Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 . |
| 2 | These Councils , and another four formed later , continue to operate at the present time as autonomous bodies with their own presidents officers and delegates . |
| 3 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 4 | It is however a controversial project because of the cost of its electricity and the question as to whether it is needed at the present time despite electricity being the main growth area in the Brazilian energy demand picture . |
| 5 | Yet it is inevitable that at the present time of confusion and reform we ask why we should be dependent upon these two great blocks of examinations , at these two particular points in a student 's school career . |
| 6 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 7 | There is a growing belief that payment by results schemes or reward linked to achievement of goals is an unleashing factor and it certainly appears at the present time to be working that way . |
| 8 | There seems to be far more scope at the present time for the two generations to become friends . |
| 9 | Overall the computational complexity of the system rules it out at the present time for application to the recognition task . |
| 10 | Erm we perceive no need at the present time for such an exception and the borough council seem to have accepted that . |
| 11 | At the same time these results are likely to be slow , and if we are right in our conclusion that we are faced at the present time with a certain amount of abnormal employment of a quasi-permanent character , then it is not sufficient to solely rely on the gradual improvement of productive efficiency . |
| 12 | Thirdly there have been studies of geomorphological processes affected by human activity and particularly important stimuli were produced by Wolman ( 1967a ) who suggested the way in which sediment yield varied at the present time between urban and non-urban areas and extended this to provide a model of change of sediment yield in the northeast of the USA since 1700 , and also by Douglas ( 1969 ) . |
| 13 | other than in that respect it would erm it would reduce representation to mem members I would say by about forty percent at the present time before structures etcetera etcetera were sorted out . |
| 14 | They have come to their agreement , they have done their job well , and they have produced and excellent education system and the blip which he is talking about is one which is forced on us at the present time by a Conservative Government , who has decided that there is going to be no further expansion in the school service which we 're providing , and indeed is imposing upon us cuts which are going to mean that we reduce those services , and to argue that from a point of view that it 's a considered piece of policy from a Government which if I has introduced , if I may say , Poll Tax , an economy which is a disaster area , exports in nothing happening there , inflation |
| 15 | Similar displacements occurred and Africans were confined to reserves in Kenya , or to tribal trust lands in Zimbabwe ( Southern Rhodesia ) and at the present time in the Bantustans by the Republic of South Africa . |
| 16 | The various experiments taking place at the present time in the use of graded tests ( for example in the Borough of Croydon ) tend to show that this form of examination would , in all kinds of ways , be preferable to the system we have . |
| 17 | The Cleveland Inquiry ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) noted that : ‘ It has been impossible from the evidence provided to the Inquiry to arrive at any consensus or to obtain any reliable figures of the general prevalence of sexual abuse of children in the country or in Clevelend ’ ( p.4 ) and later comments that : ‘ We are strongly of the opinion that great caution should be exercised at the present time in accepting percentages as to the prevalence and incidence of sexual abuse . |
| 18 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 19 | He proved how difficult this feat is by failing to repeat it at the second time of asking . |
| 20 | Under the Mental Health Act 1959 patients maintained on guardianship orders knew that drug treatment could be enforced and therefore appeared regularly for depot injection on the right day and at the right time without pressure or demur . |
| 21 | Earlier that year he had met a merchant from London who had money to spare and was looking for a likely speculation and Harry , being in the right place at the right time for once , had sold him the idea of investing in a privateering cruise to the Americas . |
| 22 | Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me . |
| 23 | Erm the pressures in the E C at the moment , I think , would be better handled if as nations come , en democratically , economically , erm they come into the E C , not perhaps at the right time for those that are inside , because that might be too late frankly , but but they 're not pushed into the E C en bloc , too early . |
| 24 | In life , the right man to love hardly ever comes at the right time for loving . |
| 25 | Their rooms at the Royal Albion Hotel were just a few doors from each other and it was Ken 's job to see that she always had her mug of cocoa before going to bed — and indeed that she was warmly tucked up at the right time for a lady of her years and responsibilities . |
| 26 | ( i ) to secure that the right land is available at the right time for the implementation of national , regional and local plans : |
| 27 | Basler have a knack of being in the right place at the right time for acquiring military disposals , their ramp is currently full for former Canadian Armed Forces Daks , awaiting their turn for conversion . |
| 28 | They 're the people who press all the buttons to make sure that Central 's programmes , commercials and trailers are in the right place at the right time for you to watch . |
| 29 | We work with about 60 women a year , and I know many of them would genuinely say that at the start they were unemployable , that they could have gone back to drugs , ended up back in prison , but they did n't because Clean Break was there at the right time for them , to give them the opportunities they needed . |
| 30 | THE recovery in the housing market has come just at the right time for CALA , the Scottish house-builder , which saw interim losses nearly double to £2.85 million . |