Example sentences of "[verb] at [det] time [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A child is not to be taken as having a learning difficulty solely because the language ( or form of the language ) in which he is or will be taught is different from a language ( or from of language ) which has at any time been spoken in the house . |
| 2 | Where value has at any time been given for a bill the holder is deemed to be a holder for value as regards the acceptor and all parties to the bill who became parties prior to such time . |
| 3 | Burnage Court , the big house in the picture hidden in trees at the end , has at some time been cruelly treated , with badly applied half-timbering on the ground floor and tile-hanging on the first . |
| 4 | One advantage Bedfordshire has at this time was that packages such as SIR , EDFAX and COMMUNITEL were being piloted in the country and one librarian was involved in a Prestel project . |
| 5 | What I think should be done at that time was that the Government should be fifty percent shares in it so that anything that 's er sample that 's brought up they should know what it is . |
| 6 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 7 | One suggestion made at this time was that the strongest swimmers among the Jews should jump overboard at intervals , thus forcing the St Louis to stop and turn round . |
| 8 | One suggestion made at this time was that Cell-y-bedd should be demolished . |
| 9 | It is particularly notable that neither in the mines nor in the other industries nationalised at that time was there any substantial movement towards workers ' control . |
| 10 | Such unemployment as exists at any time is due wholly to the frictional resistances [ which ] prevent wage and price adjustments being made instantaneously . |
| 11 | One that everybody seems to have played at some time is Tetris . |
| 12 | The 1947 Press Commission had already pointed it out — but the proportion sharing at that time was only one-fifth . |
| 13 | However , most of the work he was doing at this time was of a minor nature . |
| 14 | The only one interested at that time was Thornton , so he had to stay for the moment . |
| 15 | Towards the end of the novel , the narrator records : " What Antoine needed at that time was to find someone capable of proving to him that his past was worthy of being admired , that it contained elements worthy of gratitude and friendship . " |
| 16 | The last thing I needed at that time was pity . |
| 17 | I had an image of GLF existing through meeting people and talking to them , but the only physical evidence I saw at that time was badges saying GLF . |
| 18 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 19 | It is generally agreed that the primitive mammals existing at that time were shrew-like creatures that lived by eating insects , and that the various groups of mammals that we see today , such as cats , rats , monkeys , whales , and horses , all evolved from this unpromising ancestor . |
| 20 | The legal system existing at any time is explained as functional for the development of the productive forces at that time , or ( in another version ) for the relations of production at that time . |
| 21 | Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable . |
| 22 | One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) . |
| 23 | In October 1922 , employees ' wages were reduced by three shillings a week ! conditions at that time were severe ; men had to serve for several years on the seasonal staff before being taken on as a regular . |
| 24 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |
| 25 | In 1839 Brigham Young , the US religious leader , visited Britain and established a mission that contributed many converts to the Mormon church in America ; among the many who emigrated at that time were Thomas and Mary Jones from Llanaber in Wales . |
| 26 | ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders . |
| 27 | A useful initiative taken at this time was the establishment of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre , designed to take cultural relations out of the hands of the ‘ Friendship Societies ’ which had restricted visitors from the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ to contact with groups of fellow-travellers in this country . |
| 28 | He was opening for a rock band and his playing at that time was the best , for me . |
| 29 | The knowledge which it produces at any time is tentative and always open to challenge by further evidence . |
| 30 | The knowledge it produces at any time is tentative and always open to challenge by further evidence . |