Example sentences of "[adj] place [prep] a [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time .
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