Example sentences of "at a time when [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | 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 . |
| 62 | At a time when dark thoughts of suicide continually crossed her mind , gossip columnist Nigel Dempster described her as ‘ a fiend and a monster . ’ |
| 63 | But at a time when incumbent leaders across the world are facing a recessionary backlash from their people , Mr Major can go out on to the international stage with enhanced authority . |
| 64 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 65 | The Labour government was elected at a time when Keynesian economics was moving towards being accepted as economic orthodoxy . |
| 66 | At a time when structural unemployment means that many — particularly the young — will be out of work for long periods of time , the old individualistic idea that ‘ all we need is a bit of enterprise and motivation ’ seems to get stronger the more inappropriate it becomes . |
| 67 | In the 1960s the number of pre-maritally conceived live births increased — not surprisingly at a time when sexual inhibitions were being cast off ( Bone 1986 ) . |
| 68 | Britain and France are forced to maintain real interest rates of six or seven per cent at a time when domestic conditions call for rates of one or two per cent . |
| 69 | The mill was built in 1771 by Richard Arkwright ( q.v. ) , at a time when growing discontent among textile workers was emerging as a threat to machinery , and the austere — not to say grim — building looks like a fortress , though the original mill has been much altered and extended . |
| 70 | Hence , at a time when growing numbers were seeking houses the capacity of the cities to cope was being tested . |
| 71 | Too many congressmen in both parties were reluctant to aid Soviet retraining at a time when growing numbers of US citizens were unemployed . |
| 72 | In practice , however , it cuts across a web of internationally-agreed tax rules at a time when growing co-operation among tax inspectors around the globe has made them ever more effective . |
| 73 | In his Preface to the Gardeners Dictionary , Miller invited communications on ‘ new experiments in relation to this art ’ and , at a time when scientific work was developing rapidly , this request alone would have attracted a large response . |
| 74 | At a time when scientific advance was seen as universally beneficial , the nuclear industry was judged to be at the cutting edge of technological endeavour . |
| 75 | But , in the later eighteenth century , the pamphleteers became government servants at a time when rising wheat and oil prices brought the graziers ' privileges and the accepted primacy of wool within the economy into question . |
| 76 | At a time when Affirmative Action is under fire and the Bush administration conveniently looks the other way while the ultra-conservative Supreme Court dismantles school desegregation to ensure that minorities stay and are educated in their place , the nineties look increasingly like being the decade of the black woman . |
| 77 | It 's no mean feat to keep a player like Hirst at a time when big clubs try to sign every class player that emerges . |
| 78 | Yet if it is not alarmed by this procedure , you may well be able to relieve the obstruction and so prevent the dog from choking at a time when rapid action is required . |
| 79 | At a time when Slow Play is beginning to become more and more of a scourge , it is also worth noting that the golfers needed just two hours and 45 minutes to go round , which included a break for as glass or two of Bollinger at the turn . |
| 80 | At present , some centres use photographic records to follow patients with clinically atypical naevi , on the assumptions that only lesions that show evidence of progressive change need to be excised and that such change can be clinically detected at a time when evolving melanomas are thin and curable by local excision . |
| 81 | At a time when English officialdom has been worrying about the fact that some among their top youngsters are playing more golf than is good for them , Stevely has had the same feelings where his own pupils are concerned . |
| 82 | Huxley was , after all , writing at a time when medical horizons were limited to digoxin for heart failure , morphine for pain and a handful of other remedies . |
| 83 | This at a time when British Agriculture is being cut back in margins and output . |
| 84 | Being used for draught work until quite recently , the French animals retained their size at a time when British cattle were deliberately bred smaller and more short-legged , and these bigger , muscular , fast-growing and later maturing French types now meet today 's demands for lean ‘ supermarket ’ meat cuts . |
| 85 | This was at a time when British opinion was becoming evenly divided over the pros and cons of seeking prominence on the global stage . |
| 86 | This seems highly unlikely at a time when high street stores are holding sales before Christmas . |
| 87 | National efficiency campaigners were particularly scathing in their critique of the ‘ provincial chapel-going radical ’ , who was seen to promote sectional and petty self-interest at a time when national survival was in question . |
| 88 | Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival . |
| 89 | At a time when national collections such as the National Gallery , London , are seeking to enlarge their holdings of Danish art from its golden age ( the early nineteenth century ) , a new gallery opened earlier this year in Weybridge , devoted exclusively to the art of Danish and other important Scandinavian artists of the nineteenth and twentieth century . |
| 90 | Neutralisation still had conservative connotations ; it would encourage the stabilisation of the political status quo in the country or region concerned and impose restraints on the unilateral pursuit of Soviet interests at a time when national liberation movements were achieving success with Soviet assistance . |