Example sentences of "was [vb pp] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was given at a time of full employment and full employment persisted into the post-war world . |
| 2 | The apse is widely believed to represent the peak of Gothic architecture in Italy and was completed at a time when many of the architects working on the project had been brought in from Germany . |
| 3 | SYMAP was developed at a time when interactive computing was still at an experimental stage . |
| 4 | The Epson system referred to was designed at a time when it was more appropriate to use proprietary Epson upgrades . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Functional groups were designated by suffixes ( prefixes were not required , because only one functional group was considered at a time ) . |
| 8 | 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 : |
| 9 | On the other hand , the doctor would probably be in breach of his duty if it could be shown that the patient 's request was made at a time when he was demonstrably and predictably suffering from a temporary condition which made his judgment unreliable . |
| 10 | That submission was made at a time when I was sch not scheduled to be present at this enquiry , and was not present . |
| 11 | And of course this whole area , I mean this whole area was , was built at a time when those factories were at their height , in the sort of late nineteenth century . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Schubert Dip ’ , Ian tells me , was written at a time of innocence , frivolity and irresponsibility . |
| 15 | He was born at a time when the great majority of musicians were employed by patrons — wealthy aristocrats , monarchs , or prelates — or as civic musicians working for a town council . |
| 16 | He submitted that it was reached at a time when the essential principles of the law of negligence were established and properly represented the result of the application of those principles . |
| 17 | Because income support was introduced at a time when there would otherwise have been an increase in supplementary benefits , and because transitional protection has been provided for some groups of claimants who have been transferred to income support , the Government claims that relatively few people suffered an actual cut in benefit in April 1988 . |
| 18 | His company , a family business , was recently sold against his wishes and the British Steel Challenge was announced at a time when he was looking for a complete change of direction . |
| 19 | The decision to abolish the GLC and MCCs was taken at a time of major political disagreements between the GLC , in particular , and the national government ( Livingstone 1988 ) . |
| 20 | They are actually all for and b =8/3 but various values of P. In each case the integration was started at a time sufficiently earlier than the start of the trace that the choice of initial conditions is not having a large direct effect . |
| 21 | The NHS was created at a time of post-war reconstruction , when large sections of British industry were being nationalised by the Labour government . |
| 22 | The growth between the latter two dates was achieved at a time when the GTP and the Canadian Northern were themselves turning into grain-carrying lines . |
| 23 | The Labour government was elected at a time when Keynesian economics was moving towards being accepted as economic orthodoxy . |
| 24 | The first UN organization to have its headquarters in a developing country ( Nairobi , Kenya ) , UNEP was established at a time when the need to safeguard the environment from the impact of economic and population growth was not generally recognized . |
| 25 | Interesting , then , that his book was published at a time when the Western world was still recoiling after the oil sheikhs ' first shock to our system . |
| 26 | There is an exemption contained in s23(5) which applies where the holding was acquired at a time when the prohibition did not apply ( ie before the reverse takeover ) but subsequently the holder falls within the prohibition ( ie on the reverse takeover offer becoming unconditional ) . |
| 27 | His 1977 LP New Boots and Panties , a witty , vulgar celebration of low-life in Billericay and Shoeburyness , was released at a time when other British groups were singing about California in counterfeit mid-Atlantic accents . |
| 28 | The summit was held at a time when the internal and external relations of a number of the SAARC members were in a state of turmoil . |