Example sentences of "a time when [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first meeting is also a time when transgressions are most likely to cause lasting damage . |
| 2 | This was at a time when prices were rising at 30–40 per cent per annum . |
| 3 | An odd move , to be sure , at a time when prices were falling — and in a rather smart street , too , where such a venture would not be guaranteed to make him instantly popular with the neighbours , as customers came in one door and noisome smells came out of another . |
| 4 | In the bond market , the Bank does not actively try to sell at a time when prices are falling ; indeed its spokesmen have often asserted that it can not sell in such conditions , that the views of investors in the short-term are predominantly extrapolative and that few will wish to buy stock when the price is falling . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Too many studios had been built in Britain during the production boom and , at a time when filmmakers were anyway keener than they had been hitherto to get out among ordinary people , they found they were no longer constrained by anxious accountants determined to maximize the use of studio space . |
| 7 | On the pitch he represented amazing , individualistic skill and off it he typified the so-called swinging sixties ( although the picture was actually taken in the early seventies ) of nightclubs , Manchester , and a time when footballers behaved like pop stars , not robots . |
| 8 | The ruling came at a time when Indians throughout Canada were asserting their rights to vast areas of land . |
| 9 | At its crudest the conservative-historical approach to permissiveness is but a mourning for a lost ‘ golden age ’ , an expression of grief for the passing of a time when questions of morals supposedly appeared much simpler , more straightforward and certainly less contentious and open to question . |
| 10 | If not , sit down and have a chat with your child ; but not at a time when feelings are running high . |
| 11 | Certainly , if there was a degree of hostility to the Danes in London the anniversary of Ælfheah 's death on 19 April would have been a time when feelings ran particularly high , for Cnut 's England was clearly conscious of anniversaries of recent events , as awareness of the dates of the battle of Assandun in 1016 and the death of Edmund Ironside indicates . |
| 12 | Mr Ashe , who received a supportive phone call yesterday from President Bush , shot to fame in 1968 when he won the first United States Open at a time when blacks were still largely excluded from professional tennis . |
| 13 | A The first kind developed out of the Romantic movement which emerged at a time when artists of all kinds rebelled against being servants in wealthy households , obeying their patrons ' orders and being regulated by religious , political and other advisers . |
| 14 | To celebrate a time when artists were also jewellers , we have selected some examples of their work-and of the work they helped to inspire . |
| 15 | Is it beyond imagination , in these days of biological engineering , to conceive of a time when embryos will be implanted in a man 's body , and develop , and be born — perhaps by caesarian section ? |
| 16 | Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that we are in the middle of the media silly-season , a time when papers and TV news bulletins are full of doom-laden Christmas tales . |
| 17 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 18 | It is evident , too , that everyone is doing this at a time when thoughts of recession could easily exclude any charitable action . |
| 19 | At a time when critics were fond of describing artists as ‘ emerging ’ , he would say : ‘ What 's all this about emerging ? |
| 20 | But the discussion did give added weight to the demand for reform at a time when concepts of national interest were more frequently deployed — wartime . |
| 21 | Her strong views on national sovereignty and limiting the competence of the European Community — at a time when moves to greater unity were gathering pace — placed Britain in a familiar minority of one . |
| 22 | Its formation at a time when moves are well-advanced to remove customs and other technical barriers throughout the Community is well-timed . |
| 23 | But at a time when tunes from bourgeois sources were increasingly popular and when traditional , so called ‘ folk ’ tunes were in decline , certainly in the music hall , Corvan used comparatively few of the former and actively retained many of the latter . |
| 24 | International Military Services , the British Government 's arms sales company , went ahead with a construction consultancy in the face of Foreign Office opposition at a time when exports of defence-related equipment to Iraq were banned . |
| 25 | At a time when managers in other companies worried about being ‘ out of sight , out of mind ’ , the IBMer had his Career Manager to keep him in view . |
| 26 | A DP communiqué of March 11 looked forward to a time when Albanians would not " need to undertake dangerous adventures in search of a better future " . |
| 27 | It 's a lovely world , beautiful world but it 's the people in it you see who are spoiling things so much and I do n't understand youngsters you see but because young people erm there , there was a time when youngsters just er do just as they like and they were n't reprimanded by the parents , whereas my parents were very strict you see and it did n't do me any harm and I 'm glad now that they were . |
| 28 | At a time when skills are in demand , they have been wantonly discarded . |
| 29 | At a time when cities were being reformed and regulated as never before it was inevitable that the movies would be regulated . |
| 30 | He sketched out its original business plan on the back of a napkin in 1983 ( a time when napkins were home to many new ideas ) . |