Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [art] [noun] [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And thirdly , and certainly not erm least , we hoped ourselves to benefit at a time when the Government cutbacks were just come into force , which were requiring us to raise erm more income from non-government source . |
| 2 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |
| 3 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 4 | In the bond market , the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling ; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it can not sell in such conditions , that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling . |
| 5 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 6 | McIllvanney said angrily , then turned to look at the yard where a silver-grey stretch limo , its windows tinted black against the sun , rolled ponderously to park beside the stairs to his office . |
| 7 | Like a child who can not bear to look at the cupboard where the witch might live , she stared past the bench and its mummified shape . |
| 8 | When you come to think of it though it 's s to me it makes sense to start at the top where we have done and work your way down does n't it ? |
| 9 | In the more seasonal forests , hummingbirds may be migratory , but in all forests they tend to breed at the time when the flowers on which they depend are most abundant , though as with the thrips and the Shorea species , there is some staggering of flowering times and avoidance of competition for pollinators between plants . |
| 10 | It is ironic that the British government should have gone through so many contortions over local government tax , finally to arrive at a system whereby the bulk of tax is raised centrally and distributed to the local authorities , while such a system has been the norm in Germany for decades . |
| 11 | However , by late 1206 , it is likely that Innocent sensed that Otto 's cause was lost , for in a letter of probably August 1206 to the patriarch of Aquileia , Philip is called princeps and no longer dux , but he proceeded cautiously , aiming to arrive at a point where he might arbitrate between the parties . |
| 12 | After travelling around the continent to a constellation of cities linked by who her father knew , it was a relief to cross the Channel alone and to arrive at a place where it was not generally such a struggle to make herself understood . |
| 13 | They cover the whole spectrum of agriculture and forestry and deal with the necessity to arrive at a situation where we no longer talk about a common agricultural policy but a common rural policy . |
| 14 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 15 | Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made . |
| 16 | Doctors faced with a refusal of consent have to give very careful and detailed consideration to what was the patient 's capacity to decide at the time when the decision was made . |
| 17 | The north gate is presumed to lie at the point where modern Northgate Street cuts the line of the wall ; a Roman street underlying the modern one here would seem to confirm the correctness of this assumption . |
| 18 | Certainly Hearts created precious few chances , and the fact their goal , which came in the 20th minute , stemmed from a blunder must have proved hard for United to swallow at a ground where they last won in 1985 . |
| 19 | So , as Forster points out , AMV has the cash resources to expand at a time when many target companies are temptingly priced . |
| 20 | ‘ I wonder how long we are prepared to vacillate at a time when Britain , and all that Britain stands for , and human civilization , are in peril ? ’ |
| 21 | I think one wants to go at a time when people still want you to stay , rather than stay until people want you to go . |
| 22 | This made it easy for the doctor to see at a glance how Vincent 's temperature had changed up or down , since the operation without studying a long list of figures . |
| 23 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 24 | He clearly regards the management of the mound as his own particular responsibility and expertise , for if the female comes to the mound to lay at a time when opening it might cause a dangerous fluctuation in its temperature , he will refuse to do so and drives her away . |
| 25 | Because the individual moving into a local community is not concerned with the congestion costs that this implies for existing residents , her decision to move will be determined by the difference between and and there will be no incentive to move at a point when is equal to . |
| 26 | The key was to act at the moment when conditions were most conducive to the course upon which de Gaulle had decided . |
| 27 | First , it makes it a criminal offence for anyone in the course of a business to display at a place where consumer deals are likely to be made ( e.g. at a shop or garage ) a notice of an exemption clause which is void by virtue of section 6 of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 28 | He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent . |
| 29 | The intuition behind this optimal strategy is straightforward : it is optimal to sell all or nothing — all when the current price is higher than the price that one can expect to get on future sales , nothing otherwise ; it is optimal to produce at the point where marginal cost equals the expected price on sales . |