Example sentences of "[to-vb] at a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lasted all too shortly — maybe a fortnight or so — before they needed to be recharged , and they always seemed to fade at a crucial time , in the middle of your favourite programme . |
| 2 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 3 | To avoid inconvenience it may be scheduled to run at a specific time when LIFESPAN itself is not required . |
| 4 | Concern grew when they failed to return to base at an agreed time , after delivering aid to the besiged town of Travnik . |
| 5 | When you telephone someone you are more likely to intrude at an inconvenient time and not realize it . |
| 6 | As a result , they are normally very tired during weekdays when they are compelled to wake at a normal time for work . |
| 7 | The bank manager , accountant , solicitor or building contractor might have something to offer at a particular time or for a particular purpose but they would not be fully established voting members of the group . |
| 8 | Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ? |
| 9 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 10 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |