Example sentences of "at the [noun] when [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the size of the motion-picture audience it was inevitable that political authorities would become involved in some regulation of the industry even if it was only to be a question of safety and fire regulations , but what made the movies even more into a public issue was that they became a mass activity precisely at the moment when political parties and social agencies were more concerned than ever before with how the masses could be accommodated within cities . |
| 2 | There was a strong case for saving Thoresby for the nation , but unfortunately its future came into question just at the moment when all thoughts were focused on Brodsworth , near Doncaster , another Victorian house with an even more complete set of contents . |
| 3 | At the time when radical feminists were advocating ‘ androgyny ’ , and designers like Coco Chanel were ‘ masculinising ’ women 's fashions , the art world countered by presenting a woman who was ‘ emancipated ’ but ‘ feminine ’ and in a class by herself . ’ |
| 4 | At the time when most women , so a solitary book from the library had informed her , began to experience sickness , Rachaela stopped . |
| 5 | At the time when both troupes were staying together at the English Girls ' Club in Paris , although the Johns were convinced there was a rule that they should not mix , it never entered the others ' heads . |
| 6 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 7 | At the time when these minutes were recorded the island was the property of the Campbells of Calder to whom it had been granted by Royal charter in 1621 for an annual payment of 9000 merks Scots , or about £500 sterling , to the Crown . |
| 8 | It is surely no coincidence that plays dealing with homosexuality and abortion were shown on BBC at the time when these issues were to be debated in the House of Commons and the Press ’ . |
| 9 | He relied upon the fact that the evidence of Price , although ( if accepted ) it implicated the applicant in the commission of the relevant offences , did not provide any evidence that the applicant was himself in Sweden at the time when those offences were committed . |
| 10 | At the time when those measures were being skilfully and carefully introduced , we were also carrying through a whole range of highly necessary reforming legislation . |
| 11 | It was built at the time when local builders possessed that magic formula for rightness of scale . |