Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idealised FAOR solutions , although impractical to implement at the time , nonetheless provided a goal that could be pursued via a strategy that would recognise the speed of technological developments , the availability of finance , and other priorities of the two departments . |
| 2 | Section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977 , was not brought into force for another five years until 1982 , Ministers of both parties having accepted the advice of Home Office officials that the provision was too risky to implement at a time of acute overcrowding in the prisons . |
| 3 | ‘ I wonder how long we are prepared to vacillate at a time when Britain , and all that Britain stands for , and human civilization , are in peril ? ’ |
| 4 | Then , there is the real possibility that a serious defeat for the government could result in a general election and , under the British system , the opposition , just as much as the government , would prefer this to happen at a time favourable to themselves . |
| 5 | With these , but with no filming permits , since they were impossible to obtain at the time , we winged it to the steaming metropolis of Jakarta . |
| 6 | There are situations where the reciprocal of a rate would make more sense than the original rate : ergonomists , for example , might find it more natural to look at the time it takes a person to produce a fixed number of items rather than at the output a person produces from a machine in a fixed period of time . |
| 7 | Or even if you have to clarify the title by saying who is responsible for making sure that materials that you use arrive at the place that they 're supposed to arrive at the time . |
| 8 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 9 | Where the nuisance was in existence at the time the abatement notice was served , and continued or was likely to recur at the time proceedings for a nuisance order began then whether or not it was continuing or was likely to recur at the date of the hearing , the court must also order the defendant to pay the local authority the cost of the proceedings to obtain the nuisance order . |
| 10 | I was not familiar enough , yet , with the light nights of the Highlands to be able to guess at the time , but the sky was paler , and the stars were fading . |
| 11 | If for any reason the plaintiff was unable to come at the time fixed for his hearing , he became ‘ non-suited ’ , and the man he hoped to sue could collect the deposit he had left with the clerk on starting the action . |
| 12 | First , black workers were recruited for precisely those jobs , usually poorly paid and involving unpleasant working conditions , which the indigenous white working class was able to reject at the time of economic expansion , thus preventing the development of bottlenecks in production and permitting higher levels of capital accumulation . |
| 13 | ‘ They leave you in a certain mood , which you might not be able to explain at the time , but it gets under your skin . ’ |
| 14 | I simply stopped because I did n't have anything more to say at the time . |
| 15 | During his first march into the west Gorbad broke into many Dwarf tombs and stole the magic weapons they contained , an act of desecration that enraged the Dwarfs but which they were powerless to prevent at the time . |
| 16 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |
| 17 | Positivism particularly favours the indeterminate sentence : it is premature to decide at the time of sentence how long the offender should be detained for , since this may depend on how quickly the treatment works ; ideally therefore the release decision should be left in the hands of treatment experts to take at a later date . |