Example sentences of "at the very time " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 2 | Beneath it all lay Khrushchev 's hostility to the ‘ cult of personality ’ , declared at the twentieth Congress and afterwards at the very time that Mao 's personality cult was endowing him with almost divine status . |
| 3 | It must have been at the very time of the proceedings against Myln that the archbishop of St Andrews received the earl of Argyll 's answers to his letter of admonition of 31 March 1558 , in which he warned the earl of the dangers of his support for Protestantism . |
| 4 | She was with him , also , at the very time his career began to take off and this , with her own hopes for fame as an actress , can be the cause of unintentional jealousy . |
| 5 | At the very time this highly specialised library of books on the cotton industry was being dispersed , without even being checked against the holdings of the British Library — the book here listed is not to be found in their catalogue — the New Mills Heritage Centre was trying to put together a collection of books which would be of use to students visiting what had been , among other achievements , the home of the British calico printing industry . |
| 6 | For at the very time he was sitting alone in the house , in the early hours of the morning of the funeral day , reading again his father 's will , the most modern ship in the world , the SS Titanic , was going down stern first , with all its lights blazing into the icy waters of the North Atlantic . |
| 7 | And yet we often find that examinations take place at the very time of year when there is most likelihood of a heatwave . |
| 8 | The images of youth arose from a society in which the middle class was reviving its claim to political and cultural leadership at the very time when it was being challenged by the new class politics . |
| 9 | In the closing years of the nineteenth century , just as the eastern Germans were leaving the land and deserting the east , at the very time that the Polish population of the border districts was on the rise , the theoretical and practical policies of both the Polenpolitik and the Kulturkampf were hardening around the drive towards industrial and imperial expansion — if not overseas , which was almost impossible — then in the eastern borderlands . |
| 10 | A good idea is to attach stickers announcing when the last change was made : otherwise , you can be running a clapped-out tube at the very time it 's most needed . |
| 11 | At the very time when householders were facing high mortgage repayments and declining house prices , the government introduced reforms to the local taxation system which imposed additional financial burdens on many people . |
| 12 | ‘ Do you know that he also saved my life at the very time we met ? ’ |
| 13 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 14 | That bill was given , as Ardkinglas explained , ‘ at the very time the Bell was Ringing for the Election , by which I carryed my Election by two Votes ’ . |
| 15 | At the very time that Parliament was debating the garotters , there had been a public sensation when The Liverpool Mercury exposed an eye-witness account of a brutal navy flogging on HMS Majestic in which it was alleged that the officer-in-charge had taken considerable pleasure from the proceedings . |
| 16 | At the very time when the former was achieving a settled status , their values were being attacked by radicals , libertarians and libertines . |
| 17 | There is no doubt that the removal of the child by this mother was done precipitately at the very time when the child 's future care was already under consideration by the Ontario court . |
| 18 | Whether this clamour is loud enough to bring about so fundamental a change in the EEC at the very time when Community institutions wish to move in the opposite direction is a question which needs now to be addressed . |
| 19 | Does the Minister recall the vandalism of the former Secretary of State for the Environment , his right hon. Friend the Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) , who , at the very time that the White Paper was issued , turned down the inspectors ' recommendation for a tunnel under Oxleas wood ? |
| 20 | The " Baltic path " to emancipation — the landless variant — was discredited at the very time disagreements over the way forward were at their height . |
| 21 | This unforeseen situation developed at the very time when local authorities were also facing the problems of reorganisation and of the introduction of structure planning . |
| 22 | In December 1915 , at the very time Falkenhayn was submitting his Memorandum , he was writing to his father about the possibility of a separate peace with England or Russia , ‘ if we do not want our fatherland to keep on fighting until complete exhaustion ’ . |