Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] at a time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) . |
| 2 | In any event , you would do well to strive to avoid the uncertainty of a dispute about the legal effect of words said at a time when tempers flare . |
| 3 | Lijn 's desire to merge or melt the difference between the visual and aural senses came at a time when many artists were wishing to anticipate a more holistic view of art . |
| 4 | For she and the other natives of these isles lived at a time before sin , it seemed to him , a happy time , but inferior in intelligence and humanity to the enlightened ideals of his kind . |
| 5 | Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority . |
| 6 | So , as Forster points out , AMV has the cash resources to expand at a time when many target companies are temptingly priced . |
| 7 | Paintings of angels with guns appeared at a time when the religious orders were confronted with the stubborn persistence of pre-conquest religion amongst their Indian charges . |
| 8 | The disclosures come at a time when there are three known bids by senior civil servants to buy out part of the Crown Suppliers when it is privatised next year . |
| 9 | The encouraging figures come at a time when the number of young people in the county has dropped while the older population has increased . |
| 10 | This first annual review from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries comes at a time of ever-increasing activity , change and challenge within the work of the UK actuary . |
| 11 | You have attempted to schedule LIFESPAN RDBI to run at a time in the past . |
| 12 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 13 | Given this , it is impossible to avoid the idea that another part of the difference between the causal items and their effects is that the causal items exist at a time when their effects do not . |
| 14 | The electronic popular music of rock is so different in form and function from the old print-based pop of ‘ moon and June ’ , and so akin to the old pre-literate oral forms of folk music , that most of the assumptions made today about the relations between the two are misguided , based on theories devised at a time when the complete destruction of folk culture by the industrial state seemed only a matter of time . |
| 15 | Just the wee group of us , there 's different groups go at a time |
| 16 | The broking scandals came at a time when the Japanese government was already under pressure , both at home and abroad , to improve the supervision of its financial markets , to make insider trading illegal , and simultaneously to allow foreign institutions a greater degree of involvement in the domestic securities markets . |
| 17 | However , the proposals arise at a time when we are beginning to put in place the policy of care in the community , as enunciated in our White Paper ’ Caring for People ’ . |
| 18 | The reason for this is to prevent additional symptoms occurring at a time when you might be suffering from PMT . |
| 19 | Robins is clearly annoyed by the wages package at a time when the Sky Blues are making heavy losses . |
| 20 | My nightmares returned at a time when everything was crowding in on me and I could n't cope . |
| 21 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
| 22 | He was not a lady 's man in the accepted sense , rather he championed and encouraged single women to travel at a time when it was still considered bad form for a respectable young lady to take a shopping trip to London unchaperoned , let alone visit the Continent . |
| 23 | The strike by Boeing 's 57,000 employees in at least seven states comes at a time when airlines with ageing fleets are already straining to find aircraft for use on their new routes . |
| 24 | It is difficult for artists working at a time of crisis to achieve a rounded representation of reality . |
| 25 | The MHW decision on haemophiliacs comes at a time when Japan is beginning to accept AIDS as a national health problem . |