Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] an [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 2 | With the academic year 1992/93 seeing the first full year of modularised courses at Napier , it was seen as an appropriate time to examine undergraduate , postgraduate , and HND courses in relation to the inclusion of enterprise/ transferable skills in course descriptors . |
| 3 | ( Hereford cattle entries have slumped to an all time low of just fifty nine here at the show.The ancient local breed has been hit by competition from Continental cattle.But now the Hereford farmers are fighting back with a scheme to boost beef sales.Richard Barnett reports : ) |
| 4 | But we passed again , later , and the hands had n't moved to an earlier time . |
| 5 | Development and consultation time has been short , and there are a number of features which will require close scrutiny during the early stages of piloting , so that adjustments can be made at an appropriate time . |
| 6 | You will have to weigh it again once it is stuffed for an exact time . |
| 7 | An oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation has a mean cost of £783 based on an average time in theatre ( including induction and recovery ) of around three hours and includes the cost of the staples £130 ) . |
| 8 | ‘ Being called at an inconvenient time by an insensitive caller who assumes that since you 've answered the phone it must be convenient to talk ’ . |
| 9 | Up to the beginning of this century people believed in an absolute time . |
| 10 | Furniture and furnishings in Parma show a strong French influence , too , being Parmesan adaptations of the Empire style ; and the local dialect has numerous words which are purely French ( although these must have been imported at an earlier time , perhaps under the Bourbons in the eighteenth century ) — armoir for armadio ( a wardrobe ) , vin for vino , boucho for tappo ( a cork ) , artichaut for carciofo ( an artichoke ) , and so on . |
| 11 | If sleep is taken at an unusual time , the changes associated with it ( the release of some hormones , the type of sleep ) will be affected to different extents depending on whether they are dominated by external factors or the body clock . |
| 12 | the affairs of the target company are not to be hindered for an unreasonable time |
| 13 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 14 | As they fall , as in the example given , they merely replace what was lost in an earlier time period . |
| 15 | The hygienists considered only physical needs as legitimate — and even hunger , if expressed at an unsuitable time , was excluded . |
| 16 | It may be possible to study for the course by distance learning , so that the modules can be covered at an appropriate time in your training . |
| 17 | If a variable x(t) is plotted against itself delayed by an appropriate time lag T , then x(t) plotted against x(t+T) will give a point for a sink , and a single closed loop for a limit cycle . |