Example sentences of "become [adj] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 2 | And so it was actually becoming dangerous at the same time . |
| 3 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 4 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 5 | If more than one guard becomes ready at the same time , the choice of which one to execute is nondeterministic ( there is no left-to-right precedence rule as with IF ) . |
| 6 | It 's an opportunity for the company to become efficient at the same time , to have new life injected into it , to bring on and develop talented younger people who might otherwise become stifled and consequently up and go . |