Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place . |
| 2 | Months ago they were passing strangers , chucked together at check-in times . |
| 3 | Ankles remain together at all times and feet should be over the knees . |
| 4 | One can only deduce that the Eurasian and African plates began driving together at this time , with the latter dragged down beneath the rising Alpine mountains . |
| 5 | Then it stays in the burrow alone , visited only at feeding times , for nearly two months . |
| 6 | One can think of these fluctuations as pairs of particles of light or gravity that appear together at some time , move apart , and then come together again and annihilate each other . |
| 7 | After lunch ( at about two o'clock ) many of us feel tired and may take a short nap , even though body temperature does not nominally fall much at this time . |
| 8 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 9 | ‘ Meg 's no good — she 's away — and you wo n't want to be driving far at this time of night … ’ |
| 10 | He had businesses in the North and used regularly at this time of year at the end of the summer sales , to go the rounds of his shops , take stock , examine the books , and so on . |
| 11 | The ‘ opposition ’ governors imagine themselves to be more important than they really are ; they have state , not federal , responsibilities ; their comments on federal matters should therefore not be regarded as of primary importance ; and , if they were reported fully at all times , this would be giving them a greater prominence in national affairs than they deserve . |
| 12 | Marksmanship was relatively unaffected when the soldiers were allowed to shoot in their own time at a target , but when shooting was combined with a vigilance task ( with the target appearing briefly at unpredictable times ) , the number of hits was dramatically reduced . |
| 13 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 14 | The County Council has never at any time considered a paper or come to a conclusion erm on the preferred general location for the new settlement . |
| 15 | Whenever I hear a man being witty or sensible or kindly or civilized I think : the qualities which now seem so much a part of this man could be stripped away at any time , and there would be left just a man who suffered and who fought with his suffering like an animal . |
| 16 | I 'm equally confident that the higher direction of MI5 and those operating today do not have anything to do with this , nor have they done so at any time . |
| 17 | If Sabine had wanted to break away and work on her own she could have done so at any time . |
| 18 | If he had ever wanted to see her socially he could have done so at any time , but there had been only chance meetings since his marriage . |
| 19 | The region of Conques suffered especially at this time from the breakdown of public authority and the rise of an aristocracy exercising local power from newly built castles . |
| 20 | A It can do so at any time . |
| 21 | ‘ Ordinarily I would have commented in some detail about our business , but can not do so at this time as we are in a closed period prior to the announcement of our 1992 results on 24 March ’ . |
| 22 | Many animals , from sheep to starlings , breed only at certain times of year — again depending on day length . |
| 23 | These are automatically silenced at night and may be silenced manually at any time by operating levers which are neatly and unobtrusively located on the hand-crafted dial . |
| 24 | For all these reasons , there is some mixing , though it occurs more at some times of year ( during the winter storms ) than at others . |
| 25 | So as long as the Next directory is done early at all times |
| 26 | They can also choose to behave differently at any time . |
| 27 | Whatever he is doing , you must remember that he must be positioned correctly at all times to prevent his spasticity from increasing . |
| 28 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 29 | The basic set-up consists of rather basic apparatus out of a school laboratory — battery , heavy water , metal electrodes and meters for heat or neutrons — which is so widely available that the discovery could have been made anywhere at any time in the preceding half century ; but somehow it has been overlooked by two generations of scientists until suddenly in 1989 not one but two groups in the same location simultaneously announce their breakthroughs . |
| 30 | Facilities for homeless people are of course open only at certain times of the day and I had n't the money to go anywhere else . |