Example sentences of "in a [noun] when [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , we can wri , I 'll put it in a minute when this tape 's finished . |
| 2 | In a year when all other parts of the charitable sector have been hit by the drop in disposable income , environmental charities have gone from strength to strength . |
| 3 | In a year when many other small car makers were struggling ( and some failing ) , TVR went from strength to strength with a sensational new car and a brand new engine ’ |
| 4 | While sales revenues dropped to IR£273.6 million ( 1991 : IR£292.1 million ) , overall volume substantially held up , a creditable performance in a year when most of the Group 's major markets were in recession Financing costs at IR£7.7 million ( 1991 : IR£6.5 million ) reflect higher average debt over the period The taxation charge at IR£2 million was lower than the previous year due to lower profits in high tax jurisdictions . |
| 5 | JOHN MELLENCAMP had to cancel tour dates for the second time in a month when bass player Toby Meyers was injured in a boating accident in Saratoga , New York . |
| 6 | But in the meantime , in a week when Irish singles appear to have been released by the crateload , the ‘ Uncertain ’ EP is the real trophy . |
| 7 | And in a week when European unity is in the spotlight , Sir Claus told the conference at Bruges in Belgium : ‘ We remain , sad to say , probably the most divisive society in advanced Europe . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In a week when English football went crashing … |
| 10 | The answer is never in doubt , and neatly topical in a week when American voters showed their preference for small-town boys over city slickers . |
| 11 | If this assumption is incorrect , if the structure of the model is in fact dependent upon the policies being carried out , then a model of the economy estimated in a period when one set of policies , one policy regime , was in operation will give misleading advice about what to expect under a different policy regime . |
| 12 | Yet the general position had improved enough for the government to proceed to its second level campaign — the creation of nation-wide cultural uniformity through mass education as the chief instrument of modernization in a period when technical means and financial resources were not as yet adequate for fast modernization through industrialization . |
| 13 | These new initiatives take time , energy and effort — in a period when all three are in short supply — but if heads are to manage LMS successfully , correct relationships based on openness , honesty and mutual respect must be established at the earliest possible moment . |
| 14 | In a period when all other popular newspapers gained substantial readers , the Herald lost over 700,000 copies in sales . |
| 15 | But there were , inevitably , in a period when municipal provision was subject to restraint , problems about the achievement of the social services support that would match the NHS devolution . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Through her Cambridge years and long afterwards she simply accepted them as evidence of Esther 's eccentricity and originality — and it was not , after all , difficult to be original in a period when most female undergraduates , fresh from school and far from well off , ventured little further in terms of home-making than a cushion or a chianti bottle , a photograph or a teddy bear , a gingham frill round an orange box or a postcard collage on the wall , a modernist paper mobile or an arrangement of seaside pebbles . |
| 18 | Much of the distribution of population was built up in a period when British industry enjoyed competitive supremacy in international trade . |
| 19 | He was able to read ( in a time when many nobles were happily illiterate ) and noted for his skill at reading aloud and singing to the harp . |
| 20 | Tough , fit , not in the least prone to injury and highly consistent in his performances , Cross was the epitome of the ideal player , and he was versatile too , in a time when this was not really expected of a footballer , for he moved across to right-back after the signing of Scotsman Bobby Orr , who much preferred to play at number three , in 1927 . |