Example sentences of "[noun] at a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from containing pictures of part of the scene where it is said the violent disorder had taken place and an incident leading up to the arrival of the police which was held to be part of the res gestae , the tape would have been useful to establish alibis some defendants wished to rely upon in respect of their presence in the club at a relevant time and the timing between significant incidents . |
| 2 | Elsewhere we have argued that part of what made René Lévesque and Lee Iacocca effective as leaders was the temporal significance of their vision : they appealed powerfully to the specific needs of specific stakeholders at a specific time . |
| 3 | This is particularly necessary if you are using either the VHS-C or Video 8 formats ; unlike the ubiquitous standard VHS cassettes which can be bought just about anywhere , the availability of the mini-format cassettes tends to be patchy and you risk running out of tape at an awkward time . |
| 4 | It is assumed that the two defendants have committed some crime at a stated time — say between 10 and 11 p.m. last Wednesday — and have set up an alibi . |
| 5 | It illustrates , in an acute form perhaps , the frequently encountered problem of establishing the version of a text which is in force at a given time when that text has been much amended , whether it be the latest version or the version in force at a particular date in the past . |
| 6 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 7 | BKZ consider that this effect of previous history results from the stored elastic energy in the configuration at a previous time and they then assume the stress at time t to be the sum of all the contributions from all . |
| 8 | We can notice , too , that the deictic aspect of the definite referring expression the sun ( the definite article being a deictic term ) is contextually ambiguous — I could use it homophorically ( the sun , generally ) or deictically ( the sun at a particular time and place ) . |
| 9 | This weakened the Section 's influence at a crucial time and correspondingly strengthened the hand of the Treasury . |
| 10 | Sets of boundary conditions that tell us the state of some regions of the universe at a certain time and what effects propagate into it subsequently from the rest of the universe . |
| 11 | Obviously I will send this to both of you and if David is back in England at an appropriate time he might like to join me in discussions with the programmer . |
| 12 | WALSINGHAM became a shrine to Our Lady at a difficult time when the Turks overran the Holy Land and stopped pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Nazareth for which the English were already renowned . |
| 13 | On the other hand , the SeHCAT value corresponds to a seven day elimination of bile acids , whereas the concentration of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one only reflects the synthesis at a certain time . |
| 14 | The choice of Mr Bernerd ( who recently hit the headlines in connection with the case of ex-Heritage Minister David Mellor and Ms Antonia de Sancha ) as the company 's financial backer , seems to have been an uneasy choice and has not resulted in a long-term commitment to the gallery at a difficult time for the art market . |
| 15 | While this is not insignificant ( a weakness of the lecture or the teacher-directed lesson is that it must take place at a pre-set time irrespective of student readiness ) it is hardly Liberty Hall . |
| 16 | ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell . |
| 17 | The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there . |
| 18 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |
| 19 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 20 | Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation . |
| 21 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 22 | Singular statements , unlike a second class of statements that we will meet shortly , refer to a particular occurrence or state of affairs at a particular place at a particular time . |
| 23 | The second method for regeneration to be initiated is by a time clock , so that it takes place at a convenient time such as during the night . |
| 24 | For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) . |
| 25 | All he saw was the ghost of the waterfall : ‘ we visited the place at an unseasonable time , and found it divested of its dignity and terror . ’ |
| 26 | Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ . |
| 27 | Insofar as our interest is in the market process and its competitive character , we should no more be surprised that only one producer is making a product at a particular time than that of many producers of a particular product one is charging a price which no other producer is asking . |
| 28 | Announcing his departure , Hickey commented : ‘ I am leaving the post at a natural time in Filmhouse 's history and on a personal level it enables me to take on a new challenge while moving to another area of the film industry . |
| 29 | Without the relational property of being on the mat at a particular time the cat would not be the ontological individual it is . |
| 30 | Volumes of almost 900m shares reflected not only the Midland placing , but also a sizeable number of program trades , where institutions inject or extract large blocks of funds across a range of stocks at a pre-arranged time and at pre-determined prices . |