Example sentences of "[noun pl] at [art] [noun] when the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another aspect of the disregard for the feelings of the unemployed was the reduction in the number of mainstream staff in DSS offices at a time when the number of claimants was rising . |
| 2 | But the meeting will also be seen as a further strengthening of Anglo-Irish ties at a time when the governments in London and Dublin are trying to start new talks aimed at finding a political solution in Ulster . |
| 3 | There was little hope for political enlightenment in the provinces at a time when the number of literary centres and of those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to in 1921 . |
| 4 | But the accepted value of the solar radius , 959–63 seconds of arc , is based on 19th-century observations , and became enshrined in the text books at a time when the Sun was close to a minimum of the 76-year cycle . |
| 5 | All this is in marked contrast to the US , where , ironically , anti-insider dealing legislation was first put onto the statute books at a time when the universal banking model was being abandoned there because it was considered too risky . |
| 6 | For example , one can calculate the probability that the universe is expanding at nearly the same rate in all different directions at a time when the density of the universe has its present value . |
| 7 | The document expressed great concern that Wilson had been strongly pro-Israel when prime minister from 1964–70 and that his return to office would sour relations with the Arabs at a time when the international oil crisis was acute . |
| 8 | He staged a counter-attack which brought him back into power in 1769 , but at the price of a financial disaster from which he never recovered ; money was borrowed to buy shares with which to create votes for the election of directors at a time when the value of the Company 's stock collapsed . |
| 9 | This is consistent with observations of Schulles et al on fetal sheep in which gastrin has been detected in the gastric juices at a time when the intragastric acidity is low . |
| 10 | The five death sentences , delivered on June 27 , had provoked protests at a time when the Tunisian government was already countering accusations of illegal detentions and torture in its May-June crackdown against the Nahda movement [ see p. 38215 ] . |
| 11 | Between 1980/81 and 1982/83 the freezing of university places at a time when the cohort of 18-year-olds was increasing led to an increase in entry standards as measured by average A-level performance . |
| 12 | It will be essential for the Scottish Secretary to convince the Treasury that council reform will not lead to extra costs at a time when the Government is anxious to reduce public expenditure and its borrowing debts . |
| 13 | It is particularly significant that none of his many critical comments on the book from that period suggest any mixed feelings at the time when the book was actually being planned and written . |
| 14 | During the nineteenth century , the cattle of Friesland in particular were being selected locally for black-and-white pied coats at a time when the cattle of other provinces were of various colours and types . |
| 15 | Such a move would , they said , impose severe hardship and very great practical problems at a time when the families had more than enough distress to cope with . |
| 16 | Chapter 2 should help him keep a firm eye on the educational objectives at a time when the technical challenge will tend to dominate his thoughts . |
| 17 | Security forces have to deal with two fronts at a time when the threat of IRA bombings is ever present . |
| 18 | The purpose of the writer 's research ( Tweddell , 1988 ) was to examine practices in arts INSET for serving teachers at a time when the government 's intention to develop a coherent programme of INSET through GRIST was being initiated ( at Easter ) 1987 and to find out how the arts were faring in an educational climate which many observers were declaring inimical to the arts . |
| 19 | The greatest problem for the historian of late medieval population in England is that he has no reliable figure for the number of inhabitants at the time when the plague struck the country first . |
| 20 | It introduces inflexibility and excessive bureaucratic controls at a time when the industry needs to be able to develop along economic lines . |
| 21 | Their auditors came across alleged irregularities at a time when the Division Two outfit is already expected to make a loss of £120,000 for the season . |
| 22 | Their misfortune was to have to defend its economic achievements at a time when the long-predicted recovery from recession has not begun . |
| 23 | Visitors are also transported back to 1905 and the ‘ International Tramway and Light Railway ’ trade show which was held in that year to show the range of equipment on offer to operators and would-be operators at a time when the electric tramcar was looked upon as the wonder of the age . |
| 24 | She believes it would be politically inept to cut such training programmes at a time when the jobless total is rising fast and will soon top three million . |
| 25 | This was due to the impossibility of conveying such goods between the two cities at a time when the railways could not cope with grain supplies coming into Saratov . |
| 26 | A 100 million investment programme over three years has illus ; been announced , with a major programme of efficiency and productivity improvements at a time when the market has shown sharp and sudden decline . |
| 27 | The duty of determining such questions is cast by law , not upon the courts after the event , but upon the police authorities at the time when the decision has to be taken ; and a court which attempted to review such a decision from the point of view of its wisdom or prudence would ( I think ) be exceeding its proper functions . |
| 28 | She was a clever woman with obscure sources of energy who would suddenly start to garden by torchlight late at night , or walk wilfully all the way to Soho to buy vegetables at the times when the pin in her hipbone was especially painful . |
| 29 | Some say that hunting in old burned-over sites when the oak leaves first appear is a good and fruitful strategy , but others insist that morels are best collected in old apple orchards at the time when the lilacs bloom . |
| 30 | The clientele made a perfect captive audience and in the early autumn of Paula 's second year at the store the management decided to bring in models to show the new season 's fashions at the times when the restaurant was most likely to be full of ladies who had accounts with Jenkinsons and cheque books in their capacious handbags . |