Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The submissions made to your Lordships on the basis of the history of eleemosynary corporations do not seem to me to justify the drawing of such a distinction at the present time once it is accepted that certiorari can be available ( as in Thomas ) on some grounds . |
| 2 | Are there issues in your relationship at the present time that you resent ? |
| 3 | The message which Balfour sent was that , ‘ He is also of the opinion that it will be a serious danger if the Socialist Party is allowed to assume office at the present time and he thinks every means ought to be taken to avert the Parliamentary defeat which would bring them into office in your place . |
| 4 | The drama school will know about this , and make sure your picture is sent at the right time before you finish training . |
| 5 | A murder weapon had been discovered in Parkin 's desk , David Parkin had been in the right place at the right time and he had a conceivable motive to kill the television reporter . |
| 6 | ‘ But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time . |
| 7 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |
| 8 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 9 | ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time . ’ |
| 12 | It was most fortunate that we sailed from Cape Town at the appointed time as he had many engagements in Australia — most important the Opening of Parliament in Melbourne a day or two after his arrival . |
| 13 | and they did n't know which one to watch there was two on at the same time so they picked one and she said if we had a video she said we could be taping the other one and he said how can you do that ? |
| 14 | MAKE everyone in the house agree to breakfast at the same time so you ( a ) get a clear kitchen , and ( b ) know you can get some help . |
| 15 | They do n't come round at the same time so you 're always out of phase and it always looks untidy . |
| 16 | Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job . |
| 17 | This suits other banks because it means that they can earn interest on surplus funds , knowing at the same time that they can get them very quickly , at call , if necessary . |
| 18 | The distinction is not clear : at the same time that we recognize it , we can not define it . |
| 19 | Yes , and I do hope that at the same time that we 've been talking about how relatively practical religion has become , that we shall remember the mystery which it witnesses to . |
| 20 | Work on anaerobic endurance at the same time that you are raising your aerobic platform . |
| 21 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 22 | The candidate must also give his consent to nomination and at the same time that he gives his consent in writing he must state his qualifications to be a candidate . |
| 23 | Gandalf remarks at the same time that he sent Gwaihir the eagle to watch the River ; presumably he was the eagle Aragorn saw , but thought nothing of , as he stared out from Amon Hen on the first page of The Two Towers . |
| 24 | It says a child can not be misbehaving at the same time that he is behaving well . |
| 25 | He was proud that the invisible spirit animating the slight frame had dared to conceive the intended deed as his duty ; but he was afraid at the same time that he would lack the courage to endure the pain and carry it through . |
| 26 | From this awareness of individuation or , to use the Scotist term , haecceitas , came Hopkins 's overriding concern with ‘ inscape ’ in every aspect of the created world : the obsession with the ‘ selfhood ’ of every object or being , at the same time that he perceived behind it the generically divine . |
| 27 | At the same time that she reveals the secret about her husband , we hear about her activities in Laurel . |
| 28 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 29 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 30 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |