Example sentences of "[being] [vb pp] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | This relatively low figure no doubt results from the programme being broadcast at a time that is inconvenient to many viewers . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Is not the real problem facing many TECs the fact that their funds are being cut at a time of recession and rapidly rising unemployment ? |
| 4 | Being the prevailing wind did not make a storm less stormy ; having bubonic plague during a Black Death which affected half the world did not make it less painful ; being overindebted at a time when cultural change had made it fashionable neither excused it nor mitigated it . |
| 5 | CRUCIBLE , Channel 4 's answer to Horizon , is being scotched at a time when the new TV channel is capturing only 4 per cent of the viewing market in the UK . |