Example sentences of "have at time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A World Apart is , ‘ despite ’ its author 's socialism , a ‘ deeply religious book ’ , in which she has at times the sense of ‘ a man talking to God ’ . |
| 2 | In very recent years holy war has been fought between Iran and Iraq , and with a ruthlessness that has at times , with the use of chemical weapons for example , offended international codes of conduct . |
| 3 | In later Christian debate the history of the formation of the biblical canon has at times become a sensitive issue : were the books admitted to the church 's canon because they were self-authenticating , and a passive act of the community was to acknowledge their inherent authority ? |
| 4 | Douglas Hurd has proved a reassuring figure in a campaign that has at times seemed to lack confidence and direction . |
| 5 | No one knows how they got to be so diverse , though Dr Humphry Greenwood , of London 's Natural History Museum , has suggested that the water in Lake Victoria has at times been lower than now , with the fringes separated into pools . |
| 6 | Just as Israel at times has thwarted United States ' regional objectives , so also the PLO has at times thwarted the policies of Jordan and Syria ; Egypt has reneged on its commitment to the Soviet Union and a defeated Syria was able to destroy the Israeli-Lebanese Withdrawal Agreement virtually overnight . |
| 7 | This problem has become very apparent in recent months at Humberside , where the beacon ‘ HBR ’ on frequency 350.5 kHz has at times been almost unusable due to interference from the NDB ‘ LPL ’ at Liverpool on 349.5 kHz . |
| 8 | ‘ Charles has at times given the impression that he would prefer to renounce the throne in favour of his son . |
| 9 | The treatment of individual supporters has at times been shoddy and the club need to radically improve their attitude towards the paying customer . |
| 10 | Even if one is not concerned with broader issues of social policy , one has at times a sense of being overwhelmed by the sheer extent of the work that needs to be done to support very old people and their carers , often reinforced by personal anxiety about one 's own relatives . |
| 11 | ‘ Souness has inherited the biggest mess at Anfield that I can remember and in trying to get himself out of it he has at times become even more bogged down . |
| 12 | The example of our colleagues in the higher education sector has had a major , positive influence on the educational methods employed by nurse educators , even if the initial response to this has at times been guarded by the ‘ old school ’ establishment . |
| 13 | But his form , in an often disappointing side with a fragile back-up , has at times been exceptional and kept him top of the national averages . |
| 14 | Managers of the system have had a continuing battle for the funding and managerial autonomy required to run it , and the corporation 's survival has at times been in serious doubt . |
| 15 | But Stephen James , at his own quiet pace , has at times grated with encouragingly unruffled skill . |
| 16 | This enables easier adjustment to take place , although in practice the balance of payments has at times continued to pose problems for the UK economy . |
| 17 | The Royal Commissions and official committees of inquiry have maintained a reticence on such matters that has at times made their recommendations Appear naïve — as if one could consider the reorganisation of Political institutions in isolation from politics ! |
| 18 | His legendary reputation in the Muslim world as the liberator of Jerusalem has at times obscured the fact that he was an ambitious , skilful and experienced statesman . |
| 19 | The response of the public has at times been staggering . |
| 20 | Clearly , for example , Althusserian structuralism has at times a quite tangible functionalist flavour , especially in its account of the reproduction of capitalist relations of production . |
| 21 | The distinction between natural and non-natural user has at times been confused with the distinction between things naturally on the land and things artificially there . |
| 22 | Official monthly statistics , based upon those claiming social security benefits , suggest that women 's unemployment has at times risen at a much faster rate than men 's , although the absolute and percentage numbers for men remain higher . |
| 23 | The dismantling of the welfare infrastructure and the encouragement of the pursuit of profit has at times taken on the mantle of a moral endeavour . |
| 24 | Oil , the fount of the country 's wealth and of the crash modernization and militarization on which the Shah encouraged by his allies , had embarked in the 1970s , has at times stopped flowing altogether . |
| 25 | There has at times been a degree of common cause between the PUK and the Iraqi Communist Party ( ICP ) , which was once involved in a national front with the Baath , but subject to repression in recent years . |
| 26 | It is too much to say that ‘ ministers , uncertain about everything else , had at times found a refuge in social righteousness ’ and that ‘ Bunyan … might have said that social righteousness was his old village of Morality transformed , like Manchester , to a town , by the industrial revolution ’ . |
| 27 | His evidence was to help place Mrs Dyer on the scaffold , as was his wife Polly 's , who testified that her mother had at times visited her with various small children who seemed to disappear overnight . |
| 28 | And all that time , Franca contained in her breast a storm of anguish and violence so terrible that she had at times , when she was alone and longing to ‘ break down ’ , to clutch her breast with a fierce answering force to keep the black horror from spurting forth . |
| 29 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
| 30 | Up to then Graham , 33 , had been mainly in control and had at times outclassed the 27-year-old Grant . |