Example sentences of "at [det] given " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing you can be sure of is that the panel will know the words of these characters very well ( they will probably be able to prompt you at any given moment should you ‘ dry ’ ) but each and every time the lines are spoken by a new voice they are different in their texture , humour , drama and music . |
| 2 | The training environment for this must always be an 8m x 8m ( 9.5yd x 9.5 yd ) area , and you should practise until you are sure of your position within it at any given time . |
| 3 | Flavell accounts for this paradox in terms of , what he calls , cognitive salience , which amounts to the claim that the thought of the three-year-old is determined by whatever is ‘ up front in consciousness ’ at any given moment . |
| 4 | If we read ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ through with Tate 's commentary at our elbow , we see at any given point what he means : he has a good ear , as we might expect from his own poems ( which are however metrical , as ‘ Ash-Wednesday ’ is n't ) . |
| 5 | Morality , Sir Monty points out , is an integral part of a society 's culture at any given time in its history , and in his view our moral conditions have changed radically . |
| 6 | Half of all aircraft are said to be inoperable and two thirds of all vessels are in port at any given time . |
| 7 | Evidence of how the properties of these metals were manipulated can indicate the technical level of a society at any given time . |
| 8 | She is whatever the majority of men regard as sexy at any given moment . |
| 9 | But as the pollsters say again and again , even at their most accurate they can only give ‘ snapshots ’ of opinion at any given moment . |
| 10 | When it comes to drawing , however , most of us , parents and teachers alike , have little idea of the normal standard we would expect from children at any given age . |
| 11 | There are many places which once were considerably advantaged economically due to the presence of an industry such as textiles , mining or in-shore fishing , but which today are greatly disadvantaged compared with certain other areas , at any given moment of time . |
| 12 | At the British Telecom satellite station at Goonhilly in Cornwall at any given time there are more than 30,000 separate circuits in use while the new fibre-optical cable laid across the Atlantic in December 1988 can handle up to 40,000 separate conversations . |
| 13 | ‘ The political stance adopted by a class at any given time will be i part a function of the structure of the political system as whole and the concrete possibilities which exist in a specific situation for the application of various kinds of class alliances ’ ( Roxborough 1979 : 82 ) . |
| 14 | But it may yield an agreement to establish a constitutional framework most likely to lead to the pursuit of well-founded ideals , given the information available at any given time . |
| 15 | For one thing , how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected ? |
| 16 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 17 | The outlines of his life are familiar but , because it fell into three parts separated by place as well as time , it is obscure in detail even to those who were closest to him at any given time . |
| 18 | Judgement of price is a difficult matter , for it requires an awareness of the pricing structure of publishing which has produced a given price at any given time . |
| 19 | When the fish are very big , and the shoal small , only one or two bream will make an appearance at any given time . |
| 20 | You can not attack an ‘ enemy ’ unless you know where in his environment you can find him at any given time , and the best techniques , properly applied , are needed to bring about his downfall . |
| 21 | It is about educating pupils ( and how rarely are they mentioned in recent major legislation ! ) effectively and efficiently based on the school 's own unique needs and priorities at any given time . |
| 22 | At any given age a child might be on quite different levels for difference subjects . |
| 23 | His objectives were to give a guide to the better choice of an animal ; to establish the true conformation of the racehorse , setting a standard for an ideal animal to achieve maximum speed , and at any given time to discover whether the breeds had improved or degenerated . |
| 24 | There are terminal and microcomputer facilities at all four campuses , with over 3000 students registered at any given time for use of the central DEC VAX range of computers . |
| 25 | There are terminal and microcomputer facilities at all four campuses , with over 3000 students registered at any given time for use of the central DEC VAX range of computers . |
| 26 | In addition , with co-processing the order of the day at Sellafield , it is proving very difficult to keep tabs on who has what grade of plutonium where at any given moment . |
| 27 | Fashions change at an alarming rate and at any given time experts hold differing views . |
| 28 | At any given moment our mind is wandering into the future or into the past ; we are very rarely present in the here and now . |
| 29 | The great benefit of the two-stroke is that , at any given engine speed , it fires twice as frequently as a four-stroke with the same number of cylinders . |
| 30 | I would have needed an air traffic control centre to keep track of where everyone was at any given moment . |