Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) The selection of an appropriate method for calculating the related cost , where a number of identical items have been purchased or made at different times ( such as unit costs , average cost or FIFO — first in first out : see below ) . |
| 2 | Whereas er in erm a factory , I believe , they would have had to have er the rooms whitewashed , colourwashed or whitewashed at certain times , we were n't bound up with any regulations , then . |
| 3 | When toddler and baby both need to be carried or held at all times , how do you get the luggage and buggy off the train ? |
| 4 | This possibility is avoided in the magnolia , as in many plants , by having eggs and pollen that develop at different times . |
| 5 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |
| 6 | Length of gestation was significantly associated only with wheezy chest most days ( p<0.01 ) and cough at other times ( p<0.05 ) in the adjusted models . |
| 7 | There 's only one FA Cup Final , one Wimbledon , one Royal Ascot every season , even though there 's plenty of football , tennis and racing at other times . |
| 8 | Alive and alert at all times . ’ |
| 9 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 10 | We have a duty to be as clear as we can , and to articulate at all times what we are trying to do , in at least a general sense , and it will help us to ask ( even if we can not always easily answer ) what the result might be in terms of student ability or behaviour . |
| 11 | They fail to keep him informed , and to advise at crucial times , such as takeovers . |
| 12 | The point about the Urgonian limestones , say , is that we know that they are of about the same age throughout Europe in spite of the fact that fossil evidence shows them to have started and ended at different times in different places . |
| 13 | At hotels near airports and in major cities visitors are arriving and departing at all times with peak periods being the morning departures and arrivals building up during late afternoon and early evening . |
| 14 | Other families may not have meal-times but eat at erratic times of the day . |
| 15 | However , while the condition of struggle with the West Indians remained a constant , at least until 1838 , in providing a rationale for national organisations , how they were conceived as operating at various times , and even at the same time by different reformers , varied significantly . |
| 16 | Think of the five other roads as leaving at various times on a clock face ; as already pointed out , all movement on roundabouts is in a clockwise direction . |