Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] at [art] time when " in BNC.
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1 | This occurred at a time when the militancy of rank-and-file officers increased . |
2 | This occurred at a time when the Government support in the opinion polls was at one of its lowest ebbs and seemed a desperate attempt to create an atmosphere in which opposition to the Poll Tax became synonymous with criminality . |
3 | This occurred at a time when the future of the Harwell Laboratory , AEA 's main research establishment , had come under review . |
4 | It was ironic that 1989 saw the centenary celebration of the Fabian Essays of Webb , Shaw , and their comrades ; this came at a time when Britain seemed in more complete reaction against the imperatives of Fabian rationalism than at any time for a century . |
5 | This came at a time when all Latin American countries had adopted policies of export-orientated growth , economic liberalization , financial deregulation and the dismantling of investment restrictions and trade barriers . |
6 | This came at a time when several years of large oil-revenue increases had created an exceptionally propitious atmosphere for reaching some kind of understanding . |
7 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
8 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
9 | ‘ I wonder how long we are prepared to vacillate at a time when Britain , and all that Britain stands for , and human civilization , are in peril ? ’ |
10 | This comes at a time when some Western governments are questioning the standard hard-line attitude always taken by British and American leaders and certainly in West Germany there is a growing feeling towards more direct contact with Moscow and less reliance on America 's nuclear stockpile . |
11 | Paradoxically , this comes at a time when both the Conservative Government and the police themselves are much more cautious about the potential contribution of policing . |
12 | This comes at a time when staff contracts are changing . |
13 | This comes at a time when many advanced economies are undergoing profound structural change , with technological change , the growth in importance of the service sector and the growing internationalisation of production . |
14 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
15 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
16 | These ‘ drawings ’ may well have influenced both Dada and Surrealism as they were first published at a time when André Breton was championing automatism and mediumism . |
17 | Military conscription has always been a useful way of soaking up young people and even though Russia is suffering from a decline in the birthrate the sudden release of a large number of men on to the civilian labour market might be difficult to absorb at a time when Gorbachev is trying to raise productivity . |