Example sentences of "the time when [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they are still organized separately from social services , education welfare officers can sum up an area 's state of mind as well as help — or question — individual families , at least up to the time when centralized social work services are cut back . |
| 2 | This is the time when self-poisoning or self-injury are most likely . |
| 3 | Could it be that there was then more racism in the art world , and that Black artists were being squeezed out at just the time when young working-class artists from the British provinces were finding unprecedented and immediate public fortune ? |
| 4 | The exclusion of certain clergy is less easy to justify ( a relic of the time when religious disputes were at the heart of national affairs ) , as is the exclusion of 18- to 20-year-olds : when the voting age was lowered in 1969 , the age of eligibility for candidature was not . |
| 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 | All that came from the time when Central News was transmitted from Birmingham . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | In addition , a " Special Period in Times of Peace " plan had already been put into effect to cope with dwindling supplies from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and an " Option Zero " of extreme economic cutbacks and food rationing was in preparation for the time when Soviet oil shipments finally ceased . |
| 9 | Thieves probably benefited from a certain popular tolerance which dated back to the time when individual thefts of cattle were a legitimate means of pursuing a dispute . |
| 10 | I 'm very angry about all this and believe it 's long past the time when serious questions must be asked about this form of recruitment ’ . |
| 11 | From the time when endoscopic examination was started , 100% penetrance has been the rule . |
| 12 | Earlier marriage meant a great increase in teenage births in the 1960s , up to the time when average age at marriage increased ( after 1972 ) , when legitimate births to teenagers began to fall as well . |
| 13 | For years , this has been the time when small bands of mushroom pickers wander through the forests . |
| 14 | The second is the time taken from the moment a record is requested by the program to the time when accessing and transfer takes place , known as wait time or queue time . |
| 15 | American and British firms built fat integrated bureaucracies at just the time when Japanese firms were arriving in international competition with their lean , mean communities of interest . |
| 16 | Many go back more than a decade — to about the time when massive asbestosis judgments first started to trigger claims against insurance policies written in the 1950s . |
| 17 | There was , presumably , a sound evolutionary reason for the fact that no one had yet designed a lavatory in which the occupant faced away from the door , some relic of the time when primitive man was most at risk when at stool , but it did mean that the lavatory user was finely tuned to the approach of strangers . |
| 18 | This was just about the time when pale ales from Burton were starting to grow in popularity . |
| 19 | This comment was made in the early 1980s , around the time when sociolinguistic methods were undergoing some changes . |
| 20 | Altogether , in his connections and his habits of thought , he was a bishop of the old school , of the time when secular and ecclesiastical affairs were totally intertwined . |
| 21 | It was pressed at the time when Red Rhino were having their well documented financial troubles . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , adolescence is the time when ego-identity development inevitably dominates the personal development of the individual for a while . |
| 23 | Work was therefore concentrated on preparing full-scale calculations ‘ for the time when fast computing machines become available ’ — a sentence which recurs in the theoretical reports of this period ’ ( 1946–1948 ) . |
| 24 | In a prehistoric population in North America the time when marked tooth decay ( dental caries ) set in has been pinpointed to around 1150 AD . |
| 25 | ‘ From the time when British was Best , ’ I replied . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It was built at the time when local builders possessed that magic formula for rightness of scale . |
| 29 | According to Benington ( 1976 ) , this was the time when local government became ‘ big business ’ . |
| 30 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |