Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He received a lesser ban at about the same time for receiving three yellow cards too , and because his team have still at least one game to play , the Irish international must serve his ban immediately .
2 Three guerrillas were executed at about the same time for offences against civilians , according to the INPFL newspaper Scorpion on Aug. 2 .
3 I played a similar round at about the same time at the Nabisco/ Dinah Shore Tournament at Mission Hills , California .
4 His wife was again allowed to visit him about the same time on the following ( or third ) day of custody .
5 The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England .
6 The effect of Law 's abrupt departure was magnified by the departure at about the same time of Walter Long , the only other Unionist of weight who combined an acceptance of coalition ( as a defence against Labour ) with a determination that the integrity of the party should not be compromised in any way .
7 Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry .
8 A similar discovery was made about the same time by the Russian scientist Lev Davidovich Landau .
9 About the same time in Iowa , a Quaker farmer called Jesse Hiatt discovered a sucker sprouting from the roots of a dead tree .
10 All these ideas were incorporated into the theory of plate tectonics which was more or less separately developed by a number of workers at about the same time in the late 1960s .
11 Captain Goldsborough , wrapped in his thick , black fur , and with a little time to while away until the road should be clear of wedding-carriages , appeared to be telling her so .
12 The biggest problem with the diabetic clinic is that time tends to be very limited and perhaps it is best regarded as a place for assessment and the identification of problems , with a little time for education .
13 The reduction in the plasma CRP concentration as the acute phase response subsides may be similarly rapid , with a fall from peak with a half time of 48 hours , as hepatocyte production of CRP rapidly decreases .
14 Entry into the EC challenged parliamentary sovereignty ; the growth of direct action and extra-parliamentary politics in Northern Ireland and on the mainland challenged the rule of law and the stability of the liberal-democratic state ; the ups-and-downs of nationalism in Wales and Scotland challenged the unitary state and threatened the break-up of Britain ; the use of referenda [ popular and direct votes on issues ] revealed the crumbling legitimacy attaching to the indirect democracy of voting for people to parliament ; the conventions underpinning cabinet government were buffeted by a trend to " open government " that weakened collective responsibility and Cabinet solidarity ; and developments within the Labour Party have had constitutional implications at the self-same time as the Liberals and SDP have sought to imprint themselves directly onto the British constitution with proposals for radical constitutional change including proportional representation .
15 His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets .
16 If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability .
17 In the words of King ( 1987 ) the potential of agroforestry is ‘ … fast becoming recognised as a system which is capable of yielding both wood and food and at the same time of conserving and rehabilitating ecosystems ’ .
18 The A. & P. Gypsies , by the way , were among the very first stars to have a radio ‘ series ’ — a programme which was broadcast regularly from the same station at the same time of the same day of the week .
19 Lesley Faragher is Britain 's top lady rodeo star yet is decidedly feminine , quiet , petite and at the same time of writing possesses the warm glow as an expectant mother .
20 Clearly much that is read provides insights into the emotional lives of others , and at the same time of ourselves .
21 He thought of her , and thought at the same time of Oxford ; and remembered , with sudden guilt , the letter from his mother , which he had not yet read .
22 The only way you can have a reasonably fair assessment of weight loss if you are trying to lose weight is to weigh yourself once a week , on the same scales , at the same time of the day and preferably with no clothes on !
23 It is doubtful whether such an explanation of naturally occurring polymorphism could be tested without long-term , detailed recording , not only of the variety of genetic changes occurring within clover populations , but at the same time of a detailed recording of the known hazards in the life of the clover plant over the seasons and the years .
24 Difficult decisions will need to be made to ensure that commissioned research is sufficiently responsive to the needs of purchasing authorities but at the same time of sufficient scientific rigour to attract good quality academic researchers .
25 To ensure a regular supply of embryos at a constant development stage at the same time of day throughout the year , a constant lighting regime is required .
26 But the wavelength multiplied by the frequency is always equal to the velocity of light , so this decrease in wavelength has the result at the same time of increasing the frequency v. Inevitably we thereby increase the energy carried by a single photon and make its interaction with the electron correspondingly more rumbustious ( with the effect of increasing the degree of uncontrollable disturbance to its momentum ) .
27 Perform the latter test at the same time of day , as there can be a significant ( but not usually harmful ) fluctuation over a 24-hour period , particularly in a planted pool .
28 Subjects were studied at the same time of day on four occasions at least seven days apart .
29 Among the means of relieving patients from the monotony of an asylum and of preserving bodily health and at the same time of improving the conditions of the mind and prompting recovery , employment of some kind or other ranks highest .
30 She had spoken eloquently — and not without quoting American authors — of the opportunities facing Britain in 1988 , of Mrs Margaret Thatcher 's remarkable drive to revive the economy , and at the same time of the considerable drawing in of horns to which the University had been forced .
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