Example sentences of "[vb pp] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 2 | The Epson system referred to was designed at a time when it was more appropriate to use proprietary Epson upgrades . |
| 3 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 4 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 5 | Secondly when potential actinomycin binding sites are in close proximity ( for example in GCGC ) only one of the potential sites can be occupied at a time . |
| 6 | This analysis is complicated by the overlap between these two sites meaning that only one GC can be occupied at a time . |
| 7 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
| 8 | Education is often the first to be squeezed at a time of cuts . |
| 9 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 10 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 11 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 12 | ITN 's cash problems have come at a time when news is more in demand than ever |
| 13 | We are naturally disappointed that substantial catastrophe losses have come at a time when the pace of our underlying recovery is accelerating , but we are confident that the improvement in our performance is soundly based and will continue to show through as strong management action proves increasingly effective . ’ |
| 14 | The disappointing results of this survey come at a time when the second WHO review of its Health for All policy concludes that ‘ the implementation of strategies to achieve those aims has in many cases slowed down ’ . |
| 15 | The charges included his acceptance of a commission following the completion of SOMISA 's purchase , at well above market prices , of new offices which were then lavishly decorated at a time when the state company 's workforce was being dramatically reduced in preparation for its privatization in 1992 [ see p. 38527 ] . |
| 16 | These roles were pursued at a time when the ideas , language , and values underpinning social care were changing rapidly and when resource constraints were worsening . |
| 17 | Functional groups were designated by suffixes ( prefixes were not required , because only one functional group was considered at a time ) . |
| 18 | There are recognized ways of doing things that ensure that the job gets done at a time when we are probably incapable of thinking things through carefully . |
| 19 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 20 | For a start , though it 's called ‘ single-frame ’ , two frames are often shot at a time , for economy . |
| 21 | Considering that this was written at a time when Pound 's reputation was eclipsed as Eliot 's rose towards the zenith , the generosity of this essay , its lack of rancour , is admirable . |
| 22 | Of course this famous pamphlet was a much more practical political publication than The German Ideology and it was written at a time of tremendous political ferment . |
| 23 | The FAO report , written at a time of negligible ecological awareness in fisheries management , suggested that populations of dolphins and fish-eating birds should be reduced to raise the fisheries potential of the region . |
| 24 | This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world . |
| 25 | ‘ Schubert Dip ’ , Ian tells me , was written at a time of innocence , frivolity and irresponsibility . |
| 26 | The standpoint of Coburn 's story was an extrapolation of machine intelligence , written at a time when computers were only just beginning to encroach into the commercial environment of Britain . |
| 27 | It is true that the writing-up of a thesis may be its author 's first , and most difficult , exercise in scientific communication , and it is written at a time when the author may be scientifically immature , and lacking the communication skills which will develop later . |
| 28 | For works written at a time when Beethoven was still in his middle period , the lyricism in the works is extraordinary . |
| 29 | The observational data was collected at a time when the men went in pairs , but they expressed concern over how this latest development worked against effective community policing : |
| 30 | Most of her boyfriends have been collected at a time of crisis in their lives , lame ducks , my father calls them , who tend to move on when they have reorganised their existence , not wanting to be taken over . |