there have been a number of occasions when they have been seeded with dry ice or silver iodide at certain airports so as to allow aircraft to land safely .
8 Fig. 7.7 Shows quite clearly that an injudicious choice of switching angle may prevent the motor from producing any torque at certain speeds , e. g. switching angle = 12 degrees at speeds below 100 steps per second .
9 On the other hand certain subjects at certain levels ( introductory and standard works ) should always be represented .
10 To do this , we evaluate f at certain values of x 1 and draw straight lines between adjacent points .
11 A lifeboat was based at Skateraw between 1907 and 1943 , manned by the Dunbar crew , to overcome launching difficulties at Dunbar Harbour at certain states of tide and weather .
12 There can not be many general booksellers who do not broaden their product range beyond books at certain times of the year .
13 Thanks to big one-off dealing losses at certain firms , overall profits from equity trading slumped by over 50% , to less than £400m .
14 Rice production is also very labour intensive , but in Japan the intensity of work is not even throughout the year , freeing the population for other work at certain times .
15 a ) Will some parts of the organisation reduce work at certain times because of public holidays ?
16 The administrative backlogs and incompetence at certain licensed dealers became a nightmare for clients .
17 What is needed is a relaxation of the law as it now stands to allow the controlled admission of children to certain pubs at certain times of day .
18 We may never fully understand how these early ancestors survived with only rudimentary tools , but we do know that there are concentrations of artifacts and bones at certain places in the Olduvai strata .
19 There are , however , to be yellow lines at certain corners in Juniper Green .
20 There are , however , to be yellow lines at certain corners in Juniper Green .
21 They had been briefed to report in on their mobile telephone at certain checkpoints en route , and to inform the Ops Room of any suspicious incidents , but their main task was to stop and talk to locals , in order to make their presence known in as friendly a way as possible .
22 Enlightened dry-fly anglers , too , have already been taking some tremendous catches with it and it will surely prove devastating for dapping , the earliest form of fly fishing , a method still used extensively in Ireland at certain times of year .
23 Programmes can be deployed to meet urgent needs at certain times .
24 To achieve efficiency , pruning of low-scoring readings may take place at certain points without greatly affecting the accuracy of the system .
25 The work of the Dragon Project though , is beginning to show that there may be some basis for thinking that unusual behaviour of certain known energies could be taking place at certain sites ( New Scientist , 21 October , p 166 ) , and it is possible that our ancient ancestors could detect this ‘ Earth energy ’ .
26 NatWest has a Touchscreen execution-only service for selected stocks at certain branches .
27 He achieved this only by disobeying his firm 's orders that he should sell certain stocks at certain times , and by slipping in bargains here and there that were actually in the client 's interest .
28 Hotels showing this symbol offer an exciting ‘ package ’ of entertainment & attractions or an excursion at certain times of the year FREE of charge to customers staying 3 nights or more .
29 The data is subjected to conventional analysis to find exceedences over alarm levels or to measure amplitudes at certain critical frequencies .
30 While at one level a functional difference was probably intended , the relationship between groups of buildings at certain sites strongly suggests that there is a social distinction cutting across the functional dimension .
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