Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] a [noun] when the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Mann took up the post of organist and choir master at Beverley at a time when the music at the Minster was at a fairly low ebb . |
| 2 | But even if we discover that vineyards vanished from south east England at a time when the climate was getting colder , we still do not know for sure why they disappeared . |
| 3 | The incident has angered senior party officials who are fighting to retain Conservative-held seats in Scotland at a time when the Scottish Nationalist bandwagon is gathering pace . |
| 4 | The Reformation came to Slovenia and Croatia at a time when the Turkish threat was at its height . |
| 5 | What is puzzling is why the United States should hand such a diplomatic prize to China at a time when the original strategic basis of the friendship , mutual hostility to the Soviet Union , seems more tenuous than ever . |
| 6 | The £48,000 order for coats and jackets has been won by Orde at a time when the Japanese economy is in deep recession , and competition from other countries is intense . |
| 7 | Trudgill 's informants grew up in Norwich at a time when the city was expanding to accommodate many incomers from surrounding localities and from London : the resulting linguistic situation may well have been characterised by diffuse norms which allowed " outsiders " , including those born in Norwich to parents from elsewhere , to " get away with " an imperfect knowledge of the Norwich dialect . |