Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv prt] 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 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 !
5 It should be no more and no less than the business carried on at the time of completion .
6 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 .
7 There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne .
8 Which opera was Puccini working on at the time of his death ?
9 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 .
10 As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ .
11 He was a great favourite with the London playgoers , and there were a lot of Falstaff jokes going round at the time .
12 as things cropped up at the time she just showed me how to do it , and I just picked it from there .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Mr Clerides takes over at a time when the international community is showing impatience with lack of progress towards a Cyprus settlement .
17 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 .
18 As a rule he was unobserved , as he took care to go out at a time when everyone in the house was occupied elsewhere .
19 It 's known as the Vadinamian Valve , and it 's big enough for only one ship to pass through at a time .
20 The June poster campaign was described as a ‘ xuechao ’ , student movement , in one analysis carried out at the time , although there were no demonstrations .
21 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 .
22 His book comes out at a time when anyone who shares his concerns may be feeling particularly down-hearted .
23 ‘ It may be best for us ’ , McFarlane reported back at the time , ‘ to try to picture what it would be like if after nuclear attack , a surviving Tartar became Vice-President ; a recent grad student became Secretary of State ; and a bookie became the interlocutor for all discourse with foreign countries . ’
24 As Gandhi pointed out at the time , Munich was a victory for Hitler 's violence , not for pacifist protest .
25 As environmentalists pointed out at the time of the Shetlands disaster , there is a degree of hypocrisy in expressing outrage at the spillage when such accidents are the price we seem prepared to pay for access to oil .
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