Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [adj -er] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That 's his first for the club and could n't have come at a better time for Hereford , though . |
| 32 | New boy , Brian Marwood gave them the lead ; his first goal for the club and it could n't have come at a better time . |
| 33 | And it could n't have come at a better time for the 29 year old bowler in this his benefit season . |
| 34 | Yes , so what er that council on study and television er could n't of come at a better time Don |
| 35 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 36 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 37 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 38 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 39 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 40 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 41 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 42 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 43 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 44 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |
| 45 | Apart from generalities relating to balanced inclined planes , one patent sought to protect details of the lift as a whole ; the second sought to protect the device of gradually reducing the gradient of the upper end of the incline to balance the apparent loss in weight of the descending tank as it became immersed at the lower level . |
| 46 | There is also evidence that , contrary to findings in volunteers , activated charcoal will increase the elimination of salicylates , possibly because drug metabolising enzyme systems are fully saturated at the higher plasma concentrations attained in cases of acute poisoning . |
| 47 | When you have finished with the artwork , it can be stored in a stiff envelope or a file , along with the component layout diagram , so that it can be modified or re-used at a later date . |
| 48 | Their fun , courtesy of the Conservative Party , was to come at a later stage . |
| 49 | The first part of this book therefore looks at the broader business objectives and implications of being involved in a personal injury practice . |
| 50 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 51 | Thus a computer architecture and instruction set can be frozen at a later stage in the design process , and can be altered as a result of any inadequacies or improvements . |
| 52 | Unfortunately , the group did not define fetal distress , and the increased incidence may have been related to the higher rate of meconium staining of the amniotic fluid in spontaneous labours , which is to be expected at a later gestation . |
| 53 | Having looked at the broader canvas of mission in these first two chapters , we now focus our attention without apology on the need for ‘ church growth ’ . |
| 54 | Subjective awareness ( a positive answer to the question ‘ Do you feel low ? ’ ) occurred at a lower blood glucose concentration than the initial adrenaline response but the threshold was identical for the two insulins ( 2.5 ( 0.1 ) mmol/l ) . |
| 55 | The most serious of the disorders occurred at the Broadwater Farm Estate , in Tottenham , London . |
| 56 | In every case the estimate of β was markedly higher for the period closer to delivery , i.e. volatility declines at a faster rate in the fifty days just before delivery . |
| 57 | The result is that tasks such as redistribution , which in the fiscal federalism literature are seen as a prerogative of central government , may ( given the imperfections of the Tiebout mechanism and the informational requirements of administration ) be shown to be better pursued at a lower level of government when broader considerations are taken into account . |
| 58 | Guinness has been targeted at a wider audience , in particular the more individualistic drinker , a position which is supported by innovative advertising around the world . |
| 59 | For some specialised yarns , say those with knops , or the hairy yarns , you will probably need to work at a looser tension for the cables to show but this is not to their disadvantage since the cables , loosely worked , frequently add to the richness of the finished look . |
| 60 | This approach does however force the wireframe modeller to work at a higher level of understanding than exists in most present systems . |