Example sentences of "at time [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What 's harder is the multi-faceted aspect which at times is even conflicting . |
| 2 | The bias at times is obvious . |
| 3 | are like that , but pillows have your head sweating on 'em at times are n't we ? |
| 4 | Neighbouring freshwater wells have become unusable , and the smells from the vandalised creek , at times flowing in multi-coloured currents with dyes from the chemical treatments , have at times been so pungent that inhabitants of the area along the banks of the Yellow Creek have been awakened from their sleep at nights with extreme nausea and vomiting . |
| 5 | No one knows how they got to be so diverse , though Dr Humphry Greenwood , of London 's Natural History Museum , has suggested that the water in Lake Victoria has at times been lower than now , with the fringes separated into pools . |
| 6 | This problem has become very apparent in recent months at Humberside , where the beacon ‘ HBR ’ on frequency 350.5 kHz has at times been almost unusable due to interference from the NDB ‘ LPL ’ at Liverpool on 349.5 kHz . |
| 7 | The treatment of individual supporters has at times been shoddy and the club need to radically improve their attitude towards the paying customer . |
| 8 | The example of our colleagues in the higher education sector has had a major , positive influence on the educational methods employed by nurse educators , even if the initial response to this has at times been guarded by the ‘ old school ’ establishment . |
| 9 | It was rumoured that the relationship had at times been stormy . |
| 10 | But his form , in an often disappointing side with a fragile back-up , has at times been exceptional and kept him top of the national averages . |
| 11 | Managers of the system have had a continuing battle for the funding and managerial autonomy required to run it , and the corporation 's survival has at times been in serious doubt . |
| 12 | The response of the public has at times been staggering . |
| 13 | The distinction between natural and non-natural user has at times been confused with the distinction between things naturally on the land and things artificially there . |
| 14 | There has at times been a degree of common cause between the PUK and the Iraqi Communist Party ( ICP ) , which was once involved in a national front with the Baath , but subject to repression in recent years . |
| 15 | To a large extent the areas nearest to the Mediterranean were the most civilized , but there were cities further north with important cultural traditions , including Lyons , Bordeaux and Autun , and there were other cities , including Trier and Paris , which had at times been the residences of emperors . |
| 16 | Digby was kept under considerable pressure and at times was found wanting as Bolton , fed by full-backs determined to work their way forward , put everything into attack . |
| 17 | One lady who was working in the Smithy and had recently been directed to Wolverton , kept pestering him for one , and at times was quite verbal about it . |
| 18 | But in the conversational recordings , the speed at times was often averaging 400 , and for fragments of utterance it approached 500 . |
| 19 | Pegasus did n't win their first short corner of the game until the 28th minute , and that was down to Nadine Long , who at times was the only forward prepared to take on the Portadown defence . |
| 20 | And Summers conceded : ‘ His style of play at times was not what the fans wanted . ’ |
| 21 | What I did n't want to do at times was to overload , I wanted to start off with a time limit as we mean to go on and spread it out through the year and so I have put the important things which are to do with the quality system like internal quality audit erm , non- conformances , the corrective action , training and all stuff like that with an audit before and then things like contract print erm , I do n't think we are going to have any problems with I put those for after . |
| 22 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 23 | Two such distinct behaviours can at times be observed , either by the participant himself or by an outside observer . |
| 24 | Neither is it always wet ; again , the forests of Queensland can at times be very dry ( and the tops — the canopy — where the leaves are held in the sun all day , must endure conditions that would stress a cactus ) . |
| 25 | And there were others less distinguished , perhaps , but whose lively presence made any visit memorable ; for instance , Mr Wilkinson , valet-butler to Mr John Campbell , with his well-known repertoire of impersonations of prominent gentlemen ; Mr Davidson from Easterly House , whose passion in debating a point could at times be as alarming to a stranger as his simple kindness at all other times was endearing ; Mr Herman , valet to Mr John Henry peters , whose extreme views no one could listen to passively , but whose distinctive belly-laugh and Yorkshire charm made him impossible to dislike . |
| 26 | The excitement of that particular visualizing can at times be intense and I now no longer miss the arrow storms . |
| 27 | The temptation to ‘ fiddle ’ quotas or interviews is always present , and for an interviewer who is not getting interviews this temptation must at times be great . |
| 28 | In many marriages the commitment to children can at times be in conflict with the earlier commitment to the partner . |
| 29 | The play taking place in the Home Corner might at times be imaginative , and at other times imitative . |
| 30 | ‘ Anne can at times be wilful , self-centred , headstrong — she is a true Mowbray ! |