Example sentences of "[vb base] at times " in BNC.

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1 The artefacts found within cremation vessels were generally ignored and appear at times to conflict with the dates ascribed ( Morris 1974 ; Kidd 1976 ; Dickinson 1978 ; Richards 1987 ) .
2 However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world .
3 The edible species grow at times of high predation as epiphytes on the less palatable .
4 I imagine at times the Carter pair sitting in the studio thinking , ‘ What have we done to deserve this ? ’
5 The methods that she uses erm , and I think this needs to be done well before a disaster , unfortunately so often people only react at times like this and I think it 's such a pity that they do n't do it beforehand , but it 's working on basic assertiveness skills , communications skills like giving a language for feelings , erm building up support for each other , plus the creative work — getting things down
6 Previous chapters have described a number of initiatives which manage at times to combine these psychological and feminist interests .
7 Local information offices , open at times when visitors are around , could supply this , along with information about local accommodation .
8 The embarrassing scenes he makes in New York 's suburban streets and supermarkets seem at times more real than the enormities of his nightmare past .
9 Ed had doubts about Dee — he was a bit , kind of , uncool at times — just like Dee to carry on climbing when everyone else knew it was boring .
10 This is easiest at places which allow schools access at times exclusively for educational visits , or where some special space can be set aside where a group can work undisturbed .
11 Coexistence is reinforced by nomadism and migration , but the diets overlap at times of both high and low fruit availability .
12 She adds : ‘ Even if you feel at times that you ca n't face the extra work in the kitchen that Christmas seems to involve , it 's worth making the extra effort once a year .
13 Derelict buildings , old workings , dams and hushes scar the land and everywhere there are the cones of spoil heaps that stretch acre upon acre in some places , so that you feel at times that you could be standing on the surface of the moon .
14 I remember ringing Campbell McAlpine , to whom I turn at times of crisis .
15 Mind you Chappie has made us all laugh at times , and Deane looks as limited to me in a different way .
16 What is important to realize is that for Yeats certainly , and I think at times for Pound also , the only alternative open was a sorry second best .
17 I think at times he found his own handsomeness an awful burden : people just would n't let him alone .
18 I think at times the national health service has been exploited , you know , oh er I am no going out today , I 'm no feeling well .
19 them thing wasted I mean , I do n't know , ha got danger damage in the back of his head I think at times
20 We do at times use ‘ belief in ’ language to mean something similar to ‘ belief that ’ — as in ‘ I believe in ghosts ’ , which surely includes the idea , ‘ I believe that there is some evidence ghosts exist ’ .
21 Some severely neglected children do at times actually value a cuff , a blow or a kick .
22 These categories do at times seem a little artificial , and can become contentious .
23 True , the police do at times breach the rules laid down by the law .
24 There are holy wells all over Ireland and they do at times attract strange practices , ’ he said .
25 You wonder at times if anything is straightforward in Bob 's world : does he find popping down the shops for a loaf of bread an emotionally distressing experience ?
26 ‘ With Catterick Garrison in North Yorkshire being such an important base it 's hardly surprising they want so much land , but I really wonder at times whether they need so much ? ’
27 The Order of Things , although in many ways Foucault 's most influential work , remains , however , an oddity in certain respects : first , that in arguing for an a priori common to a ( limited ) number of knowledges , Foucault at times seems to be advocating a structural key between different levels within the episteme , thus restoring the form of the essential section so criticized by Althusser .
28 Moreover , in the stress on the pluralism of institutions and practices that organise sexuality , he goes further towards a neo-functionalism , and Foucault at times seems in danger of meeting up , as Nicos Poulantzas has put it , ‘ with an old tradition of Anglo-Saxon sociology and political science , running from functionalism to institutionalism — from Parsons , to Merton , Dahl , Lasswell , and Etzioni — a tradition in which the centre of analysis is shifted from the state towards the ‘ pluralism of micropowers ’ . ’
29 Neighbouring freshwater wells have become unusable , and the smells from the vandalised creek , at times flowing in multi-coloured currents with dyes from the chemical treatments , have at times been so pungent that inhabitants of the area along the banks of the Yellow Creek have been awakened from their sleep at nights with extreme nausea and vomiting .
30 As a consequence the struggle for Palestine has been carried out on many levels , creating a complexity which even the participants have at times found difficult to follow .
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