Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handfast Point was joined to the cliff by a narrow ridge at this time . |
| 2 | The following extract from the introduction summarises the prevailing situation : Deaf people are fairly certain to encounter deaf discrimination at some time : perhaps in the education they receive , in the career opportunities open to them , or during their day-to-day lives . |
| 3 | It is a personal , highly subjective account which seeks to relate my experience as an Irish lesbian , my involvement in political action at that time and my subsequent emigration to England in the mid-seventies . |
| 4 | The decision of most lesbians with any political sensibility at that time to do this left many mixed gay organizations in a quandary . |
| 5 | Indeed , if his ( undated ) grant to the abbey of Fécamp ( S 949 ) is genuine , one might suppose that he visited the Norman coast at some time , and his generosity to a foundation which had been particularly favoured by the ducal family ( in 1001 Richard II invited the celebrated monastic reformer William of Dijon to be its abbot ) seems most likely to mean that his relations with them were still satisfactory . |
| 6 | It has become standard practice to picture the two cultures as standing in the most acute opposition at that time . |
| 7 | In the hydrochlorothiazide group one patient ( case 20 ) ( initially with high microalbuminuria ) developed high blood pressure not controlled after six months of treatment ( he still had high microalbuminuria at this time ) , and he was therefore excluded according to the protocol . |
| 8 | The Nonconformists were therefore greatly encouraged and enjoyed much popular support at this time . |
| 9 | The questions provoked by the Wolfenden approach were not new ones ( John Stuart Mill and James Fitzjames Stephens had both discussed such issues ) but they were particularly topical at this point , for questions of law and morality were at the forefront of public consciousness at this time because of , for example , the Wildeblood/Pitt-Rivers case . |
| 10 | There were two elements in the English Department at that time . |
| 11 | He added that it would be ‘ a grave error at this time of all times to remove the momentum for this process ’ . |
| 12 | As befits the objects of homosexual desire at that time , this new generation of teenybop pop stars were ‘ boy slaves ’ — more Limply Leslie than Rape Hunger — and failed to emerge from the pin-up process with their masculinity intact . |
| 13 | Since the rulers of neither country were inclined to full-scale war at this time , diplomatic moves were made to sort the matter out , and the captives were hastily returned . |
| 14 | Well over half the adolescents in care experience residential placement at some time ( Rowe et al . , |
| 15 | In other words , he endeavoured to introduce into Siberia something which was after all only a rudimentary concept at that time in metropolitan Russia , that is , the ‘ rule of law ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ Now if it were Lady ’ she named a titled person at that time popular on television — ‘ it might make a difference . |
| 17 | English education at that time was very hierarchical . |
| 18 | The dose commitment on emerging from the shelter after two weeks would be no less than 1700 rads and the daily dose at that time would be 46 rads . |
| 19 | I should be happy to discuss any particular problems with the hon. Gentleman at any time . |
| 20 | He sees part of the answer in the massive recession suffered by the British economy at that time , a point to which we shall return below . |
| 21 | It is , of course , possible to explain the relatively confused state of party cultural policy at this time as the inevitable consequence of the leadership 's lack of interest in cultural matters . |
| 22 | A British captain at one time ran the Chinese navy and the Persian government tried to get an American to run its finances . |
| 23 | The report of this body , which did not appear until 1909 , contains a most thorough discussion of British social policy at that time . |
| 24 | Although there was clear authority at that time for the proposition that a man could not be guilty of the rape of a woman who lived with him outside marriage , Hale himself curtailed it by stating that cohabitation was not a defence but merely some evidence of consent . |
| 25 | I thought that elementary particles were less attractive because , although scientists were finding lots of new particles , there was no proper theory at that time . |
| 26 | The implications of both Haringey and Cleveland as indicators of the meaning of family life and sexual choice at that time have yet to be explored . |
| 27 | This was typical of the intellectual , experimental tendencies in French music at this time , the most important of which was musique mesuree a l'antique which owed its inception to a crackbrained idea of the poet Antoine de Balf , an associate of Ronsard and Du Bellay in the Pléiade , who in 1570 persuaded Charles IX to establish an Académie de Poesie et de Musique . |
| 28 | Perhaps Bruiser joined the queue knocking at Gwen Evans 's back door at some time . |
| 29 | and there 's a lot of er of what people even leave their , their fortunes to look after some animal and they do n't leave it to people like er the lady sitting here who are , folk , folk are starving , but then its because people are needed and people are needed by their children , but there also needed by their men folk and I think its when they turn to being a mother to their men that , you know , even the , the love that they have , er whether its been a sexual love at one time , er friendly love becomes a very caring love and er I think that 's what we all remember erm those of us who have lost our husbands , that would like to have that , that part back again |
| 30 | ‘ It was n't a proper novel at that time . |