Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will be intriguing to see how Brecht 's play stands up at a time when Communism is loosening its ideological hold . |
| 2 | Where a problem seems obviously more complex they suggest that the client makes an appointment with an adviser to come back at a time when the bureau is officially closed to the public . |
| 3 | They 've seen language labs , which are great , more or less mould away for lack of resources to keep them in working order , and they see micros coming in at a time when everything else is being cut . |
| 4 | Whatever the merits of the arguments against Mr Soley 's proposal for a Select Committee in place of the Commissioner , they are much less convincing when applied to the more modest proposal put forward at the time by the SDP that there could be a Select Committee confining itself to the Commissioner 's report ‘ so that in turn it would report and give some reality to parliamentary accountability ’ . |
| 5 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 6 | It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion . |
| 7 | If you are having a mains garden lighting circuit installed , it makes sense to have power points suitable for power tools such as mowers and hedge trimmers put in at the time . |
| 8 | There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne . |
| 9 | Although Nizan was later to pour scorn on the moral self-righteousness and indignation of a non-communist majority in France venting its spleen on the treacherousness of the USSR , 8 and although he was also to recognise the Soviet Union 's need to act expediently at a time of impending international disaster , 9 nonetheless something fundamental had clearly snapped in Nizan 's psychology . |
| 10 | Which opera was Puccini working on at the time of his death ? |
| 11 | An application for a warrant of further detention can be made up to 42 hours from the commencement of the detention clock , in a situation where the 36 hour period runs out at a time when it is not possible for a magistrate 's court to sit . |
| 12 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
| 13 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 14 | He was a great favourite with the London playgoers , and there were a lot of Falstaff jokes going round at the time . |
| 15 | as things cropped up at the time she just showed me how to do it , and I just picked it from there . |
| 16 | The ESPLANADE , on which witches were once burned at the stake , is the scene of the famous Military Tattoo held annually at the time of the International Festival . |
| 17 | The company memory of the late launch of a profitable product will convey more merit than the prompt launch of a failure , whatever the arguments put up at the time . |
| 18 | After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time . |
| 19 | The troubled DIY group has been in talks with its bankers arranging a refinancing of the £553million loans taken out at the time of the management buy-out . |
| 20 | Mr Clerides takes over at a time when the international community is showing impatience with lack of progress towards a Cyprus settlement . |
| 21 | Philip of Valois 's claim , however , had the virtues of clarity and logic , whereas Edward 's claim , as French lawyers pointed out at the time and French historians have not hesitated to remark since , rested on the unsatisfactory assumption that a woman could transmit a right which she could not exercise . |
| 22 | As a rule he was unobserved , as he took care to go out at a time when everyone in the house was occupied elsewhere . |
| 23 | It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time . |
| 24 | The June poster campaign was described as a ‘ xuechao ’ , student movement , in one analysis carried out at the time , although there were no demonstrations . |
| 25 | The timeliness of the Minor award in these terms was noted by the head of history : The project came along at the time when we were thinking about cross-curricular developments anyway , and the school had been concerned about the particular pattern of study skills and how they could be extended and coordinated . |
| 26 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 27 | The ‘ Penis Landscape ’ controversy fell conveniently at a time when something had to give at the ailing NME . |
| 28 | ‘ Varna insisted not at the time . |
| 29 | Seven years after Mrs Thatcher 's warning to the unions and nearly seven years of government under her direction during which time the trade unions ' privileges have been reduced , the growth of wages continues strongly at a time of very high unemployment . |
| 30 | His book comes out at a time when anyone who shares his concerns may be feeling particularly down-hearted . |