Example sentences of "[noun sg] at a [adj] time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Apart from containing pictures of part of the scene where it is said the violent disorder had taken place and an incident leading up to the arrival of the police which was held to be part of the res gestae , the tape would have been useful to establish alibis some defendants wished to rely upon in respect of their presence in the club at a relevant time and the timing between significant incidents . |
| 2 | It is assumed that the two defendants have committed some crime at a stated time — say between 10 and 11 p.m. last Wednesday — and have set up an alibi . |
| 3 | It illustrates , in an acute form perhaps , the frequently encountered problem of establishing the version of a text which is in force at a given time when that text has been much amended , whether it be the latest version or the version in force at a particular date in the past . |
| 4 | Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do . |
| 5 | BKZ consider that this effect of previous history results from the stored elastic energy in the configuration at a previous time and they then assume the stress at time t to be the sum of all the contributions from all . |
| 6 | We can notice , too , that the deictic aspect of the definite referring expression the sun ( the definite article being a deictic term ) is contextually ambiguous — I could use it homophorically ( the sun , generally ) or deictically ( the sun at a particular time and place ) . |
| 7 | This weakened the Section 's influence at a crucial time and correspondingly strengthened the hand of the Treasury . |
| 8 | Sets of boundary conditions that tell us the state of some regions of the universe at a certain time and what effects propagate into it subsequently from the rest of the universe . |
| 9 | WALSINGHAM became a shrine to Our Lady at a difficult time when the Turks overran the Holy Land and stopped pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Nazareth for which the English were already renowned . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the SeHCAT value corresponds to a seven day elimination of bile acids , whereas the concentration of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one only reflects the synthesis at a certain time . |
| 11 | The choice of Mr Bernerd ( who recently hit the headlines in connection with the case of ex-Heritage Minister David Mellor and Ms Antonia de Sancha ) as the company 's financial backer , seems to have been an uneasy choice and has not resulted in a long-term commitment to the gallery at a difficult time for the art market . |
| 12 | While this is not insignificant ( a weakness of the lecture or the teacher-directed lesson is that it must take place at a pre-set time irrespective of student readiness ) it is hardly Liberty Hall . |
| 13 | ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell . |
| 14 | The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there . |
| 15 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |
| 16 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 17 | Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation . |
| 18 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 19 | Singular statements , unlike a second class of statements that we will meet shortly , refer to a particular occurrence or state of affairs at a particular place at a particular time . |
| 20 | The second method for regeneration to be initiated is by a time clock , so that it takes place at a convenient time such as during the night . |
| 21 | Insofar as our interest is in the market process and its competitive character , we should no more be surprised that only one producer is making a product at a particular time than that of many producers of a particular product one is charging a price which no other producer is asking . |
| 22 | Announcing his departure , Hickey commented : ‘ I am leaving the post at a natural time in Filmhouse 's history and on a personal level it enables me to take on a new challenge while moving to another area of the film industry . |
| 23 | Without the relational property of being on the mat at a particular time the cat would not be the ontological individual it is . |
| 24 | This process of the effective addition of value to meet a specific executive information need at a specific time and place is most certainly not a trivial task . |
| 25 | Life was faster , demands changed more quickly , and people were included because they met a particular need at a particular time . |
| 26 | They say their findings are not intended to be taken as predictions , rather as snapshots of public opinion at a particular time ( though they are quick to claim credit when their ‘ snapshots ’ coincide with the final result ) . |
| 27 | A pictorial representation of the age-sex structure of a population at a particular time is provided by an age-sex profile or population pyramid . |
| 28 | Commenting on the appointment , The Hindu of June 8 stated that Verma assumed charge at a critical time " when terrorist activity has increased as compared to last year , and the law and order machinery appears demoralized " . |
| 29 | Bem and Locksley and Colten agree that sex-role inventories express ideas of gender in a particular community at a particular time , and so display built-in constraints and obsolescence ( Bell and Schaffer 1984 ) . |
| 30 | A place could become holy through some historical event , a memory of a work of God done at the site at a particular time . |