Example sentences of "at a [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 2 | but we obviously have to cut off at a certain time to er get the accounts and audited in time . |
| 3 | You know , I feel that is left , left angina , because I 've got to rip the brassiere off at a certain time of the day |
| 4 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 5 | By that I do not mean simply that Christianity arose at a certain time in history . |
| 6 | And the announcement of the engagement could not have come at a better time for the battle-weary Royal Family . |
| 7 | League Cup success could n't have come at a better time for Rangers , nor for that matter could the return to goalscoring form of Ally McCoist . |
| 8 | League Cup success could n't have come at a better time for Rangers , nor for that matter could the return to goalscoring form of Ally McCoist . |
| 9 | That 's his first for the club and could n't have come at a better time for Hereford , though . |
| 10 | And it could n't have come at a better time for the 29 year old bowler in this his benefit season . |
| 11 | Whatever the truth , the unwelcome publicity could not come at a worse time for Mercedes — just as it is launching its new top-of-the-range ‘ S ’ model after 12 years of development . |
| 12 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 13 | Newspaper reports on 12th March that the Bank of Ireland is to shed 600 of its staff over the coming years could not come at a worse time for the economy . |
| 14 | Her discovery in Paris could n't have happened at a worse time from that point of view , and she would just have to accept it . |
| 15 | As a result , they are normally very tired during weekdays when they are compelled to wake at a normal time for work . |
| 16 | ‘ Paula 's welfare is paramount so I am not making waves with the Hutchinsons at a traumatic time like this but obviously I 'm extremely anxious , ’ he said . |
| 17 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 18 | Both meetings came at an important time in Russia 's relationship with the rest of the world and at a critical time for world peace and stability . |
| 19 | In 1948 , he was appointed to the St Mungo ( Notman ) chair of pathology in the University of Glasgow and consultant pathologist to Glasgow Royal Infirmary , where he spent six happy and productive years — at a critical time for the NHS — before accepting the invitation to the chair of pathology in Edinburgh . |
| 20 | The message comes at a critical time for the Government 's flagship education policy , which critics claim has lost its momentum because schools are worried about public spending cuts . |
| 21 | The ambition was to surround the youth with ‘ continued influence for good ’ at a critical time of his life : ‘ We try to make him feel that there is no part of his life that is beyond the range of God 's love , and that everything should be done in God 's sight . ’ |
| 22 | The adoption of such policies at a critical time in forest resource use averted what politicians like President Theodore Roosevelt described as a potential timber famine . |
| 23 | Finally , at a sad time for Rosamund and myself , our sincerest thanks to so many rugby friends who have extended , through kind words and deeds , their sympathies to us on the tragic death , after a short illness , of our daughter Charlotte . |
| 24 | In Webb the employer was allowed to put forward an explanation , which was accepted as being gender-neutral , that an employee was needed at a specific time to be trained and to cover for a period of maternity leave with the probability of being retained as a permanent employee . |
| 25 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 26 | Both glans and prepuce are covered by stratified squamous epithelium , and separation occurs at a variable time from before birth to several years afterwards by desquamation . |
| 27 | Well , the answers to that of course are very complicated , but they all became interested or anxious at a similar time about the problems of extreme poverty . |
| 28 | ‘ This year there are a lot of students who have not yet got training places — significantly more than at a similar time in previous years , ’ Mr Pritchard said , adding that the Law Society was considering various ways of helping those unable to find a training places with a law firm . |
| 29 | The refusal was associated with another decision by Seaton Valley UDC to allow Leech to make representations at a suitable time in the future when overall development was being considered . |
| 30 | It was not created at a good time for ballet music and these scores are relentlessly trivial . |