Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cultures there are still some established religious and social rituals surrounding death that help all the bereaved have a better understanding of how they are supposed to behave at certain times . |
| 2 | In planning ward staffing , the ward manager should start with a clear view of the number of staff she is likely to require at various times of the day . |
| 3 | Consider whether a very bold , outrageous , or dramatic look would be too overwhelming in a dining room which all the family are going to want to use at different times . |
| 4 | Because you 're not , because you 're inside a lot , you do n't have to go out every day , you do n't , you do n't have anything very specific to do at different times during the day . |
| 5 | We asked people ‘ Do you meet a broad range of other people in your daily life ? ’ erm ‘ Do you feel that your time is structured , that you have erm things to do at different times of the day ? ’ and so on . |
| 6 | This is over and above the ability to schedule the transfer to run at given times . |
| 7 | To accommodate such large numbers , visitors were asked to arrive at different times , all carefully co-ordinated to avoid a jam . |
| 8 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 9 | They fail to keep him informed , and to advise at crucial times , such as takeovers . |
| 10 | We suggest you find out where your newly-acquired friends and acquaintances tend to gather at different times of the day . |
| 11 | Mr Fallon said many disabled people wrote to him concerned that they would not be able to shop at convenient times . |
| 12 | They are likely to flower at different times and the effect will be untidy . |
| 13 | Market gardeners often use artificial light and dark cloths to adjust the length of the night and so persuade plants to flower at unnatural times of the year . |
| 14 | Mr Stitt pointed out that mountain accidents tended to happen at similar times — during hard winter conditions , at weekends or in holiday periods . |
| 15 | The fixed duration , the stereotypy , of the growth phase , makes it possible for particular things to happen at particular times during embryonic development , as if governed by a strictly observed calendar . |
| 16 | In the event , we had to return at separate times and as the friend , Mr. Robin Townsend , was to cross first , he took the plastic ticket and we agreed he would arrange to have the ticket divided , and leave my part at your Ostend office . |
| 17 | Still more complex behaviours , such as the spinning of an orb web by a spider , or the singing of the species-specific song by a bird , depend on an interaction between innate structures generating particular movements , on innate tendencies to be reinforced by particular sensory inputs , and on experience , which may have to occur at particular times during development . |