Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 2 | Some halted at the right time and others did n't , resulting in a bit of a rugger scrum . |
| 3 | You must also have practised these moves in a variety of combinations , using a small punchbag as a target , until you can automatically use the right move at the right time and distance . |
| 4 | But any doubts about Dick Tracy being the right film at the right time or reservations over whether Breathless Mahoney is the right part for the 31-year-old star are dispelled in the first ten minutes of the movie . |
| 5 | Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made . |
| 6 | As on the previous night , the mail train roared past the signal box at the usual time and Jack again heard footsteps in the still night walking under the box . |
| 7 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 8 | However , they do appear to gently tighten and tone up the surface of the skin ( albeit temporarily ) and moisturise at the same time so skin feels softer and smoother . |
| 9 | It was Mark who had persuaded her to approach the bank for a loan , Mark who had suggested her old friend Linda George , who had graduated in business studies at the same time that Theresa had finished her fashion degree , should join forces with her to organise the commercial side , Mark who had given her enough confidence in herself for her to allow her mother to put up her house as security — something Theresa had fought against even whilst realising there was no other way to secure the loan she needed . |
| 10 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |
| 11 | Internal chip design , which began at the same time that HaL Computer Systems Inc started developing its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc chips , aims at producing a 500MHz microprocessor by the fourth quarter of 1996 . |
| 12 | Internal chip design , which began at the same time that HaL Computer Systems started developing its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc chips , aims at producing a 500MHz microprocessor part by the fourth quarter of 1996 . |
| 13 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 14 | A Soviet official argued at the same time that Warsaw Pact proposals on the non-expansion of military-political groupings in Europe and on limiting the scale of military exercises also involved the interests of the non-aligned countries since ‘ the tendency towards expanding the NATO bloc directly affects the newly independent countries ’ . |
| 15 | The Review Panel would have had to try to persuade the court that complying with FRED 1 failed to give a true and fair view , and it would have been presenting this argument at the same time that companies generally were being compelled to comply with FRS 3 ( a not fundamentally revised version of FRED 1 ) in order to give a true and fair view . |
| 16 | At the same time that Thomas was studying Vitor , so Vitor was studying him . |
| 17 | To a remarkable degree during the 1960s , geographers turned away from certain environmental problems at the same time that colleagues in neighbouring fields discovered those issues … |
| 18 | It was also announced at the same time that Ong Teng Cheong , the other Deputy Prime Minister , was suffering from cancer . |
| 19 | At the same time that Engels argued that primitive societies were classless , he inevitably argued that the complex and subtle theory of history which he and Marx had developed just did not apply to these societies . |
| 20 | Jeff had rung to tell her — and to tell her at the same time that Silvia had passed her exams with flying colours . |
| 21 | At the same time that Coleridge was discussing Hartley with Wordsworth he was also constantly urging him to write ‘ a philosophic poem ’ — ‘ No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a profound philosopher ’ . |
| 22 | She watched him go , noting at the same time that Rourke 's companion was no longer in evidence . |
| 23 | Firstly , misplaced conceptions within the élites of Hitler as a man whom they could trust and ‘ work with ’ , in contrast to the Party radicals , integrated the disparate sectors of the élites and mobilized their support behind the Nazi leadership in the critical early years at the same time that Hitler 's popularity provided the mass base of legitimation for the presumed reassertion of their own spheres of domination . |
| 24 | A self-sterile tree , therefore , must be grown near another variety that blooms at the same time and will cross-pollinate its flowers . |
| 25 | Individual workstations in the network can be used on different tasks at the same time and users benefit from sharing centrally held programs , datafiles and storage ( memory ) facilities . |
| 26 | MR JUSTICE SAVILLE , giving the judgment of the court , said the appellant did not suggest that the co-defendant 's committing of an act of gross indecency with the appellant was not relevant to the question whether , at the same time and place , the appellant was committing a like act with the co-defendant . |
| 27 | The unusual nature of these counter-examples indicates that they are indeed the exceptions which prove the rule , and it is normally reasonable to assume that coins made from the same die were produced at the same time and place . |
| 28 | Each session lasts approximately one hour and twenty minutes , and occurs initially on a weekly basis at the same time and place . |
| 29 | If a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting , the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such time and place as the Directors may determine . |
| 30 | If a quorum is not present within half an hour from the time appointed for the meeting , the meeting shall stand adjourned to the same day in the next week at the same time and place or to such time and place as the Directors may determine . |