Example sentences of "at the [noun sg] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most are aggregate studies , looking at the correlation over time or across space between levels of crime and unemployment . |
| 2 | At the beginning of time two spirits were created by Ahura Mazdah , the good spirit Spenista Mainyu ( later called Ohrmazd ) and the evil and destructive spirit Angra Mainyu ( later called Ahriman ) . |
| 3 | At the beginning of time it was said to have arisen from the primeval waters , the waters of Chaos . |
| 4 | This is rather like the big bang at the beginning of time , only it would be an end of time for the collapsing body and the astronaut . |
| 5 | What were the " boundary conditions " at the beginning of time ? |
| 6 | In order to predict how the universe should have started off , one needs laws that hold at the beginning of time . |
| 7 | As we shall see , it is possible in the quantum theory for the ordinary laws of science to hold everywhere , including at the beginning of time : it is not necessary to postulate new laws for singularities , because there need not be any singularities in the quantum theory . |
| 8 | Blake said to his companion that he should take a last look at the hole in time , and their escape . |
| 9 | Closer editing would have improved this but at the cost of time . |
| 10 | They arrived at the airport with time to spare , and Fabia gently suggested that Cara might want to telephone their parents about Barney . |
| 11 | At the harvest of time : |
| 12 | Eager for information as I was , I was careful not to stare , looking at the roadside straight ahead , or at the sea from time to time . |
| 13 | In the book , Benjamin arrived at the church in time to stop the wedding and there was no further ‘ moral transgression ’ . |
| 14 | We arrived at the station in time but where was Tumbleweed ? |
| 15 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 16 | As a result , I had to make an expensive taxi journey to arrive at the meeting on time . |
| 17 | I arrived at the House in time to be greeted by the sight of Alan Clark , the maverick right wing MP for Plymouth Sutton , rushing out of Westminster Hall shouting at the top of his voice , ‘ She 's won , she 's won . ’ |
| 18 | Jesus said that God 's kingdom would come in the future , at the end of time , when all evil would be destroyed . |
| 19 | Future : Jesus who will come again at the end of time as King of Kings ; as Judge of the living and the dead ; and who will usher his faithful people into the Kingdom of his Father . |
| 20 | With its doublet parable of the dragnet , it tells of the time of final judgment when , at the end of time , the |
| 21 | The idea of the wedding was taken up by the early Church as an illustration of the glory of the coming of God 's kingdom at the end of time . |
| 22 | The other is that at the end of time there will only be the kings of Hearts , Spades , Diamonds , Clubs and England . |
| 23 | The apocalypse may have been postponed indefinitely , but there remains the assurance that it will eventually come , at the end of time ; and , in the meanwhile , there are rewards to be reaped in heaven . |
| 24 | God created the world , humans fell , in time He sent His Son Jesus Christ , who lived , died and rose again , and who will come at the end of time . |
| 25 | It will only be at the end of time that God 's glory will be fully visible in the church . |
| 26 | The seven which are relevant to Christ 's manhood are : belief in the Incarnation and Virgin birth ; that in Jesus God and man are united , begotten by God , born of Mary ; belief in " Cristes passion " that after Christ was taken down from the cross dead ( the deposition ) , he liberated those believers subject to death before he was born , a process known as the Harrowing of Hell ; that though he suffered mortality , he rose from the dead through the strength of God , and made this possible for all men ; that he ascended into heaven and was crowned higher than the angels ; that he will come at the end of time to judge the world and this will be the end of the era of redemption : These two sets of seven points about the Godhead and Christ delineate beliefs about the nature of life subject to a process of sickness and death but also filled with the potential for healing realised definitively in the life of Christ . |
| 27 | They can be gained at the expense of time spent on clients with other problems ( as will be seen in Chapter 4 ) or they can be derived from additional funding earmarked for the purpose . |
| 28 | Once , long ago , at the dawn of time , he had persuaded man to disobey in a garden . |
| 29 | Mr Kundra added : ‘ He stays at the flat from time to time — perhaps two or three times a year . ’ |
| 30 | Oh , her mother was good , she worshipped her grandchild , but sometimes Kate felt a twinge of guilt at the amount of time she herself spent away from Lizzy . |