Example sentences of "at a time when [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT a time when sectarian murder gangs are running rampant , it seems churlish to decline any offer of political assistance from abroad . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although Haslam 's lack of experience was no real handicap at a time when inspired amateurism prevailed , he did not face an easy task . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Local political diversity was almost absent at a time when central control was at its slackest . |
| 8 | In British conditions , electric heating seemed a natural complementary heating source at a time when central heating with individual room control was virtually unknown . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At Waddington , Tim Taylor has organised an exhibition of maquettes and drawings by Henry Moore ( 3 June-4 July ) at a time when international interest in his work appears to be reviving , with current exhibitions taking place in Sydney and in the Garden of the Bagatelles in Paris . |
| 15 | Both countries have , however , moved sharply into recession at a time when economic growth in Japan , Germany and France has remained strong . |
| 16 | The consumer boom was fuelled not just by the falling savings ratio at a time when economic growth allowed incomes to rise strongly , but also by ( a ) tax cuts , especially in the budgets of 1987 and 1988 and ( b ) readily available credit — particularly in the aftermath of the deregulation of the City in 1986 , known as Big Bang . |
| 17 | The return of socialism would be the ‘ road to nowhere , a dead end ’ at a time when economic recovery was around the corner . |
| 18 | Importantly their chapter offers a defence of the role of educational studies in addressing fundamental educational problems and issues , and of the need to sustain independent enquiry at a time when official pressure concentrates on the technical and utilitarian aspects of schooling . |
| 19 | It offered a semi-rural idyll to the most urbanized nation in the world , at a time when rural life was rapidly shrinking . |
| 20 | Consequently , the highest rates of unemployment occur in the inner urban areas — in some cases almost 40 per cent at a time when general unemployment levels , according to the official figures , are about 6 per cent . |
| 21 | They illustrate that , at a time when long-term unemployment is spiralling , it does not pay to make mistakes . |
| 22 | In the 1980s , aggregate Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) has been roughly static , and per capita GDP has been falling at a time when net aid flows have been rising . |
| 23 | Robert King 's series of concerts and workshops are proving invaluable at a time when authentic performance , a long time in its coming to these northern parts , is fast developing its own passionate audience . |
| 24 | Thus Goldthorpe and Lockwood ( 1969 ) carried out their research among the manual workers of Luton at a time when academic opinion was saying that such people were beginning to take on middle-class characteristics . |
| 25 | The Labour government was elected at a time when Keynesian economics was moving towards being accepted as economic orthodoxy . |
| 26 | At a time when structural unemployment means that many — particularly the young — will be out of work for long periods of time , the old individualistic idea that ‘ all we need is a bit of enterprise and motivation ’ seems to get stronger the more inappropriate it becomes . |
| 27 | The mill was built in 1771 by Richard Arkwright ( q.v. ) , at a time when growing discontent among textile workers was emerging as a threat to machinery , and the austere — not to say grim — building looks like a fortress , though the original mill has been much altered and extended . |
| 28 | In practice , however , it cuts across a web of internationally-agreed tax rules at a time when growing co-operation among tax inspectors around the globe has made them ever more effective . |
| 29 | In his Preface to the Gardeners Dictionary , Miller invited communications on ‘ new experiments in relation to this art ’ and , at a time when scientific work was developing rapidly , this request alone would have attracted a large response . |
| 30 | At a time when scientific advance was seen as universally beneficial , the nuclear industry was judged to be at the cutting edge of technological endeavour . |