Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you climb two or three flights of stairs , reasonably fast and taking the steps two at a time , and not end up breathless ? |
| 2 | ‘ Come on ! ’ he cried , pushed past Fand and leapt up the steps two at a time . |
| 3 | He grinned , then spurred himself on , mounting the steps two at a time . |
| 4 | One must first consider the computers available at the time , which were roughly equivalent in power to an average modern programmable calculator . |
| 5 | And there indeed they are — an odd little cluster of houses built a century and a half ago , in a jumbled assortment of all the styles available at the time . |
| 6 | He observed an agent , invisible with the microscopes available at the time , which could be propagated like bacteria in cultures and which dissolved bacteria in cultures which were infected with it . |
| 7 | The precise interpretation of an ultimatum depends upon the circumstances prevailing at the time . |
| 8 | Paragraph 27 of the [ draft ] FRS requires that the initial accounting for the loan should be based on the circumstances prevailing at the time the loan is entered into and so , for example , changes in a relevant index subsequent to issue should not be anticipated . |
| 9 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 10 | I find that the conditions prevailing at the time when the reduction in rent was made , had completely passed away by the early months of 1945 . |
| 11 | I am satisfied that the promise was understood by all parties only to apply under the conditions prevailing at the time when it was made , namely , when the flats were only partially let , and that it did not extend any further than that . |
| 12 | In this chapter we shall look at ways of smoothing the edges off the jagged initial appearance of data plotted over time ; we shall look at the observations three at a time , taking seriously the spirit of this somewhat sarcastic remark , to get indications of the trend . |
| 13 | However , if no copy of the terms is supplied , the reference will normally be interpreted as a reference to the version of the terms current at the time the contract is made ( Smith v S Wales Switchgear Ltd [ 1978 ] 1 WLR 165 ) . |
| 14 | When the moment passed , Delaney took the stairs two at a time . |
| 15 | Stephen took the stairs two at a time and threw open the bedroom door to see Tamar , sitting up in the big fourposter bed , nursing their son . |
| 16 | They went into the hall together ; then Joe watched Martin take the stairs two at a time , and the maleness of him , his virility seemed to leave an aroma behind him . |
| 17 | ‘ No breakfast ? ’ she called when she saw him striding up the stairs two at a time . |
| 18 | Lucenzo detached himself from the crowd and ran up the stairs two at a time , seeing that she 'd frozen . |
| 19 | She slammed the coffee-mug on to the table , put her hand to her mouth and rushed out of the room , taking the stairs two at a time . |
| 20 | Next moment , he was racing up the stairs two at a time , and Theda was stumbling along the gallery to meet him , clinging to the railing for support . |
| 21 | He gave her a grin and took the stairs two at a time . |
| 22 | He descended the stairs two at a time , and before she 'd managed to catch her breath she was deposited on the settee in the living-room and Michele was sitting beside her . |
| 23 | The sound of his low mocking laughter followed her as she took the stairs two at a time , desperate to be away from his gaze , all too aware that a scarlet flush had enveloped her entire body — aware too that the heat he had generated in her had n't only been embarrassment . |
| 24 | Siegfried had just begun to take the stairs three at a time when his brother descended from the landing , knotting his tie with perfect composure . |
| 25 | Some may be seen 20 or more years later to have been seminal but were ignored because they did not fit into the theories current at the time . |