Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |
| 2 | League Cup success could n't have come at a better time for Rangers , nor for that matter could the return to goalscoring form of Ally McCoist . |
| 3 | League Cup success could n't have come at a better time for Rangers , nor for that matter could the return to goalscoring form of Ally McCoist . |
| 4 | That 's his first for the club and could n't have come at a better time for Hereford , though . |
| 5 | And it could n't have come at a better time for the 29 year old bowler in this his benefit season . |
| 6 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 7 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 8 | Chaovalit 's formal entry into Thai party politics occurred at a difficult time for Chatichai and his government , already under pressure as a result of an outbreak of serious Cabinet infighting in late September . |
| 9 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 10 | Both glans and prepuce are covered by stratified squamous epithelium , and separation occurs at a variable time from before birth to several years afterwards by desquamation . |
| 11 | It arrives at a different time from the rest of the mail . |
| 12 | John had advised him to transfer from Rome airport to the railway station to avoid a five hour wait at Rome , but oh ! no ! big boots insisted on flying , although the late flight from Rome is notorious — and , of course , just after John had left for Naples airport , having to do quite a lot of the journey on foot , as late evening buses stop at a given time on Public Holidays , rang to say that Alitalia was alleging weather problems at Naples and so the passengers would be transferred by coach arriving at 2am . |
| 13 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 14 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 15 | In Webb the employer was allowed to put forward an explanation , which was accepted as being gender-neutral , that an employee was needed at a specific time to be trained and to cover for a period of maternity leave with the probability of being retained as a permanent employee . |
| 16 | In a sense it is a personal keeping of the ‘ minutes ’ of what occurred at conferences or in battles which will remind the writer what happened at a precise time in the course of events . |
| 17 | ‘ Being called at an inconvenient time by an insensitive caller who assumes that since you 've answered the phone it must be convenient to talk ’ . |
| 18 | An endowment policy pays a capital sum to the insured at a specified time in the future , or on death if earlier . |
| 19 | As a result , they are normally very tired during weekdays when they are compelled to wake at a normal time for work . |
| 20 | The promised escalation in activity outside the factory may come at a crucial time for the company , according to Mr Kydd . |
| 21 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 22 | Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy . |
| 23 | Their responses affect the habits of nectar-seeking insects and the type of pollen that is being spread at a particular time of day . |
| 24 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 25 | Her discovery in Paris could n't have happened at a worse time from that point of view , and she would just have to accept it . |
| 26 | This idea that protect children , not tell them about what 's happening , I mean if anybody can protect them to that extent when even Neighbours is put at a different time on the television , you know , erm that somehow we make them warm and secure by not telling them , to me that is making them dependent and unable maybe to cope later on in their lives . |
| 27 | By that I do not mean simply that Christianity arose at a certain time in history . |
| 28 | It may be possible to study for the course by distance learning , so that the modules can be covered at an appropriate time in your training . |
| 29 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 30 | It was not created at a good time for ballet music and these scores are relentlessly trivial . |