Example sentences of "at [art] [noun] when [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem highly unlikely , except at the times when falling piece rates forced them to , that domestic workers averaged such hours through the week , although they must have worked them on some days , if only to make up for slacker work early in the week . |
| 2 | MOTOR RACING : Bicester-based racing car builders Reynard tightened their grip on the Japanese Formula 3000 championship at the weekend when Brazilian Paolo Carcasci won the second round at Fuji Raceway in a 92D model . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | This transition in the comparator output is used to generate the position detector pulse [ Fig. 7.12/1 ) ] , which occurs at the time when winding C should be switched on and therefore can be used directly as a step command . |
| 6 | The dinosaurs probably lost the race against time , having already lost bipedality and vestigial hands at the time when mammalian-type warm-bloodedness would almost certainly have guaranteed their survival into perpetuity . |
| 7 | It was pressed at the time when Red Rhino were having their well documented financial troubles . |
| 8 | Now where the marshes of Kelfazin may be I do not know , but at the time when El-ahrairah and his followers were living there , of all the dreary places in the world they were the dreariest . |
| 9 | It was built at the time when local builders possessed that magic formula for rightness of scale . |
| 10 | The example of Alain Robbe-Grillet , who acknowledges a debt to Joyce as well as to Sartre and Gide , offered from the late 1950s onwards a renewed incentive to experiment , at a moment when British writers might have felt themselves particularly distanced from modernism . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | AT a time when sectarian murder gangs are running rampant , it seems churlish to decline any offer of political assistance from abroad . |
| 13 | At a time when skilful economic leadership will be needed to manage a variety of financial and other difficulties , and when international economic stability is most desirable , the biggest industrial countries seem ready to engage in trade war . |
| 14 | The relationship between the two is not necessarily straightforward ; for example , penal rhetoric might be predominantly positivistic at a time when actual penal practice is predominantly classicistic and deterrent . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The withdrawal of most full-time students ' entitlement to those benefits took place at a time when substantial additional resources were being made available to students through the education system . |
| 17 | At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania . |
| 18 | At a time when Western governments have proved slow to inject cash into the countries of the former Eastern block , the activities of cultural organisations and foundations such as the Getty Grant Program and the Soros projects are providing a lifeline for the artists and academics of the region . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although Haslam 's lack of experience was no real handicap at a time when inspired amateurism prevailed , he did not face an easy task . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And despite the fact that he is unveiling his Cicciolina-inspired work at a time when sexually-adventurous artists are regularly harassed , progressive museum directors arrested on obscenity charges , and an increasing number of independent films slapped with the dreaded X-rating — a proven box-office poison — Koons says he is not worried about achieving his goals . |
| 23 | In a more commonplace example , it does not take much imagination to see how old people may see their contribution to society as substantially diminished and their dependence increased , at a time when technological advances present an older generation with a succession of mysteries related to daily living . |
| 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 | Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers . |
| 26 | At a time when professional astronomers keep the sky under closer scrutiny than ever before , Alcock 's world-beating achievements rank him with great observers of the past , such as the famous French comet hunter Charles Messier . |
| 27 | He arrived at a time when converging philosophical , political , scientific , and economic influences had inspired a number of English landowners to transform their estates into prosperous miniature centres for civilized living . |
| 28 | Local political diversity was almost absent at a time when central control was at its slackest . |
| 29 | In British conditions , electric heating seemed a natural complementary heating source at a time when central heating with individual room control was virtually unknown . |
| 30 | His 1939 journey took place at a time when anti-British sentiments were beginning to reach Hadhramaut from Cairo and there was increasing criticism of the privileges of sayyid rulers . |