Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a particular time " in BNC.

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1 We recommend that future project initiatives of this kind should give much more thought to the structures and procedures , both within project schools and at the level of overall planning and coordination which are required to ensure that initiatives are not confined to a particular time period or grant , and that the inservice implications of good practice resulting from the project are capitalised upon .
2 A bank can not predict which of its customers wish to withdraw or deposit money on any given day ; a travel firm can not control which of its package tours will be booked at a particular time .
3 Its format is usually standard , though much of the information collected and reported at a particular time may not be relevant to current development issues .
4 I would prefer , at the risk of offending the purists , to take a robust attitude , and simply say that it is a decision made at a particular time in response to a particular situation against a particular political background , and is poor material on which to build any general proposition .
5 In order to have a sense of how the different codes are used in interactions , it is necessary for the linguist to be quite clear about which code is being used at a particular time .
6 There is no necessary link between tense and time ; it is likely in this instance that the use of the present tense is not restricted to a particular time ( which is the time of the utterance ) but refers rather to a " general " present .
7 It is useful for would-be choreographers to study the historical development of classical style so that they may stage a ballet in a traditional way when it has a story firmly linked to a particular time and place .
8 The starting position is that of eligibility set at a particular time .
9 Secondly , research can link present and future states in a way that maybe difficult to comprehend when we are deeply involved at a particular time .
10 Once the parties had been heard , the master or registrar would have the power either to make an ‘ unless ’ order , that is that the case would be struck out unless particular steps were taken within a particular time , or the case would be set down for trial .
11 Having given an opportunity to the parties to be heard , the master or district judge will be able to make an ‘ unless ’ order to the effect that the case be struck out unless particular steps are taken within a particular time , or will be able to set the case down for trial .
12 Their responses affect the habits of nectar-seeking insects and the type of pollen that is being spread at a particular time of day .
13 It is not satisfactory where a significant separate item of loss is incurred at a particular time .
14 One of the drawbacks of A level is that because it is an examination to be taken at a particular time , namely after two years of study in the sixth form ( there are exceptions to this , but such is the general rule ) it is taken by people who are at very different stages of development , of readiness for the examination , and , above all , of interest in the subject matter .
15 It is not sufficient for social psychologists merely to define attitudes in terms of a stance taken at a particular time , with the assumption that such a stance has a fixity , which is only to be shifted by the reception of ‘ persuasive information ’ .
16 One significant difference is when an ‘ illness ’ has a starting date , or when the decline in energy or function can be pinpointed to a particular time .
17 The predictions will thus not be accurate in the sense that the severeness of the symptoms can be predicted for a particular time , but they will be statistically accurate .
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