Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] at [adj] times [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |
| 2 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 3 | The point about the Urgonian limestones , say , is that we know that they are of about the same age throughout Europe in spite of the fact that fossil evidence shows them to have started and ended at different times in different places . |
| 4 | At hotels near airports and in major cities visitors are arriving and departing at all times with peak periods being the morning departures and arrivals building up during late afternoon and early evening . |
| 5 | Other families may not have meal-times but eat at erratic times of the day . |
| 6 | Think of the five other roads as leaving at various times on a clock face ; as already pointed out , all movement on roundabouts is in a clockwise direction . |