Example sentences of "at [adj] time or [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major infestation is almost certain to occur at some time or other , and you must then decide how to control or eradicate it . |
| 2 | After all , almost everyone would visit the latrine at some time or other , bringing with them a load of information concerning the course of the war . |
| 3 | The truth about customers is that most people who serve them see them , at some time or other , as enemies . |
| 4 | If you'se happen to be comin' here to Dublin at some time or other in the future — which praise the Lord you will be , for t is God 's own city — and you happen to be driving down O'Connell Street and you see me standin' here like dis , with me arms up ; then whether I 'm here or not , you stop . ’ |
| 5 | Not now you 'ave n't … even if you 'ad some before they dumped you in the Mersey , which I suppose you did 'ave … at some time or other like … . ’ |
| 6 | I should think that all of us have had the unfortunate experience at some time or other of sitting on a plastic interlocking chair in a draughty hall listening to some old wind bag droning on endlessly to screens of projected OHP transparencies that no one can clearly see . |
| 7 | Most practitioners undertake reviews of procedures at some time or other , whether they are procedures in the commonly accepted sense of the term , ie low-level processes or activities with a set order of steps ( Collins Standard Reference Dictionary ) , or the total activities of an organisation that combine to achieve the purpose of the business as a whole . |
| 8 | Additionally , almost all students make use at some time or other of one of the thirty or so departmental micro laboratories , with about 900 micro computers to choose from , ranging from standard BBCs to powerful SUN and Apollo workstations , and MS-DOS PCs of varying types to Apple Macintoshes . |
| 9 | Additionally , almost all students make use at some time or other of one of the thirty or so departmental micro laboratories , with about 900 micro computers to choose from , ranging from standard BBCs to powerful SUN and Apollo workstations , and from MS-DOS PCs of varying types to Apple Macintoshes . |
| 10 | What 's the point of loading the reel with an unbranded twist that ‘ looked right ’ , when you can be sure that at some time or other the varying tensions on this material are going to produce lively snarls and inevitably weaken it , so that a line break happens just when you least want it . |
| 11 | At some time or other we all think our systems can take that one extra fish , which in truth could be the straw breaking the camel 's back . |
| 12 | Did n't he ever write to your mother at some time or other ? ’ and she said , ‘ I … |
| 13 | The North Berwick line enjoys a spectacular claim to fame because it has at some time or other in its history been powered by every possible form of motive power ; horse , steam , diesel and electricity . |
| 14 | At some time or other the twin siren songs of forward and backward integration have led most large companies to do everything for themselves from manufacturing their own plant and spares , sometimes even as far as owning their own retail outlets . |
| 15 | Each had taken their cue , at some time or other , from the behaviours that were believed to be appropriate , and had developed to the point where they were thoroughly dysfunctional . |
| 16 | All men refuse to take responsibility for their actions at some time or other during their lives , and some men so consistently shirk their duty that they present more the appearance of overgrown children than of adults . |
| 17 | While 42 ( 69 per cent ) interviewees had worked at some time or other , the overwhelming majority ( 89 per cent ) were unemployed at the time of interview . |
| 18 | Many turned to war as a serious , full-time occupation , while others , constituting a large proportion of the lower nobility , saw military service at some time or other . |
| 19 | Very few of us go through life without needing to borrow money at some time or other . |
| 20 | They have two natural gaits the gentle , lolloping , forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other . |
| 21 | Many of us will have had the experience at some time or other of finding ourselves in classrooms ostensibly to help individual children overcome their difficulties , but realising that in fact the problems are more to do with the way the lesson is being presented , with the resources and teaching strategies being used or with the demands being made , than with any specific problems our pupils may have . |
| 22 | ‘ We all of us do that at some time or other . ’ |
| 23 | We have all been given golf tips at some time or other while playing , and some tips do work . |
| 24 | ‘ All the people who worked with Laura in those years experienced the rough edge of her humour at some time or other , usually when you were so run down and exhausted , after four or five days travelling with no proper sleep , that you could not fight back . ’ |
| 25 | In one sense it 's part of every man 's dream at some time or other — to make for the country and live off and in nature . |
| 26 | ‘ We all make mistakes at some time or other . |
| 27 | We had to pay er there was two lots of erm tyres , there was one set of buses were fitted with and another one with or I forget which it was there but I know those three were involved at some time or other and we used to record the mileage , send it off to them , showing what each bus ran during the month . |
| 28 | Around the the the shop so , obviously they 'd been either been casting brass , at some time or other . |
| 29 | McAllister did not quite know how to answer him , and said slowly , ‘ I suppose that at some time or other we all sell ourselves for something . ’ |
| 30 | At some time or other he would have to go out to these . |