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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The starting position is that of eligibility set at a particular time .
6 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 .
7 Their responses affect the habits of nectar-seeking insects and the type of pollen that is being spread at a particular time of day .
8 It is not satisfactory where a significant separate item of loss is incurred at a particular time .
9 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 .
10 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 ’ .
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