Example sentences of "a time when [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Both countries have , however , moved sharply into recession at a time when economic growth in Japan , Germany and France has remained strong .
2 The consumer boom was fuelled not just by the falling savings ratio at a time when economic growth allowed incomes to rise strongly , but also by ( a ) tax cuts , especially in the budgets of 1987 and 1988 and ( b ) readily available credit — particularly in the aftermath of the deregulation of the City in 1986 , known as Big Bang .
3 The return of socialism would be the ‘ road to nowhere , a dead end ’ at a time when economic recovery was around the corner .
4 At Waddington , Tim Taylor has organised an exhibition of maquettes and drawings by Henry Moore ( 3 June-4 July ) at a time when international interest in his work appears to be reviving , with current exhibitions taking place in Sydney and in the Garden of the Bagatelles in Paris .
5 It 's hip hop at its birth , it 's DJ Kool Hero , ‘ Apache ’ by The Incredible Bongo Band , subway trains with Smurfs on the side , fat laces , quick cuts and the almost mythical impression of New York at a time when black music gave birth to what remains its hardest and most vital creation .
6 This was , after all , a time when black youth movies were Beat Street or Krush Groove , ie about as street as West Side Story .
7 It offered a semi-rural idyll to the most urbanized nation in the world , at a time when rural life was rapidly shrinking .
8 Without the foreign currency to service their debts , countries like Ghana , Ivory Coast , Gabon and Senegal face ruin , at a time when IMF-imposed austerity programmes appear to be stimulating social disorder throughout the region .
9 The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan .
10 The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan .
11 Yet at a time when decisive action against the Nazis might still have been effective the Swiss Carl Burckhardt made very few decisions at all .
12 I have never known a time when central Government have interfered so much in the day-to-day running of the town halls .
13 In British conditions , electric heating seemed a natural complementary heating source at a time when central heating with individual room control was virtually unknown .
14 Local political diversity was almost absent at a time when central control was at its slackest .
15 During the mid-1950s , at a time when continental drift was not seriously considered by most earth scientists , new evidence in the form of palaeomagnetic data from rocks again began to bring into question the notion of stationary continents .
16 Bacon and Eltis noted that public sector employment increased by some 26% , from 5.8 million workers to 7.3 million between 1960 and 1978 , a time when total employment was largely unchanged .
17 That was still a time when serious writing was impossible , so I began to translate , mainly English , American and German novels and short story collections .
18 At a time when middle class hippies , flower power , student mysticism and love-ins were getting the attention of the media , the working class youths of the skinhead movement adopted an aggressive form of behaviour , in keeping with the tough uniforms of their boots and braces .
19 It seems providential at a time when good news and dreams are in short supply : 430 unknown drawings by Amedeo Modigliani from his eight crucial years in Paris ( 1906–14 ) , which will be published by Noel Alexandre in September .
20 There was a time when planned obsolescence was capitalism 's dirty little secret — now it has become a selling point .
21 In the 1980s , aggregate Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) has been roughly static , and per capita GDP has been falling at a time when net aid flows have been rising .
22 Consequently , the highest rates of unemployment occur in the inner urban areas — in some cases almost 40 per cent at a time when general unemployment levels , according to the official figures , are about 6 per cent .
23 AT a time when sectarian murder gangs are running rampant , it seems churlish to decline any offer of political assistance from abroad .
24 Both would appear increasingly outmoded at a time when technological innovation was presented as indispensable to the modernization of the economy , ‘ the computerization of society ’ .
25 Robert King 's series of concerts and workshops are proving invaluable at a time when authentic performance , a long time in its coming to these northern parts , is fast developing its own passionate audience .
26 Importantly their chapter offers a defence of the role of educational studies in addressing fundamental educational problems and issues , and of the need to sustain independent enquiry at a time when official pressure concentrates on the technical and utilitarian aspects of schooling .
27 They illustrate that , at a time when long-term unemployment is spiralling , it does not pay to make mistakes .
28 Although Haslam 's lack of experience was no real handicap at a time when inspired amateurism prevailed , he did not face an easy task .
29 The DoH may have to redraft the guidelines , and even if the legal difficulties are overcome the guidelines may not appear for another two to three weeks — a frustrating delay for professionals at a time when social worker are increasingly being blamed by the public for failing to control young people in care .
30 Elizabeth was in an unenviable position : here she was , at the age of 36 , with young children on her hands and no husband to provide the necessities of life , at a time when Social Security was undreamt of and the country was in the grip of an economic crisis .
  Next page