Example sentences of "at the [adj] time in " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 6 | The trend towards milder winters is beginning to concern horticulturists. many trees need lengthy cold spells if they are to open their buds at the right time in spring , and research on the Continent confirms that apple trees will be confused by the changing climate . |
| 7 | Yet on the other hand , for the counsellor to be too conscious of saying the right thing at the right time in every situation represents a state of mind that can only hamper the counselling process . |
| 8 | Good advertising communicates the right message to the right people at the right time in a way that will interest or amuse them , but above all make them want to buy the product , service , or even " idea " . |
| 9 | He was fortunate in that he had the right doctor at the right time in the right so hospital |
| 10 | At the only time in his life when he would have liked to he was so crushed by doubt and diffidence that he kept his eyes scrupulously trained upon the ground , or the table in front of him , or the wall behind the shoulder of the person concerned . |
| 11 | ‘ My husband was a very good poet , as you know , but he was unlucky , one of those people who are always in the wrong place at the wrong time in his career . |
| 12 | Israeli sources said a second Syrian MiG-23 landed at the same time in Egypt , near Alexandria . |
| 13 | As a clue to that significance we might first recall the way in which the laws regarding menstruation and childbirth and this new circumcision appeared at the same time in the history of the Jewish people , and remember what was earlier said about the nature — culture dichotomy and the need of culture to control or impose itself upon what it deems to be nature . |
| 14 | I am no farmer , or perhaps I could understand how wheat and potatoes can be grown at the same time in Ireland . |
| 15 | She would rely on his discretion , and perhaps at the same time in some speechless way on his support . |
| 16 | There is also plenty of water for the shoals to be feeding at the same time in widely separated places . |
| 17 | Thromboxane production by platelets stimulated with arachidonic acid showed a significant positive correlation with the fasting plasma glucose concentration obtained at the same time in a group of 15 diabetics studied by Halushka et al ( 1981 b ) . |
| 18 | One important role of such units , is that they provide a safe environment for mentally disturbed people , at the same time in severe cases , protecting members of the community from possible harm as a result of violence to persons or property . |
| 19 | Round hands As has been suggested in the last section , secretary and humanistic italic , both cursive hands , were being used at the same time in England for all kinds of general and vernacular purposes . |
| 20 | These levels of breeding success were very similar to those found at the same time in the London area and Leicestershire . |
| 21 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 22 | At the same time in England a similar union of king and Church was maintained by Edgar , by Ethelred the Unready when he was his own master , and by Cnut . |
| 23 | In applying the requirements of the [ draft ] FRS capital instruments which are issued at the same time in a composite transaction should be considered together . |
| 24 | It 's an extremely useful accessory if you 're working on more than one job at the same time in different places , so that the tools you need are always with you — and it 's invaluable for working from ladders or scaffolding . |
| 25 | As a codicil to this I should tell you that at the same time in another part of the camp , the National Union of Miners were holding some sort of conference themselves . |
| 26 | Equally plainly , he could not before 1990 have been in an anti-Thatcherite minority in the Thatcher Cabinet and at the same time in full accord with the lady herself . |
| 27 | Such as the fact that it is not really possible to have two adjacent needles tucking at the same time in any part of the pattern . |
| 28 | Would you really have ‘ Voulez Vous ’ over The Specials ' ‘ Gangsters ’ , or Chic 's ‘ Good Times ’ , both out at the same time in 1979 ? |
| 29 | A somewhat similar note was being struck at the same time in Scotland by the lay theologian Thomas Erskine of Linlathen ( 1788–1870 ) . |
| 30 | Lantern slides of each image were made , and projected at the same time in register on a screen . |