Example sentences of "at [art] time [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the commission , which since its inception has been the CIVC 's ComCon ( Commission Consultative ) , required a yardstick on which to base their annual increase or decrease of production limits , then it would have been more rational at the time to term the figure , whether or not it was actually 50 hectolitres per hectare , an average for the region . |
| 2 | A reporter at the time describes the La Scala Girls at the Palace : |
| 3 | I noticed the attractive terracotta-tiled floor and another open fireplace which at the time housed the refrigerator . |
| 4 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 5 | In 1977 , 22 per cent of female part-time employees were earning less than £15 a week , which at the time defined the boundary of non-employed for social insurance purposes ( that is , neither they nor their employers have to pay national insurance contributions ) . |
| 6 | Were you a bit concerned at the time making the decision ? |
| 7 | Did you at the time see the celebration of sexuality — even if it is a boy masturbating over an advertisement in a newspaper — as a kick in the eye of oppressive forces in the church ? |
| 8 | The attempt in the 1890s to turn headmen into policemen in Kurunagala was widely considered a failure , and even officials responsible for the province at the time emphasized the importance of coconut plantations in the decline of cattle theft . |
| 9 | The instructor should distribute Handout 13 , then go through the steps one at a time using the details in the text and asking the trainees to complete exercises where necessary . |
| 10 | Your composition is replayed one line at a time showing the music in graph form or by indicating the note position on a pianoforte keyboard on the screen . |
| 11 | Teams of 12 firefighters at a time enter the building in a bid to reach the source of the fire . |
| 12 | Suppose the intensity is lowered to a level at which only a single photon at a time encounters the crystal . |
| 13 | Thus confidential data can be stored on such a disk and the user of this data can physically remove it , even take it home with him if he so desires , thereby ensuring that the information can not be seen by any unauthorised persons This control over sensitive data coupled with the fact that the computer is personal to one user at a time gives the operator a greater sense of confidence in , and control over , the machine he is using . |
| 14 | There is none of the discrete lumpiness we saw in our first experiment when a bullet at a time hit the screen , now here , now there . |
| 15 | Komatsu has built a robot with eight ‘ legs ’ that move four at a time to propel the machine at 200 metres per hour regardless of obstacles . |
| 16 | The mother at no time neglected the child . |
| 17 | What is sure is that Field , with his access to the latest English pianos at an early age , at no time played the harpsichord , and this , perhaps , above all helped him to develop the use of the pedal , which he would often sustain through changes of harmony , for the sake of the colouring of the phrase . |
| 18 | Naturally , with the increasing prosperity of Scotland in the course of the eighteenth century , the value of minor private patronage diminished , but it could be replaced on occasion by alternatives , and at no time did the agents of administration control all available employment . |
| 19 | At no time did the defendants tell the plaintiff of Mr. Perot 's proposed purchase of Vertigo and it is this fact which has given rise to the present litigation . |
| 20 | At no time did the abbey relinquish to these groups any of its tight control over economic life . |
| 21 | At no time did the King mention the progress of the war , and it was hardly the place or time to open the subject . |
| 22 | Although the 1914–18 war quickened the speed of the decline in fertility and resulted , during a loss of around 600,000 unborn children who would otherwise have been brought into the world , at no time did the rate touch the low level at which it stood in 1939 . |
| 23 | Common action on issues at a local level seemed threatened , but at no time did the war seriously compromise the determination of labour leaders to defend living conditions ; in many instances the struggle was intensified , although not to the point of sabotaging the war effort . |
| 24 | Certainly , at no time did the lift pass anything like 6,000 tons a day . |
| 25 | First of all I that at no time have the Labour , the Liberal and the Conservative not been totally in favour of this fire station . |
| 26 | At no time has the hospital begged for money for baby heaters . |