Example sentences of "but at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at a time when the swing is to full-time 4 × 4 , they have added a central viscous coupling so that in 4 × 4 , on road or off , the power goes to the wheels with the most grip without transmission wind-up and all that entails , which can be locked for extra traction off-road . |
| 2 | ‘ But at a time of rising neo-Nazi sentiment , it is very worrying when Kohl himself rolls out the red carpet for a man like Waldheim . ’ |
| 3 | But at a time when incumbent leaders across the world are facing a recessionary backlash from their people , Mr Major can go out on to the international stage with enhanced authority . |
| 4 | Admittedly the main duty of this force — if we may call it that — was ceremonial , but at a time when many of their contemporaries were off fighting in a real war , they must have looked at times like extras from a pantomime . |
| 5 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |
| 6 | ‘ Obviously one has to welcome investment in road infrastructure , but at a time when there is no cash for new rolling stock or proper line maintenance , I find this very surprising . ’ |
| 7 | Some projects succeeded the minitel — others proved costly and apparently failed ( TDF satellites ) : but at a time of convergence and synergies , they made France a world leader in telecoms and space . |
| 8 | They will still meet their contractual obligations but at a time more beneficial to the patients and thus be more cost effective . |
| 9 | But at a time like that when i it 's devoted to the fallen in a war and men who were the heroes of the war say it was disgusting , you know , and and how they , they expressed themselves I thought was was a very very significant thing , it made a very very strong impression . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Eventually she plumped for Persian help , but at a time ( 412 ) when her potential critics inside the league were less effective ( cp. p. 97 on Corinth ) . |
| 12 | Common action on issues at a local level seemed threatened , but at no time did the war seriously compromise the determination of labour leaders to defend living conditions ; in many instances the struggle was intensified , although not to the point of sabotaging the war effort . |
| 13 | This lasted for some weeks but at no time was the baby at risk either physically or psychologically nor was the mother and baby bond threatened . |
| 14 | They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room . |
| 15 | But at the time he was glad to leave . |
| 16 | Lewis treasured this conversation in after years , but at the time he found it disconcerting and annoying . |
| 17 | He can laugh about it now , and has referred to it in many speeches since to very good effect ; but at the time it hurt . |
| 18 | But at the time he had no one with the expertise to guide him , and was very easily influenced by the persuasive arguments of the last person he spoke to on any given subject . |
| 19 | It was very short-lived but at the time it was a bit of a shock . |
| 20 | There were none of this in the beginning , in the first two years , but at the time of ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ , a lot of drugs began to come in , a lot of alcohol came in with different individuals , which helped fuel things . |
| 21 | But at the time I took her , the bushes had grown across the path , and we got stuck , with her widow 's weeds entangled in branches and thorns until she could move no more . |
| 22 | But at the time , characteristically , it was suggested that the book must have been written by Jean-Paul Sartre , the companion whom de Beauvoir was famous for not being married to . |
| 23 | I know it sounds pathetic but at the time it gave me a bit of a fright . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But at the time I do n't think Kylie or anybody else had any idea of the phenomenal success she would have . |
| 25 | But at the time , none of this truth was known . |
| 26 | By temperament he could never be a member of a group , but at the time he was associated with a talented wartime circle which included Max Jacob , the poet Cocteau , the composer Eric Satie , the painters Juan Gris , Kisling , Foujita and , more rarely , Picasso and the sculptors Archipenko , Zadkine and Lipchitz . |
| 27 | But at the time of the launch of Dada , Modigliani was not clear about the meaning of the new movement and no one else seemed to know . |
| 28 | The rewards of this parliamentary victory were to come with the defeat of the French armies in 1870 , but at the time opponents of the Emperor saw only a means of forcing him further along the path of change . |
| 29 | We 're used to it now , of course , but at the time it seemed rather exciting . |
| 30 | It is a method that is nearly always used there days but at the time it was quite a new technique , certainly for a band like The Wedding Present . |