Example sentences of "be at [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he disappointed her by saying he was checking whether it was possible for someone to go in and out unobserved , and how crowded it would be at that time of day . |
| 2 | But then you see the town was on er on er on D C. And they 'd be at that time they they were beginning to change over to A C , the whole country 's A C now . |
| 3 | ( i ) The public may leave at the end of the performance or exhibition by all exit doors and such doors must be at that time open . |
| 4 | Irrespective of the means provided to bring automatic roof vents and sprinkler systems into operations , automatic fire detection able to sense the presence of a smouldering fire may be important to reduce damage to some forms of goods if the premises are to be at any time unoccupied . |
| 5 | There 's a Danish proverb , you know , that states that fish and guests smell after three days and er we all know the visits which have begun so successfully from friends and relatives , it need n't be Christmas , it could be at any time of the year , which are often ruined by people lingering on well past their sell-by date . |
| 6 | ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth . |
| 7 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |
| 8 | Whoever could it be at this time of night ? |
| 9 | This pioneering , dangerous , and chemically intensive work was as significant as that on gold , most work on radium being at that time confined to the laboratory . |
| 10 | The plates have a long and illustrious history , being passed from print dealer to dealer and were at various times published by Watelet , Basan and Jean . |
| 11 | They were at all times called by their Yiddish names Bashelaya , Shinageetel , and Riffka . |
| 12 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |
| 13 | The case is made slightly untoward by the fact that both Mrs Cons-Boutboul and her former son-in-law were at one time barristers . |
| 14 | There were at one time a number of city-states , each with its own god . |
| 15 | One of the major functions of education must be to open people 's eyes to the fact that things were at one time different ; that they have evolved to where they are now ; and that they need not necessarily always remain as they are . |
| 16 | It seems that relations between the two men were at one time good , as on his tour of northern Italy in 1851 , Scott saw Ruskin in Venice , whom he had met previously , ‘ and spent a most delightful evening with him ’ . |
| 17 | The sciences were at one time supposed to generalize from observations by a logical operation called induction , claimed to free them from dependence on the merely analogical thinking which prevailed in the mediaeval proto-sciences , and which regrettably remain for the time being indispensable in dealing with everyday problems . |
| 18 | The texts in which Judas Thomas appears as Jesus 's twin were at one time widely used by Christian congregations , not only in Egypt and Syria , but also , as we shall see , as far away as Spain and , it seems , Ireland . |
| 19 | They resent the " off-comed-un " , the " bloody potoiler " , the " bloody hiker " , forgetting that no matter how far back their own roots go , they or their ancestors were at one time " foreigners " too . |
| 20 | These two half-villages were at one time in rivalry and even now , I noticed , each has its own war memorial even if the names carved on it are the same for both . |
| 21 | The high rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia among black people were at one time thought to be due to widespread misdiagnosis of bizarre behaviour and transient hallucinatory experiences by white psychiatrists unfamiliar with normal Afro-Caribbean cultural expressions of severe distress . |
| 22 | ‘ We were at one time , ’ said Doctor Lanyon . |
| 23 | Securicor were at one time synonymous with quality for they have paid to be synonymous with quality . |
| 24 | There were at one time , as the hon. Member for Ilford , South said , rumours that the TA could be cut to almost 55,000 or 50,000 . |
| 25 | The terms ‘ thesis ’ and ‘ dissertation ’ were at one time rather interchangeable , but now in the UK , the term ‘ thesis ’ is generally restricted to doctorate work , whereas master 's degree candidates write a ‘ dissertation ’ . |
| 26 | The more that public administration is called upon to solve problems that were at one time left to the market , the greater the contradiction — a point made by Habermas ( 1976 ) and Offe ( 1975 ) . |
| 27 | er , In spite of the fact that the Germanies were at one time united , it , it 's almost a culture shock I suppose . |
| 28 | It seemed that the appointments were at varying times , some quite early , others later in the day . |
| 29 | Rather more surprisingly perhaps , Sun and Star readers ( taken together ) were at that time split fairly evenly between Labour and Conservative with the Alliance a fairly close third . |
| 30 | I made my way to this celebrated establishment , and was very surprised to find an open salon ; we in Britain were at that time still cowering modestly in cubicles . |