Example sentences of "place at the [adj] time [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 2 | ‘ There 's no pecking order , it 's who is in the right place at the right time and who is the strongest , ’ he says . |
| 3 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 6 | The young baby in the carry-cot described by the IRA as an accident of war , the young nun serving the community described by the IRA as being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a fireman trying to put out a blaze described by the IRA as helping the British war machine — we did not expect to reach the stage where the IRA would break every precept of human compassion and morality by bombing a hospital . |
| 7 | It depends if you 're in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time . |
| 8 | For example , a 30 second live report which is due to take place at the same time as Martina Navratilova is about to serve for the match can be both a reporter 's dream and a producer 's nightmare . |
| 9 | An advantage of this system is that work can commence much earlier than in the traditional system because much of the design work will take place at the same time as the actual construction . |
| 10 | This ceremony takes place at the same time as the annual celebration for the freedom of the city by 38 Regiment of the Royal Engineers . |
| 11 | When early retirement took place at the same time as redundancy , the fear of not getting financial compensation became a reason for taking early retirement . |
| 12 | The registration of the Hammonds as proprietors took place at the same time as the registration of the legal charge . |
| 13 | Taking place at the same time as the development of graphics capabilities was the introduction of printing devices that could reproduce the images created on the screen . |
| 14 | Obviously , when capital is financed from revenue , the accounting takes place at the same time as the financing . |
| 15 | The audit should take place at the same time as the hardware inventory is being checked , and a relational database should be constructed to link the two inventories together . |
| 16 | ( Elections in five states , Uttar Pradesh , Sikkim , Goa , Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka , had taken place at the same time as the general election in November — see pp. 37124-25 for results . ) |
| 17 | Was it merely a coincidence that the fall of Boso took place at the same time as the discovery of the Rauching plot , in which Egidius was involved ? |
| 18 | Really the only reason I could think of when it 's you know it is important to put things on paper are really like the last three bits that we talked the last three things we talked about which detailed information would need to be there so people can read it when you know it 's got to get to a lot people not all in the same place at the same time or when it 's you need a copy . |