Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] an [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 2 | With the academic year 1992/93 seeing the first full year of modularised courses at Napier , it was seen as an appropriate time to examine undergraduate , postgraduate , and HND courses in relation to the inclusion of enterprise/ transferable skills in course descriptors . |
| 3 | ( Hereford cattle entries have slumped to an all time low of just fifty nine here at the show.The ancient local breed has been hit by competition from Continental cattle.But now the Hereford farmers are fighting back with a scheme to boost beef sales.Richard Barnett reports : ) |
| 4 | But we passed again , later , and the hands had n't moved to an earlier time . |
| 5 | Development and consultation time has been short , and there are a number of features which will require close scrutiny during the early stages of piloting , so that adjustments can be made at an appropriate time . |
| 6 | The incident came at an awkward time , preceding by a few days a visit by the Chief Rabbi . |
| 7 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 8 | You might not be going through an easy time emotionally or materially but all the dramatic sagas now unfolding will eventually come together to produce and excellent outcome . |
| 9 | To a number of us the crucial omission was any help for industry , which was going through an appalling time . |
| 10 | You will have to weigh it again once it is stuffed for an exact time . |
| 11 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 12 | They were painted , and would never move to an earlier time . |
| 13 | An oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation has a mean cost of £783 based on an average time in theatre ( including induction and recovery ) of around three hours and includes the cost of the staples £130 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Being called at an inconvenient time by an insensitive caller who assumes that since you 've answered the phone it must be convenient to talk ’ . |
| 15 | Those who had been in Italy before the end of 1989 and who registered within an appointed time limit were to be allowed to remain in the country and would be granted rights to medical care , schooling and equality of opportunity in relation to employment . |
| 16 | With the addition of a residential weekend each term , student-hours will be increased sufficiently to result in an overall time span shorter than when we last used a weekly format . |
| 17 | The handler should have a basic knowledge of the normal physiology of calving , and what should happen within an accepted time scale . |
| 18 | Yeah they went into an upbeat time did n't they ? |
| 19 | Up to the beginning of this century people believed in an absolute time . |
| 20 | Concern grew when they failed to return to base at an agreed time , after delivering aid to the besiged town of Travnik . |
| 21 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 22 | Another Middlesbrough and Cleveland athlete , Allison Curbishley , was also in superb form in the intermediate girls ' 300 metres hurdles , winning in an improving time of 44.6 minutes . |
| 23 | ‘ For man knoweth not his time ; as the fishes that are taken in an evil net , and as the birds that are caught in the snare ; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time , when it falleth suddenly upon them . ’ |
| 24 | They are born under the ancient Chinese curse , ‘ May you live in an interesting time ’ , a time in which values , lifestyles , relationships , employment are up for grabs , and in which traditional answers to the question ‘ How to live ? ’ are weak and conflicting . |
| 25 | Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on . |
| 26 | If sleep is taken at an unusual time , the changes associated with it ( the release of some hormones , the type of sleep ) will be affected to different extents depending on whether they are dominated by external factors or the body clock . |
| 27 | the affairs of the target company are not to be hindered for an unreasonable time |
| 28 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 29 | As they fall , as in the example given , they merely replace what was lost in an earlier time period . |
| 30 | This war will start at an appointed time , like a ball game . |