Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He predicted that the course record was likely to be broken with a time inside one hour and 50 minutes . |
| 2 | People aim at achievements to be completed in a time process and talk about how they order their priorities accordingly . |
| 3 | Broadly the period 1951–87 can be divided into four parts : 1951–64 , a period of comparatively little social policy innovation which may be regarded as a time of consolidation or stagnation , according to one 's political viewpoint ; 1964–74 , a period of fairly intense policy change stimulated by both political parties , in which considerable difficulties were experienced in translating aspirations into practice ; 1974–78 , a period in which rapid inflation and government by the Labour party without a parliamentary majority administered a severe shock to the political and social system , and to all who believed that there was still a need for developments in social policy ; and 1979–87 , when much more explicitly anti-welfare state Conservative administrations reinforced that shock by deliberately treating inflation as more deserving of its attention than unemployment , attacking public services which were seen as inhibiting economic recovery and seeking ways to ‘ privatize ’ public services . |
| 4 | The sessions can be arranged at a time and place suitable to your drivers . |
| 5 | Education is often the first to be squeezed at a time of cuts . |
| 6 | Secondly when potential actinomycin binding sites are in close proximity ( for example in GCGC ) only one of the potential sites can be occupied at a time . |
| 7 | This analysis is complicated by the overlap between these two sites meaning that only one GC can be occupied at a time . |
| 8 | He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) . |
| 9 | However , in order to be used successfully , pointing must be carefully co-ordinated with the child 's vocalisations and her direction of gaze and be performed at a time when the adult is attending to the child ( Lock 1980a ) . |
| 10 | Only one type of operation may be performed at a time . |
| 11 | For each package , the user can either ACCEPT or REJECT the SSR , however only one type of operation can be performed at a time . |
| 12 | Design services will also be performed on a time and materials basis by STB engineering consultants . |
| 13 | Design services will also be performed on a time and materials basis by Sparc Technology engineering consultants . |
| 14 | Procedure c ) will require about one hour for each unit of work and it is anticipated that up to three units will be requested at a time . |
| 15 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |
| 16 | Instead , they emphasized that the detailed cement sequences revealed by CL could be used as a time framework upon which to locate other diagenetic events , providing a complete ‘ diagenetic stratigraphy ’ . |
| 17 | I take note of what my Hon. Friend says : it is a great pity if any parish church has to be locked at a time when members of the public may wish to enter it . |
| 18 | They seem to be locked in a time warp but this has become their biggest selling point because , by remaining stubbornly unlike every other manufacturer , their instruments can not fail to be distinctive . |
| 19 | They come in a variety of sizes as do the internal filters , but a much wider choice of filtering mediums is available and more than one can be employed at a time . |
| 20 | Typically a multi-speaker recognition system , the only sort that is going to be acceptable to users , will allow between 20 and 30 words to be recognised at a time with a success rate of around 85 to 90% . |
| 21 | Having achieved a degree of fertility , the calves will then be born at a time of reduction in nutritional inputs , and also at the outset of a housing period with all its attendant disease factors . |
| 22 | His father had thought it would be a good idea to ask for the boats to be blessed at a time when Whitby Harbour was crowded with the big Scottish fleet which was following the herring as they moved south . |
| 23 | In these rebellions , the main grievances voiced were fiscal , although it is not certain how far the taxation itself was the real cause of discontent and how far merely the last straw which could not be borne in a time when land was becoming scarce and real wages were in decline [ A.1 ] . |
| 24 | The ribber connecting arm can only hold one yarn , so only one colour can be knitted at a time . |
| 25 | The use of Masai in broadcasts should be introduced for a time but should not , he said , become ‘ a permanent privilege ’ . |
| 26 | when each state is complex , and so only one state can be remembered at a time . |
| 27 | If the special needs that arise from these states of dependency are met fully and promptly then the problems will be kept to a minimum and on balance old age will be experienced as a time of contentment . |
| 28 | ( 5 ) It will be helpful if the announcement of the offer can coincide with positive public relations coverage for the offeror. ( 6 ) Ideally , a bid should not be announced at a time when it will have a reduced impact ( eg on a day which is expected to be dominated by other major financial news or company announcements ) . |
| 29 | I repeat that there is no need for any school budget in Northumberland to be cut at a time when its overall expenditure can increase by 5.4 per cent . |
| 30 | A deposit will not be required but our fees will be charged on a time basis at [ say , 150 ] % of our standard mergers and acquisitions rate . |