Example sentences of "[vb past] at [art] [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Chaovalit 's formal entry into Thai party politics occurred at a difficult time for Chatichai and his government , already under pressure as a result of an outbreak of serious Cabinet infighting in late September .
2 Parallel procedural changes occurred at the same time in the Senate , but other factors were at work there too .
3 In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience .
4 Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me .
5 The realisation came at the same time to both of them .
6 Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability .
7 In a sense it is a personal keeping of the ‘ minutes ’ of what occurred at conferences or in battles which will remind the writer what happened at a precise time in the course of events .
8 It began at the same time for both of us , did n't it ?
9 She worked at the same time for her own degree and in 1881 took a B.Sc .
10 As a clue to that significance we might first recall the way in which the laws regarding menstruation and childbirth and this new circumcision appeared at the same time in the history of the Jewish people , and remember what was earlier said about the nature — culture dichotomy and the need of culture to control or impose itself upon what it deems to be nature .
11 By that I do not mean simply that Christianity arose at a certain time in history .
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