Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | EIB loans are usually made in the form of a ‘ cocktail ’ of several currencies , depending upon the currencies which the Bank has available at the time of the loan . |
2 | No discipline seems pleasant at the time , but painful . |
3 | It seems ironic at a time of mounting concern about the excessive hours of junior hospital doctors . |
4 | Despite the talk in US government circles only three years ago , of synfuels being what would save the US from OPEC oil dependence , the programme has become unpopular and seems likely at the time of writing to become an offering to appease fears of further growth in the federal budget deficit . |
5 | Sometimes our dreams tell coherent stories , but more often they are a jumble that seems logical at the time but is revealed by our conscious memory as a nonsense . |
6 | and I thought come into my head , it 's probably complete rubbish but it seems logical at the time which was , if you got rid of er , a lot of the various taxes that they paid and put everything on to VAT , apart from the fact that you 'd be a few , just by upping the rate of VAT they would collect the extra monies , you 'd save a lot of the money you 'd pay in administration costs by , all the various different departments er |
7 | It seems providential at a time when good news and dreams are in short supply : 430 unknown drawings by Amedeo Modigliani from his eight crucial years in Paris ( 1906–14 ) , which will be published by Noel Alexandre in September . |
8 | Latest traffic figures available at the time of writing showed that the airport had its busiest October on record . |
9 | Supporters of the quantity theory argued that V will be influenced by the customs and payments practices prevailing at the time , and that such arrangements change only slowly . |
10 | Intelligence reports available at the time spelt out clearly that one of the Iraqi directors of the firm was involved in Saddam 's race for the bomb . |