Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] [noun sg] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case for such objective assessment before operation seems particularly strong in women over the age of 50 because they may have suffered occult damage to the anal sphincter during the childbirth and could be at particular risk of a poor functional outcome if the sphincter were to sustain further damage at the time of operation . |
| 2 | The link was put in place to provide some stability at a time of political turbulence in the British colony . |
| 3 | We designed ideal standard criteria for using dilatation and curettage : clinical suspicion of tuberculosis ; failure of medical treatment for menorrhagia and dysmenorrhoea ; severe menorrhagia presenting as symptomatic anaemia ; to exclude early pregnancy at the time of tubal ligation ; to remove an intrauterine contraceptive device if not possible in outpatients . |
| 4 | It would be an additional folly to impose generic substitution at a time when the Japanese government has singled out pharmaceuticals as a significant area for growth and one to which high technology is applicable . |
| 5 | We do know however that , with perseverance , every day can produce some success and that , by continuing to work one day at a time , we will be building up a very solid basis for renewed confidence and further achievement . |
| 6 | The experiment consisted of presenting an unseen passage of text to a person and asking her to guess one letter at a time . |
| 7 | ‘ Because of all that 's happened , ’ she says , such a move would have to come one step at a time . |
| 8 | It is ridiculous to sell one beast at a time to one person . |
| 9 | I wanted to use different coloured pens to mark out various patterns on the same sheet as I could only afford to buy one sheet at the time . |
| 10 | The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track . |
| 11 | The speaker may need to be physically closer , to use the reassuring sense of touch , to remember that the whole face and expression help to convey meaning , to express one thought at a time unhurriedly , at the pace suitable to the old person . |
| 12 | Too many congressmen in both parties were reluctant to aid Soviet retraining at a time when growing numbers of US citizens were unemployed . |
| 13 | It was easy , however , to discount this evidence at a time when opinion polls were in their infancy , at least so far as credibility was concerned , and when it was universally thought that support would return to Churchill as soon as his formidable oratorical skills were thrown in on one side of the party contest . |
| 14 | You , you could say , I 'm going to do all four walls together or I 'm going to do one wall at a time . |
| 15 | Hence the social acceptability of earlier retirement by women can prove a mixed blessing : it gives them more chance to leave paid work at a time of their own choosing , but also leaves them more open to pressure from others to retire . |
| 16 | Importantly their chapter offers a defence of the role of educational studies in addressing fundamental educational problems and issues , and of the need to sustain independent enquiry at a time when official pressure concentrates on the technical and utilitarian aspects of schooling . |
| 17 | If we begin thinking about the details of the cube , we can try to restore one piece at a time . |
| 18 | Despite the phraseology , the Messina declaration did not seem to have much impact at the time ; it was not seen as a dramatic move towards supranationalism . |
| 19 | When there is mismatch between different devices , seek to master one device at a time , e.g. drill word order first , and then inflections of the verb . |
| 20 | Having to stop on every other move to bury one hand at a time in the confines of barely warm armpits made for rather a stilted ascent , but it was worth it . |
| 21 | health , for example , may be as much a demand-side as a supply-side factor through social pressures on those who suffer it to take early retirement at a time of general contraction . |
| 22 | These combine with forward and reverse in fast or slow motion , freeze and step frame ( the ability to move one frame at a time ) and two audio tracks . |
| 23 | Franchising is supposed to happen one route at a time , over as many as 12 years . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know where he will go after his race at Christmas — I just want to take one race at a time — but the main target is the Champion Hurdle again . ’ |
| 25 | In the first of two reports , we look at the difficulties facing people with head injuries , as they learn to take one day at a time . |
| 26 | In the second of our reports on head injury we examine how it 's often the whole family who have to learn to take one day at a time . |
| 27 | ‘ It is our policy to take one game at a time and look no further than that . ’ |
| 28 | From now on she could be grateful for small mercies and be content to take one step at a time . |