Example sentences of "[vb base] at [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're all at a different school all day , and they shop at different times … but you never see them in restaurants and why should n't they be ? |
| 2 | Length of gestation was significantly associated only with wheezy chest most days ( p<0.01 ) and cough at other times ( p<0.05 ) in the adjusted models . |
| 3 | Because I look at hard times and I make this vow : This will not stand . " |
| 4 | Arguments against screening included that other effects of hormone replacement therapy are as or more important when decisions on treatment are made ; that no agreement exists on when and whom to treat ; that measurements vary at different times and with different equipment ; and that there is little separation between the groups who will and will not suffer fracture in terms of bone mass . |
| 5 | Different varieties flower at different times ; you will find them described as early , mid-season or late flowering in catalogues and on the labels on most garden centres . |
| 6 | When the major source of information is the teacher , it is essential that students gather at fixed times , " to catch the teacher 's words during their moments of fleeting life " as Taylor puts it . |
| 7 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 8 | Other families may not have meal-times but eat at erratic times of the day . |
| 9 | Owls , like most birds of prey , start incubating their eggs as soon as they are laid with the result that the chicks hatch at different times . |
| 10 | You 've got okay you 've got something like a six I do n't even know what time the train comes they change at different times , the one I 've caught was at five past nine train . |
| 11 | Children develop at different times and by overcoming different obstacles . |
| 12 | This possibility is avoided in the magnolia , as in many plants , by having eggs and pollen that develop at different times . |
| 13 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |
| 14 | Draw up a life table for a cohort of 5000 students showing , for each year of study , the probability of leaving and the expected remaining stay calculated on the assumption that one-tenth of the leavers in any year depart at random times during the year and the remainder go at the end of that year . |
| 15 | CUCGA intends within five years to have ( i ) established relations with the media , Government Departments , Members of both Houses of Parliament and other bodies with an interest in higher education ; ( ii ) established itself as a campaigning body on behalf of graduate organisations ; ( iii ) opened its membership to encompass all university convocations and analogous bodies in the UK ; ( iv ) established methods of funding to allow it to support its expanded role ; ( v ) developed a comprehensive portfolio of policy issues upon which it can actively and publicly campaign at appropriate times . |
| 16 | Natural ‘ saline invasions ’ from the mouth of the bay or mysterious and undiagnosed maladies like ‘ Lake Venice ’ or ‘ Rhode River ’ disease , have at various times thinned out these plants . |
| 17 | Both indigenous and immigrant working classes have at various times staked claims to be considered the true backbone of ‘ the nation ’ ( as against a decadent aristocracy or unpatriotic bourgeoisie for example ) through various institutions of public propriety ( churches , labour organizations , community associations ) which at the same time defend the integrity of their own traditions against negative influences in the wider society . |
| 18 | To Tessa Pollard and Liane Saunders who have at various times voluntarily assisted with secretarial chores . |
| 19 | All five members , the United States , the Soviet Union , Britain , France and China have at various times , armed and supplied rival factions in Cambodia . |