Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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1 | For a start , though it 's called ‘ single-frame ’ , two frames are often shot at a time , for economy . |
2 | The elusive creature may be successfully trailed for a time , then disappear for months and even years . |
3 | At present , some centres use photographic records to follow patients with clinically atypical naevi , on the assumptions that only lesions that show evidence of progressive change need to be excised and that such change can be clinically detected at a time when evolving melanomas are thin and curable by local excision . |
4 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
5 | These courses could not be done in a shorter time so they were normally arranged for a time of year when there was less pressure of work on those participating . |
6 | Parenthood is generally recognised as a time of crisis and adjustment . |
7 | As it takes about two years to convert an idea to law through our parliamentary system , new legislation is often implemented at a time when the circumstances which gave rise to the idea have substantially altered . |
8 | In contemporary Britain it seems almost impossible to go a single day without hearing , from some quarter or another , a senior policeman hectoring us on the deteriorated condition of public morals , while assuming the right to deliver homespun history lessons in which the past is lovingly remembered as a time of harmony . |
9 | The author realised that she was wrongfully dismissed at a time when the company needed her services . |