Example sentences of "which [be] at time " in BNC.

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1 It is when understanding , compromise and trust in sexual matters are lacking in a marriage that the sexual problems which are at times inevitable assume their largest proportions .
2 But these are all secondary to the flow of talk , which is at times brilliant and , rather less often , impossibly pretentious .
3 But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person .
4 What seems to have fascinated Picasso about Cézanne 's figure studies and portraits , besides his obvious interest in their structural formal properties , is the complete disregard of details , which is at times extended even to a disregard of the individual features of the face .
5 It remains the case that for much of our constitutional history the Cabinet and its forerunners were never greatly liked by Parliament which was at times bitterly hostile to it and tried to stamp it out .
6 At the same time , under the general conditions of this best-known of all forms of patronage , certain less specific forms of professional organization in the arts were often present , at a different stage : evidently in the master and apprentice system which was at times similar to that in a wider area of skills and crafts ( see pages 58ff below ) .
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