Example sentences of "at a time when [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 .
2 AT a time when sectarian murder gangs are running rampant , it seems churlish to decline any offer of political assistance from abroad .
3 At a time when middle class hippies , flower power , student mysticism and love-ins were getting the attention of the media , the working class youths of the skinhead movement adopted an aggressive form of behaviour , in keeping with the tough uniforms of their boots and braces .
4 At a time when Western Europe was enjoying the first benefits of industrial society , trade with the west was actually stultifying social progress and the development of industry in Poland and Prussia , and particularly in backward Pomerania .
5 At a time when Western governments have proved slow to inject cash into the countries of the former Eastern block , the activities of cultural organisations and foundations such as the Getty Grant Program and the Soros projects are providing a lifeline for the artists and academics of the region .
6 Yet at a time when decisive action against the Nazis might still have been effective the Swiss Carl Burckhardt made very few decisions at all .
7 Although Haslam 's lack of experience was no real handicap at a time when inspired amateurism prevailed , he did not face an easy task .
8 Without the foreign currency to service their debts , countries like Ghana , Ivory Coast , Gabon and Senegal face ruin , at a time when IMF-imposed austerity programmes appear to be stimulating social disorder throughout the region .
9 And despite the fact that he is unveiling his Cicciolina-inspired work at a time when sexually-adventurous artists are regularly harassed , progressive museum directors arrested on obscenity charges , and an increasing number of independent films slapped with the dreaded X-rating — a proven box-office poison — Koons says he is not worried about achieving his goals .
10 Both would appear increasingly outmoded at a time when technological innovation was presented as indispensable to the modernization of the economy , ‘ the computerization of society ’ .
11 In a more commonplace example , it does not take much imagination to see how old people may see their contribution to society as substantially diminished and their dependence increased , at a time when technological advances present an older generation with a succession of mysteries related to daily living .
12 Chapman took over at Leeds at a time when professional footballers were beginning to assert themselves as an organized body of workers .
13 At a time when professional astronomers keep the sky under closer scrutiny than ever before , Alcock 's world-beating achievements rank him with great observers of the past , such as the famous French comet hunter Charles Messier .
14 Local political diversity was almost absent at a time when central control was at its slackest .
15 In British conditions , electric heating seemed a natural complementary heating source at a time when central heating with individual room control was virtually unknown .
16 His 1939 journey took place at a time when anti-British sentiments were beginning to reach Hadhramaut from Cairo and there was increasing criticism of the privileges of sayyid rulers .
17 The research comes at a time when serious questions are being asked about the use of advertising and public relations by the government , and when the media , too , are the subject of considerable scrutiny .
18 It seems providential at a time when good news and dreams are in short supply : 430 unknown drawings by Amedeo Modigliani from his eight crucial years in Paris ( 1906–14 ) , which will be published by Noel Alexandre in September .
19 It 's hip hop at its birth , it 's DJ Kool Hero , ‘ Apache ’ by The Incredible Bongo Band , subway trains with Smurfs on the side , fat laces , quick cuts and the almost mythical impression of New York at a time when black music gave birth to what remains its hardest and most vital creation .
20 At a time when political parties could n't get twenty people in a room , we had to hold overflow meetings everywhere we went , ’ recalls Priestley , ‘ I do n't think we were ineffectual .
21 His notion of a European intellectual and cultural order , for example , was being asserted at a time when political events began to destroy the illusion of a common European identity .
22 This litany served to keep alive in French Christian memory the true place of the king as Christ 's representative on earth , at a time when political realities bade fair to obliterate it ; but it also elevated the lower ranks of earthly powers .
23 At a time when diplomatic relations between the West and Iran were looking so much better , how could they be so stupid ?
24 The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan .
25 The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan .
26 At a time when vast tracts were unsettled , it was all too easy for governments to be profligate .
27 As with a number of similar literary-based projects around in Hollywood at a time when mainstream studios were trying to discover what to do next after the demise of musical and religious epics , it was not a success .
28 Established birth control and resulting low fertility permitted a unique advance in marriage at a time when married women were not yet committed to the work-force .
29 During the mid-1950s , at a time when continental drift was not seriously considered by most earth scientists , new evidence in the form of palaeomagnetic data from rocks again began to bring into question the notion of stationary continents .
30 Between 1960 and 1981 , London lost 51 per cent of its manufacturing jobs , and the major conurbations 43 per cent , at a time when small towns lost only 1 per cent and rural areas actually gained 24 per cent .
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