Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a particular time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We recommend that future project initiatives of this kind should give much more thought to the structures and procedures , both within project schools and at the level of overall planning and coordination which are required to ensure that initiatives are not confined to a particular time period or grant , and that the inservice implications of good practice resulting from the project are capitalised upon . |
| 2 | An electric shock US , for instance , is an event occurring at a particular time , with a certain duration and intensity , that impinges on a particular part of the animal , and so on . |
| 3 | A bank can not predict which of its customers wish to withdraw or deposit money on any given day ; a travel firm can not control which of its package tours will be booked at a particular time . |
| 4 | Its format is usually standard , though much of the information collected and reported at a particular time may not be relevant to current development issues . |
| 5 | I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition . |
| 6 | Individuals may sometimes rent a stall on a ‘ one-off ’ basis , usually by waiting until a particular time ( eg 11.00 ) to see if the regular trader turns up . |
| 7 | In order to have a sense of how the different codes are used in interactions , it is necessary for the linguist to be quite clear about which code is being used at a particular time . |
| 8 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 9 | There is no necessary link between tense and time ; it is likely in this instance that the use of the present tense is not restricted to a particular time ( which is the time of the utterance ) but refers rather to a " general " present . |
| 10 | It is useful for would-be choreographers to study the historical development of classical style so that they may stage a ballet in a traditional way when it has a story firmly linked to a particular time and place . |
| 11 | Consistently the view was presented that one had to feel that the job which one was doing at a particular time could be related to some end product . |
| 12 | The starting position is that of eligibility set at a particular time . |
| 13 | Secondly , research can link present and future states in a way that maybe difficult to comprehend when we are deeply involved at a particular time . |
| 14 | Once the parties had been heard , the master or registrar would have the power either to make an ‘ unless ’ order , that is that the case would be struck out unless particular steps were taken within a particular time , or the case would be set down for trial . |
| 15 | Having given an opportunity to the parties to be heard , the master or district judge will be able to make an ‘ unless ’ order to the effect that the case be struck out unless particular steps are taken within a particular time , or will be able to set the case down for trial . |
| 16 | Obviously , there will always be resource problems for a variety of activities that local authorities would like to carry out , under whatever Government exist at a particular time . |
| 17 | Their responses affect the habits of nectar-seeking insects and the type of pollen that is being spread at a particular time of day . |
| 18 | It is not satisfactory where a significant separate item of loss is incurred at a particular time . |
| 19 | The bank manager , accountant , solicitor or building contractor might have something to offer at a particular time or for a particular purpose but they would not be fully established voting members of the group . |
| 20 | One of the drawbacks of A level is that because it is an examination to be taken at a particular time , namely after two years of study in the sixth form ( there are exceptions to this , but such is the general rule ) it is taken by people who are at very different stages of development , of readiness for the examination , and , above all , of interest in the subject matter . |
| 21 | It is not sufficient for social psychologists merely to define attitudes in terms of a stance taken at a particular time , with the assumption that such a stance has a fixity , which is only to be shifted by the reception of ‘ persuasive information ’ . |
| 22 | One significant difference is when an ‘ illness ’ has a starting date , or when the decline in energy or function can be pinpointed to a particular time . |
| 23 | The predictions will thus not be accurate in the sense that the severeness of the symptoms can be predicted for a particular time , but they will be statistically accurate . |
| 24 | Others need precise daily rations of sunlight that change with the seasons if they are to start flowering at a particular time . |