Example sentences of "[adj] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been too lordly to do this at one time , preferring to give them as Christmas presents . |
| 2 | You can do this at any time and will receive a rebate against future charges in accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Credit ( Rebate on Early Settlement ) Regulations 1983 . |
| 3 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 4 | A You can do this at any time and will receive a rebate against future charges in accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Credit ( Rebate on Early Settlement ) Regulations 1983 . |
| 5 | I can alter this at any time , of course . |
| 6 | I have benefited from all of this at some time ; so have others . |
| 7 | Keoi look like ordinary human individuals — men and women — and in fact they were this at some time , but they performed a forbidden act which transformed them into keoi . |
| 8 | Practically all the interviewees had experienced this at some time during their drug career . |
| 9 | Every parent says this at some time . |
| 10 | The situation in England was quite different at this time , and illustrates the principle that the horizons of what scholars are prepared to believe about musical performance in the past can be set by what their contemporaries among performers are able to provide . |
| 11 | It was only the events afterwards that proved that it did n't work , but they were n't clear at this time |
| 12 | William was aged 22 at this time , with his wife a year younger ; they began their married life in that same rather elegant location that Benjamin the Silversmith had chosen for his early forays into the boarding-house business : Wilmington Square , Clerkenwell . |
| 13 | She was very unfashionable at one time but I remember reading and enjoying her books . |
| 14 | The Rushdie affair also emphasized that the composition of society is not homogeneous and some sections may have very different perceptions of what is acceptable at any time . |
| 15 | As I am sure that my hon. Friend is aware , the reason for that is that the demand for gas oil , which is equivalent to diesel , is high at this time of the year because it is used for heating . |
| 16 | I accept that , at present , they are high — only slightly below unleaded petrol prices — but , as the hon. Gentleman knows , that is because the demand for gas oil , which is equivalent to diesel , is high at this time of year as it is used for heating and high demand tends to push up prices . |
| 17 | He says that the coal is for domestic use , and is being used to suppliment british supplies because demand is high at this time of year . |
| 18 | March is often a windy month and because the winds are unsteady at this time of year there is always a chance of very changeable weather from day to day . |
| 19 | It 's a terraced house and er , it 's double storey , two floors up and er , it was well-used at that time because the reason was one er , there was n't much accommodation available and secondly it is the custom amongst our people that who 's ever er is in need we have the person , like the two of us came from India , my brother and myself , so we di could n't get a job . |
| 20 | The Wallabies led 33-3 at half time and finished 46-13 winners . |
| 21 | Ministers also noted that more generous terms were simply not attainable at that time . |
| 22 | To be fair , however , few at that time sensed the full implication of what was starting and the ITF in those days had neither the structure nor the financing to have become embroiled in any major commercial legal battles which may have started . |
| 23 | erm If we go back , Kuwait has always been an independent country until the Ottoman Empire was erm threatening that area , and they were ruling the Arab peninsula , which later to be known as Iraq , and when the Kuwaiti people felt the threat of the Ottoman Empire they signed a treaty with the British at that time , and that was in eighteen ninety nine and Iraq was established in nineteen twenty , so we are are ahead of that . |
| 24 | But more than a change of personalities was complicating the American assessment of the relationship with the British at this time . |
| 25 | In 1949 many West European states joined America in making the NATO alliance and there were some at that time who believed in forging an ‘ Atlantic community ’ . |
| 26 | eighty pound if it 's not one thing you know it 's fortnight ago from Co-Op it 's forty one P a packet , went last week it was forty six P a packet , so Richard and Angela went the other day for nan and they got me some at same time , she leant me the money , yeah , cos I was absolutely broke , gone back down again to forty one |
| 27 | After dinner , it being light at that time until midnight , we took our friend into the hotel garden and , for possible use in the film , recorded him shouting German wheel and engine-room orders such as would have been used by Prien during the mission . |
| 28 | Er instead of buying ready-made er dresses I suppose which wer became er very popular at one time with the Indian girls and the Pakistani girls . |
| 29 | The wicker industry began with the manufacture of copies of cane furniture — popular at that time in Germany and Britain — for the British families , and then for the hotels in Funchal . |
| 30 | When found , he was immediately christened ‘ Harry Lauder ’ , after the celebrated Scottish comedian who was popular at that time . |