Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] at the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time .
2 China , if the one-child policy continues to be pursued successfully at the same time that life expectancy is being extended , looks set for an extraordinarily rapid transition to being the oldest society ever known — an apparently unforeseen consequence of her birth-rate policy , according to work being carried out by James Smith and Peter Laslett at the Rank Xerox Unit for the Study of Ageing , University of Cambridge .
3 THE recovery in the housing market has come just at the right time for CALA , the Scottish house-builder , which saw interim losses nearly double to £2.85 million .
4 He can tell them in training , but they 've got to perform out there on the pitch , and probably this game has come just at the right time , after suffering a defeat like that , this is the time to get out there and show the supporters what they can really do .
5 If it had come out at the same time , it would have been submerged , and if it had come out afterwards it would have been seen as merely reactive .
6 It is essential that proper planned maintenance of equipment is carried out at the recommended time and is correctly recorded , and rectified as quickly as possible , stating the remedial action taken .
7 This allows for the entries to be made by machine accounting whereby several operations can be carried out at the same time .
8 Meanwhile , in our protocol , the denaturation of plasmid DNA and degradation of the contaminating RNA is carried out at the same time in the alkaline solution at high temperature .
9 After an accident it is often found that maintenance work as well as repairs is necessary and it is quite natural that the Policyholder will want both carried out at the same time .
10 But what commits the muscle to this final pathway and what ensures that all the necessary genes are turned on at the same time ?
11 There is no doubt that the removal of the child by this mother was done precipitately at the very time when the child 's future care was already under consideration by the Ontario court .
12 Any mulm and detritus can be syphoned off at the same time .
13 In terms of progressing or taking part in the discussion , can I suggest that if you want to come in on a particular item , you put your name board up like that , so that we can readily observe it er and equally , our friend who is looking after the microphones can make sure that the vol the volume of your microphone is turned up at the appropriate time .
14 For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would
15 But when she was over here , she sold up and her sister sold up at the same time .
16 It was a torture which was part of the school 's underground mythology , but something he assumed had died out at the same time as the belief that bullying was inevitable , harmless and good for the victim 's character .
17 ‘ Green in the snow ’ is a hot , hardy mustard , sown outdoors at the same time .
18 Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities .
19 Two additional changes ( also only relevant to joining a new scheme ) were brought in at the same time .
20 With much wider powers than its predecessor , the Secondary Examinations Council ( SEC ) , SEAC is also heir to the recommendations of another of the Secretary of State 's ad hoc working parties , the Task Group on Assessment and Testing ( TGAT ) which was set up at the same time as the first curriculum working groups and , like them , worked under enormous pressure to produce proposals for the assessment of the National Curriculum .
21 Even , I 've never seen it all set up at the same time .
22 If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established .
23 Many gliding clubs use multi-drum winches so that several cables are pulled out at the same time .
24 Auguste had added the course in the interests of the Prince of Wales ; it was to be served virtually at the same time as the entrée , in defiance of the rules , in the hope it would attract less attention .
25 I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles .
26 All the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) , and the package need only be approved once for them all .
27 All the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) , and the package need only be approved once for them all .
28 More than one DC can be activated via a package at the same time , up to a maximum of 10 , and all of the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) .
29 None of the following devices should , on any account , be switched on at the same time : the immersion heater in the master bathroom , the swimming-pool filter or the dishwashing machine .
30 It was the sort you sit up in , and there were two other people being taken home at the same time , so we did n't go straight to Fulham but did a detour through Kensington .
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