Example sentences of "at a [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 2 | A mother insists on her small son 's going to bed at a certain time , in spite of all his protests , because she knows he needs enough sleep to keep healthy and alert ; but in his view , she is insisting that he gives up his happy play , cutting him off from the rest of the family , for no good reason . |
| 3 | Sergeants and Inspectors know almost exactly where an officer can be found at a certain time , and woe betide the constable who keeps his superior officer waiting . |
| 4 | At a certain time he would drive past that house , as he did every second day , and the position of his driver 's window , fully up , half-lowered or fully down , would convey to the watcher the thing he needed to know . |
| 5 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 6 | So yes the answer to the question is yes there is a budget there is a budget and we need to do things now one of the problems could be the budget is n't sufficient to cover all that needs doing so I think you 'll find that the building been built at a certain time there a comes a time you 've got plan a maintenance programme which we have things need to be done . |
| 7 | Of the many drawbacks the most ludicrous is that applications can be made only once a year at a certain time . |
| 8 | By that I do not mean simply that Christianity arose at a certain time in history . |
| 9 | You had to be in at a certain time you know , you had very standard cuisine , it was , it had become if you like , ridiculed in jokes and things of this nature . |
| 10 | The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there . |
| 11 | To come somewhere like this would have been better , somewhere where I had to be in at a certain time , where I could n't have certain people come in . |
| 12 | We had to put the babies down at a certain time and leave them — it was horrible . |
| 13 | This is a preliminary timetable resolution which requires the vote to be put on certain clauses at a certain time , irrespective of whether all the amendments to the clause or to previous clauses have been discussed . |
| 14 | As every girl has her own individual subjects , the teaching is on a one-to-one basis , and each has cards showing her particular set work which has to be in at a certain time . |
| 15 | Sets of boundary conditions that tell us the state of some regions of the universe at a certain time and what effects propagate into it subsequently from the rest of the universe . |
| 16 | Consider , for example , a particle that is at a point A at a certain time . |
| 17 | Even if the proved debt did not include the right to interest , interest can be claimed , up to the date of the bankruptcy order in the following cases : ( i ) in respect of a debt due by virtue of a written instrument payable at a certain time , interest may be claimed from that time ( r 6.113(2) ) at judgment rate ( r 6.113(4) ) ; ( ii ) otherwise , after demand for repayment has been made stating that interest will thereafter be charged ( r 6.113(3) ) then at the rate specified in the notice provided that it does not exceed judgment rate and is only from the date of the demand ( r 6.113(4) ) . |
| 18 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
| 19 | to the managing director , who was available at a certain time . |
| 20 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |
| 21 | You know , I feel that is left , left angina , because I 've got to rip the brassiere off at a certain time of the day |
| 22 | If a public sector organisation says that it will do something at a certain time , the customer wants that to happen . |
| 23 | By close analysis , he was virtually able to predict where bream would be at a certain time and could put bait in to hold them in his swim . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the SeHCAT value corresponds to a seven day elimination of bile acids , whereas the concentration of 7α-hydroxy-4-cholesten-3-one only reflects the synthesis at a certain time . |
| 25 | he is stating the play 's premise : that at a certain time and place , existence could be based on immoral , infected , cynical and sour values . |
| 26 | At a certain place , at a certain time , under certain conditions , things will occur . |
| 27 | ‘ Why do n't you go home anyway , and I 'll tell Gesner he must report to your house at a certain time . |
| 28 | but we obviously have to cut off at a certain time to er get the accounts and audited in time . |
| 29 | We usually got one back saying they 'd been accepted and they 'd deal with them at a certain time you know . |
| 30 | Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ? |