Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [prep] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If , unusually , there is no time pressure , the targets can be approached one at a time in order of their relative attractiveness .
2 He had pressed her to marry him , though he was considerably older than she was , and she had accepted him at a time of great emotional exhaustion .
3 We have been told nothing about the time of year , but for the purposes of the story we must assume that the rains have come , and the waters are high and fast , even though the women and children have got across safely enough .
4 Beechams Pills could be bought one at a time in a spill for a penny .
5 CLE-1 , however , always imposes strong preferences , because of the way that reference candidates are tried one at a time in a depth-first fashion , with backtracking to the next candidate taking place when , and only when , the logical form involving the current one is deemed implausible .
6 Consequently , Nos. 1–16 were removed one at a time to Sutton depôt , where the track brake gear was removed and fitted to 36–43 , which took their place at Penge depôt .
7 a series of instructions which would normally be issued one at a time on the keyboard to control a program .
8 It goes to the root of the Positivist idea that hypotheses can be tested one at a time by comparing their implications with objective , neutral facts of experience .
9 Second , so many features of our own constitutional practices are debated one at a time in just this way , that it is implausible to claim conventionalism as a good interpretation of the process by which our legal culture shifts and develops over time .
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