Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I could fall asleep at a time like that I do n't know . |
| 2 | What can you do , can you do half at a time , can you |
| 3 | In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high . |
| 4 | Our policy-making seemed stuck in a time warp in which we saw our role as offering help to a disadvantaged majority against a privileged minority — seemingly unaware that income is no longer distributed in a pattern that is pyramidal , but is egg-shaped . |
| 5 | They surfaced at intervals , burned hot for a time and then slipped back underground , to be stored again in layers of social and religious memory . |
| 6 | Bodies are shaped several at a time and come off the machine almost ready to finish . |
| 7 | Moreover , prospects for new publishing ventures seemed bleak at a time when the print runs of even state-owned newspapers were being crippled by an acute paper shortage caused by inefficiency and technological obsolescence in the timber and pulp-and-paper industries . |
| 8 | Maybe we 'll do two at a time . |
| 9 | The stimuli to be used in the test phase were presented two at a time and the subjects were asked to describe the pair as ‘ same ’ or ‘ different ’ as appropriate . |
| 10 | Turning next to a time for my ‘ house call ’ we realised that , in golfing terms , we were only a drive and five iron apart . |
| 11 | Robert King 's series of concerts and workshops are proving invaluable at a time when authentic performance , a long time in its coming to these northern parts , is fast developing its own passionate audience . |
| 12 | Erm I mean as it is I I can get photocopying for four P a sheet getting fifty at a time , and that give I get a receipt for that which is better than three P a sheet without a receipt . |
| 13 | You can group sounds 12 at a time into banks , or ‘ drumkits ’ and the RY10 comes with 15 preset banks . |
| 14 | You can group sounds 12 at a time into banks , or ‘ drumkits ’ and the RY10 comes with 15 preset banks . |
| 15 | And I felt that I did n't really want to do this at a time when I was still floundering about and not having very disciplined classes and so on . |
| 16 | The problem of drawing a legal line between moral outrage and individual freedom has become intractable at a time when one person 's obscenity is another person 's bedtime reading . |
| 17 | And , anyway , doing the band had become less of a time thing , more a psychological matter of getting down to writing . |
| 18 | But the new vans specially built to convey this traffic were 27ft long and capable of holding two at a time , the forerunner of the car flats of the 1970s and '80s . |
| 19 | And we got poorer in a time when dole |
| 20 | Thus , two new launches had proved possible at a time when new dailies were generally still unpractical . |
| 21 | It is evident , too , that everyone is doing this at a time when thoughts of recession could easily exclude any charitable action . |
| 22 | The minting of his own coins by Beonna could suggest that he too broke free for a time from Aethelbald 's domination . |
| 23 | It seems ironic at a time of mounting concern about the excessive hours of junior hospital doctors . |
| 24 | Ensure that you are familiar with any heating controls the system may have such as a time clock or programmer . |
| 25 | It seems providential at a time when good news and dreams are in short supply : 430 unknown drawings by Amedeo Modigliani from his eight crucial years in Paris ( 1906–14 ) , which will be published by Noel Alexandre in September . |
| 26 | Kapil 's early partners were busy medium-pacers in Karsan Ghavri and Madan Lal , while Chetan Sharma looked promising for a time before fading out of contention . |
| 27 | And there certainly was n't any point in her moving out of her Mum 's to live alone at a time like this . |
| 28 | The danger of the latter approach is that they can be shelved and then become critical at a time when resources are being deployed elsewhere . |
| 29 | He surrounds himself with an entourage of loyal courtiers , some from the store , others from the office , taking several at a time for convivial weekends of dog-walking , tennis and log fires at his country villa on the River Po — a sharp contrast to the rather gloomy , solitary week nights he spends in the industrial wasteland of the Via Borgonuovo . |
| 30 | In the northern hemisphere , summer temperatures are such that many eggs become infective at a time when a population of susceptible foals is present . |