Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any necessary elections for tax purposes must be identified and made at the optimum times . |
| 2 | He was hard enough to resist at the best times . |
| 3 | It is further urged upon me that the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact with each other , and the justices being satisfied that there were grounds for believing that both the children were likely to suffer significant harm , which was a specific finding that they made , they were plainly wrong in refusing to make an interim order in that they first of all failed to have regard to the fact that the parents had colluded over the cause of D. 's injuries , and there was evidence to that effect ; secondly , that the mother had lied to social services , Dr. Barnardo 's and the guardian about having had at the relevant times no contact with the father — and that is indeed what the mother has done , she has lied ; and , thirdly , that the father had been in breach of a term of the bail conditions which had been imposed upon him , not only on 23 December 1991 but ever since his release in as much as he had visited and contacted the mother . |
| 4 | There are many problems associated with the use of teaching accommodation that are probably not unique to Oxford Polytechnic : for example , bunching of teaching in the middle of the week with under-use of rooms on Monday and Friday , and rooms not being used at the booked times . |
| 5 | If the system incorporates a bilevel or chopper drive circuit the current control can be over-ridden at the appropriate times to make the full supply voltage available continuously . |
| 6 | As regards their gods , benevolent ones were honoured , whereas those of an equivocal nature had to be appeased at the appropriate times . |
| 7 | They did n't happen often , and could come at the unlikeliest times and places . |
| 8 | The solemnity was heightened at the actual times of worship by the colourful splendour of clerical pomp . |
| 9 | It takes effort on the part of the parent but can sometimes help them see that their child is eating more than they thought or eating at the wrong times of day . |
| 10 | They just want something that runs about and barks at the right times . |
| 11 | However , the rate of progression of urinary albumin excretion was not correlated to the progression of mean arterial pressure recorded at the corresponding times ( r '=-0.23 , p=0.302 for all patients ; r '=-0.24 for enalapril group ; r '=-0.20 for hydrochlorothiazide group ) ( fig 3 , left panel ) . |
| 12 | CITY financiers are still gasping at the Financial Times editorial column on Thursday which backed Labour . |
| 13 | After the first rotary press was established at the Daily Times , that paper 's circulation soared from 25,000 in 1951 to 55,000 in 1955 ; ten years later , it reached 120,000 copies daily . |