Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.

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31 It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled .
32 Another angle on psychological differences between blacks and whites is given by Worthy and Markle who argue that white sportsmen do better at self-paced activities , ‘ ones in which the individual responds , when he chooses , to a relatively static or unchanging stimulus ’ , whereas blacks have an edge in reactive activities , ‘ in which the individual must respond appropriately and at the right time to changes in the stimulus situation ’ ( 1970 ) .
33 Under the Mental Health Act 1959 patients maintained on guardianship orders knew that drug treatment could be enforced and therefore appeared regularly for depot injection on the right day and at the right time without pressure or demur .
34 Done correctly , and at the right time , it can add power to the technique being performed .
35 The young South African concluded he was in the right place , and at the right time .
36 Is he not interested in ensuring that building skills are available and , more importantly , that homes are made available in the right place and at the right time ?
37 Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 .
38 Similar displacements occurred and Africans were confined to reserves in Kenya , or to tribal trust lands in Zimbabwe ( Southern Rhodesia ) and at the present time in the Bantustans by the Republic of South Africa .
39 There is in this respect a total difference between Community legislation and British primary legislation , in respect of which there is no obligation to state reasons and at the present time no practice of doing so .
40 Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required .
41 We have also suffered from rain in the wrong place and at the wrong time .
42 Hahnemann and his followers left us a legacy of many hundreds of remedies and the number has continued to grow until at the present time there are between two and three thousand remedies in the homoeopathic materia medica , each with its remedy picture , some of which have been more extensively worked out than others .
43 But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference .
44 In the stressed state Supposing that the initial compliances were equal we would have , removing the primes , that is , the compliance at a temperature T is the same as that at temperature To but for the reduced time .
45 But in the mean time , whose hand has Granovsky escaped from ?
46 But in the mean time , encouraged perhaps by such apparent signs of weakness , perhaps simply by pressure on their order-books , the Edinburgh master printers began recruiting girl apprentices in larger numbers than ever before during the early years of the century , to the growing despair of the ETS and increasing anger from the male trade-union movement in general .
47 But in the mean time my wages I 've had last week have been spent
48 shoes off nowadays , but before the other time , he
49 It became evident in the course of analysing the submissions that a majority of those responding to the question objected not to the underlying principle but to the proposed time scale of 2–3 days .
50 The reasons for this are not clear , but at the present time two diseases in particular , syphilis and type-B viral hepatitis , seem to be largely the preserve of the male homosexual .
51 But at the present time the pressures seem to be particularly intense .
52 The system , with formal judicial intervention , has worked successfully in the US ; it operates informally but without full judicial approval in England and Wales ; but at the present time it obtains not at all in Scotland .
53 But at the present time , I mean Mr er , might have more information , but my information was that erm , after the V P C reported , was that there was just no alternative dip in the foreseeable future .
54 I mean I 'd had a sort of cry I suppose , but at the actual time I was glad I had a daughter [ after two sons ] .
55 It will thus be seen that the Party is in favour of Electoral Reform being dealt with on a sound basis , but at the proper time .
56 This is an attractive idea , but for most adults the goal of learning through communicating naturally in the language throughout the day will , sadly , never be a practical one ; we have to continue to make use of something like formal classroom teaching because of the limited time and resources available .
57 Partly , it seems , because of the inherent time delay in innovating such contracts .
58 This survey provides a particularly rich source of data because of the long time span covered .
59 These are so faint and they only show up because of the long time exposure .
60 While the costs of maintaining the closed route will be saved , these may be offset by the need to deploy additional resources because of the extra time required to send trains via the diversionary route .
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