Example sentences of "[noun] came at a time when " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) . |
| 2 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 3 | The decision came at a time when 1,500,000 besieged refugees in the city of Asmara , the last government stronghold in Eritrea , faced imminent death by starvation . |
| 4 | The dog attacks in England came at a time when the government were losing their grip — becoming very unpopular . |
| 5 | Lijn 's desire to merge or melt the difference between the visual and aural senses came at a time when many artists were wishing to anticipate a more holistic view of art . |
| 6 | His moment came at a time when shoring up the old seemed all that mattered or all that anyone could think of . |
| 7 | The meeting came at a time when relations between the two countries were unusually strained . |
| 8 | Ironically this change in public opinion came at a time when Arab terrorists were letting off bombs in Paris , which French people thought quite terrible . |
| 9 | This kind of move came at a time when Tetley 's , along with other arms of Allied Breweries , espoused and encouraged a culture of well-informed and caring in-house designers . |
| 10 | The seminar came at a time when the contribution of women in the Church promised to become an increasingly important part of the decision-making process in the life of the Church ’ , the editorial continued . |
| 11 | Moves to demonstrate the government 's seriousness came at a time when the UN was due to release a report on the effects of the embargo on the Jordanian economy . |
| 12 | The broking scandals came at a time when the Japanese government was already under pressure , both at home and abroad , to improve the supervision of its financial markets , to make insider trading illegal , and simultaneously to allow foreign institutions a greater degree of involvement in the domestic securities markets . |
| 13 | The scandal came at a time when the government was already riding low in the polls because of the social and economic effects of its economic deregulation policies [ see p. 38524 ] . |
| 14 | The ruling came at a time when Indians throughout Canada were asserting their rights to vast areas of land . |
| 15 | For Perez de Cuellar , this incident came at a time when he was still closely involved with other business , notably engineering the release of hostages held in Lebanon and Israel . |
| 16 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
| 17 | His death came at a time when the movement was split over whether to join in the negotiations or to maintain its principles and risk being marginalized . |