Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] when [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Independent , still at 45p , has put on sales this week , but circulation manager Brian Hutt said they were not as high as he would have normally expected in a week when many people were returning from holiday . |
| 2 | The monarch stood at the top of a pyramid of aristocracy in a period when most people still assumed society must be run by élites . |
| 3 | ON A DAY when many people are wondering how to make a few bob out of water , somebody else showed how to make millions , in the worst possible City fashion . |
| 4 | Jonjo O'Neil says racing on Sunday is a much better idea than racing on a Monday when most people are at work . |
| 5 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 6 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |
| 7 | AT a time when many people contemplate slowing down , 49-year-old Eric Saunders has stepped on the gas , enjoying life in the fast lane as a hot rod racer . |
| 8 | Asked if he accepted Mr Hume 's word , Mr Trimble replied : ‘ I think a very serious question-mark — I am sorry to say — has to be placed against Mr Hume 's motives , because he is persisting in talking to republican paramilitaries at a time when other people are anxious to see positive dialogue taking place . ’ |
| 9 | Because of problems with disparate styles of music , however , an occasional Sunday afternoon service is held at a time when white people who are committed to this kind of outreach are free to attend . |
| 10 | At a time when important people wore swords as a matter of course , the assumption that the strong ruled the weak was natural enough . |
| 11 | Hannah 's film was transmitted at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday , 30 January 1973 , to an audience approaching five million — a very respectable rating for a documentary shown at a time when most people are either retiring for the night or thinking about it . |