Example sentences of "times it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 If bad weather prevented it from hunting at these times it would starve .
2 In these egalitarian times it would take no more than the price of an off-season 's weekend bed and breakfast and the permission of a landowner or two .
3 In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik .
4 Much bargaining is tacit and informal , but at times it may become formalized into tripartite arrangements involving government , unions and enterprise management ; a rare example in the British context was the drawing up of the 1974 ‘ Plan for Coal ’ ( Burgi 1985 ) .
5 In happier , better times it may have looked princely , even regal , with the raised dais at the far end under a huge tapestry emblazoned with the royal insignia of Scotland .
6 It 's erm if you 've used that lots and lots of times it may have used up all the .
7 When you 've hit it enough times it 'll die and leave an extra weapon potion and some bird seed .
8 Marx envisages moments when the social system will accord with the technological system ; but at other times it will enter into contradiction with it , leading to revolutionary changes .
9 Other times it can indicate a lack of understanding and acceptance of this important spiritual principle .
10 And er we can get by on lots of things and when an emergency does come , sometimes we can cope with it if it 's not too big a one , but other times it can catch up with us , simply because we are only sort of half awake so the purpose of the talk today is to try and help us all to see various ways in which we can stay awake in the truth physic er , er spiritually speaking .
11 The formal discipline can sometimes tidy up muddled thinking but at other times it can interfere with the creatively developing interaction between trainer and trainee .
12 Eva never speaks of being afraid as the various political situations blew up even though at times it must have been rather like walking a tightrope after UDI .
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