Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burying a much loved pet at home can provide great emotional support at a distressing time , but it can also present practical problems |
| 2 | An approach to family functioning which emphasises the interactions of each upon the other and their cumulative impact is essential if we are to understand adequately the position of an old person at a given time . |
| 3 | As a conscious exercise in boosting public morale at a difficult time there was a real danger of over-indulgence in wishful thinking ; it would be a cruel delusion to anticipate too many rabbits out of the hat , only to be fobbed off by the patter of the conjurer . |
| 4 | But when talking to a different audience at a different time , the Labour party poses as the green party , committing itself to the tough and demanding target of cutting carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 5 | Quinn 's fundamental point is simply that it is foolish to try to produce a total group-wide analysis at a given time and then to go ahead rapidly implementing that , ignoring the changing external and internal environments . |
| 6 | The change he makes is to assume that the laws of motion obeyed by the particles constituting an isolated system are non-invertible : that is , that the same dynamical state at a given time can be reached from two or more different dynamical states at some earlier time . |
| 7 | Cheney said that he had dismissed Dugan , who had held his command for only three months , because he had violated standing orders on the public discussion of military operations and had showed " poor judgment at a sensitive time " . |
| 8 | Most laboratory and field studies of human behaviour involve taking a situational snap-shot at a given time in a given place . |
| 9 | Consideration should be given to whether the internal advertising of management posts would identify those staff who were willing to be considered for a move to a particular branch at a particular time . |
| 10 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 11 | Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation . |
| 12 | Bem and Locksley and Colten agree that sex-role inventories express ideas of gender in a particular community at a particular time , and so display built-in constraints and obsolescence ( Bell and Schaffer 1984 ) . |
| 13 | Programmes are booked in advance for a particular room at a particular time and are then " broadcast " into that room as prearranged . |
| 14 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 15 | Singular statements , unlike a second class of statements that we will meet shortly , refer to a particular occurrence or state of affairs at a particular place at a particular time . |
| 16 | Life was faster , demands changed more quickly , and people were included because they met a particular need at a particular time . |
| 17 | There remains the more fundamental question of why it should befall a particular person at a particular time and place . |
| 18 | If you consider how people — consumers — actually use advertising , as opposed to how advertisers hope , optimistically , to use people , it is quite clear that , to a given person at a given time , by no means all advertisements are equal . |
| 19 | ( The same , actually , is true of a press campaign , but there is no reason to simplify , since the appearance of an ad in a particular paper at a particular time is determined , whereas the actual TV buying pattern needs to be left flexible . ) |
| 20 | To argue over the logic or truth of an idea in absolute terms is to explore the nature of belief itself , but for an historian of ideas what is most interesting is ‘ who held a particular belief at a particular time and what needs it fulfilled for them . |
| 21 | Nevertheless there is at least one sense in which The Lord of the Rings can claim ‘ mythic ’ status , which is as ‘ a story embodying the deepest feelings of a particular society at a particular time ’ . |
| 22 | Philip the Fair 's adviser , Guillaume de Nogaret , saw the regnum as the total area of Capetian jurisdiction — and that might not correspond to its territorial extent at a given time . |
| 23 | It is the dialectically functioning relationship between musicians and listeners which accounts for the state and the viability of the musical language at a given time , and for changes in the language over time . |
| 24 | Plainly , there is no compelling linguistic reason why , in a particular language at a particular time , loss of a segment should be considered less beautiful or less ‘ correct ’ than its insertion . |
| 25 | Surely , it will be said , it is necessary to draw a distinction between predicates which within a given context at a given time can be appropriately ascribed to a given existent , and those predicates which under the same conditions can not be meaningfully said that either they or their contradictories are true of the existent in question . |
| 26 | Certain public transactions , notably where the firm is making an offer on behalf of its client , require funds to be available in a specific currency at a specific time and place . |
| 27 | Last week the Sizewell inquiry , at the Snape Maltings was assured by the board that the issues ‘ can be left for resolution in the normal way at an appropriate time in the project , since they do not require any fundamental system re-design to accommodate them ’ . |
| 28 | This section will analyse the development of this initiative over its first few years , in order to give a particular example of local political activity at a particular time in a particular place . |
| 29 | The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there . |
| 30 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |