Example sentences of "[noun] at [adv] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | AS so often in the past , a major sporting event is set to give Northern Ireland a morale boost at just the right time . |
| 2 | All three have now given 50 pints of blood each and all three were surprised that they had reached this figure at almost the same time . |
| 3 | Comparable oxygen isotope shifts have been measured in sediments from Swiss and Polish lakes at precisely the same times . |
| 4 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 5 | Every held operation using tractors or horses inevitably causes some compaction and damage to soil structure ; it should therefore be the farmer 's aim to create the desired effect with the minimum of passes at exactly the right time . |
| 6 | I am not even going to attempt to tell you why I was so attired , or guess at why fate should have made Donald and his equally well-equipped companions walk across that particular piece of wilderness at precisely the same time as me . |
| 7 | He had been in and out of love , but never found quite the right girl at quite the right time to make him a wife . |
| 8 | But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time . ’ |
| 9 | ( It is important when dealing with caterpillars to realise that many species rely for their survival entirely on one plant growing in the right place at exactly the right time . ) |
| 10 | This was reinforced by a number of other changes which took place at roughly the same time . |
| 11 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 12 | Clients will receive completed accounts , returns and computations at roughly the same time each year so embarrassing delays will not arise . |
| 13 | Curiously , this branch of crime fiction appears to have sprung up independently on either side of the Atlantic at much the same time . |
| 14 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
| 15 | The first flight was scheduled for the last week in January , and as luck would have it there was a wild prairie blizzard blowing across western Canada at just the wrong time . |
| 16 | Ven was leaving his room at just the same time , and , ‘ Hello , ’ she offered in a friendly , bright way , and was stabbed at by fingers of conscience all the way down in the lift . |
| 17 | That decided , I bait the swim every other day at approximately the same time in the evening , for this will teach the carp that there is food available from a certain time . |
| 18 | In simple co-operative work , the Art Department can plan to examine particular patterns and structures at much the same time as the Science Department looks at crystals and lattices ; the Geography Department can look at climatology and weather charting at the same time as the Mathematics Department studies or revises graphs . |
| 19 | It was something of a coincidence that we wrote to each other at exactly the same time , albeit on different issues . |
| 20 | If you and the opponent land scoring techniques on each other at precisely the same time , then neither score will be given . |
| 21 | Jacob saw Seb at almost the same time . |
| 22 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 23 | Together , Perry and Crilly committed endearing and devilish acts ; climbing to the ceiling of the asylum chapel to ring the chapel bell at precisely the wrong time , loitering upon the roof of the geriatric ward in pursuit of fat blue-winged pigeons , throwing craps in front of the Sinn Fein bookshop . |
| 24 | Whereas Fig.9.1 shows absolute numbers for the same country at different points of historical time , Fig. 9.2 gives percentages so that structural comparisons can be made among countries with very different total populations at roughly the same time . |
| 25 | It gave us a lift at just the right time . |
| 26 | Similar competition multiplied the areas receiving urban programme funding in Britain at roughly the same time . |
| 27 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 28 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 29 | If we decide to be less cynical , we could suggest that God triggered a supernova at exactly the right time to draw the Magi towards the place where His son was being born . |
| 30 | In truth what really shaped his view was the comparison between Mayo 's film and Fury , which was released by MGM at much the same time . |