Example sentences of "at [adj] times [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again .
2 At different times he published works by Sarah Fielding , Charlotte Lennox , Susanna Centlivre , Eliza Haywood , Elizabeth Carter , and Mary Barber , as well as others .
3 His nationality is obscure , but at different times he has been known to use both an American and a Belgian passport .
4 It is nonetheless evident from her poetry that at different times she was visited by aspiring poets and dramatists .
5 Where a transfer of value is made by associated operations carried out at different times it shall be treated as made at the time of the last of them .
6 If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies .
7 Used to have to eat all sorts of things at different times I used to try and eat apples as opposed to , you know , sort of , something fairly healthy but
8 Like the other planets it travels around the Sun in an ellipse , which means that at some times it is closer to the Sun than at others .
9 But at some times it 's apparent and at other times it 's not .
10 At ordinary times we do not read novels at all , as you may imagine , but the right novel at the right moment can have a real spiritual value . ’
11 Either he was in the early depressed state , with hands hanging , or else flailing his limbs about , unsafe to be with ; at such times they had to strap him down .
12 He never put me on a heavy job until at such times he thinks I was fit .
13 I have this theory that at such times he 's communing with the mother ship which gave him his mission on this planet , but then I could be wrong .
14 She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it .
15 It is a romantic vision : Milan can never be Venice , but at such times it can also never be anything but Italian .
16 At such times it may be easier to attribute our stress reaction to these events and so understand more about what is happening .
17 At such times it may be easier to achieve flexibility in a contractual relationship with another SBU in the same corporate group , but there is something in what Porter says .
18 At such times it may be necessary to use an anthelmintic at intervals of 2-4 weeks depending on the degree of challenge .
19 At such times you need to turn to a wise and experienced adviser who might well have steered you clear of the mistake had he been consulted earlier .
20 At these times they 're often near water or close to their nests and dens .
21 If bad weather prevented it from hunting at these times it would starve .
22 At all times we have a sense of not being able to achieve any change of direction on how the European Community conducts its affairs .
23 Our operating divisions are run as separate , autonomous profit centres to maximise opportunities in local markets , yet at all times we pay careful attention to areas of synergy .
24 The evidence of video films is that the police advanced at a trot and that at all times they were controlled .
25 In most cases the 1988 Education Act offers blanket cover for governors in that they will not be held responsible , financially or otherwise , for their actions and decisions as long as at all times they have acted in good faith .
26 It is not necessary that Traditions and Ceremonies be in all places one , and utterly like ; for at all times they have been divers , and may be changed according to the diversities of countries , times , and men 's manners , so that nothing be ordained against God 's Word .
27 At all times they are encouraged to take responsibility for their own learning .
28 I have used the Solution for six dives , the majority of these required decompression and at all times it performed faultlessly .
29 At all times it is consciousness that drives the chariot , or car — through the Mind .
30 At all times it was possible to listen in on interviews and to monitor the interviewer 's work on a control screen .
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