Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [verb] [prep] a time " in BNC.
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1 | It is difficult for artists working at a time of crisis to achieve a rounded representation of reality . |
2 | Ironically , the sale of Manton comes at a time when Sangster 's fortunes on the track are looking up . |
3 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 ) . |
6 | The charges of rape relate to a time two years before that , when he held a similar position at a childrens home in Norfolk , run by Norfolk County Council . |
7 | This kind of move came at a time when Tetley 's , along with other arms of Allied Breweries , espoused and encouraged a culture of well-informed and caring in-house designers . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Her career in geography began at a time when , in Britain , this field was still among the less fully organized of the sciences . |
12 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
13 | The dog attacks in England came at a time when the government were losing their grip — becoming very unpopular . |
14 | And to , to resign and to bring the new leader in charge to settle for a time . |
15 | Their adoption in Britain occurred at a time of high unemployment . |
16 | The strong recovery in manufacturing comes at a time when it appears to have stalled in the rest of the UK . |
17 | For works written at a time when Beethoven was still in his middle period , the lyricism in the works is extraordinary . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The MHW decision on haemophiliacs comes at a time when Japan is beginning to accept AIDS as a national health problem . |