Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | A late election will also be acceptable where at a crucial time one of the signatories or a signatory 's agent was unavailable for unforeseeable reasons ( such as a serious illness ) and there was no one else who could reasonably be expected to stand in the agent 's shoes . |
| 2 | Why give out the message that certain sexual activities are risky whilst at the same time conveniently ignoring the real needs of lesbians ? |
| 3 | His voice had deepened , the words becoming more guttural as for the first time since she 'd met him he seemed to struggle with a language which was not his own . |
| 4 | Firstly , when we were first discussing the sale , the market was somewhat more buoyant than at the present time . |
| 5 | As regards land spreading , the equipment available must be considered carefully and guidelines are available as to the best time to spread the manure , in order to minimise the possibility of causing a nuisance . |
| 6 | In 1932 , for example , Mrs Q. D. Leavis had roundly condemned the cheapening and weakening influences of the popular press and popular novels which produced ‘ merely crude states of mind ’ and what she called ‘ the disintegration of the reading public ’ : ‘ The reading capacity of the general public , it must be concluded , has never been so low as at the present time . ’ |
| 7 | Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified . |