Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] at [art] 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 | Most current schemes of assessment for lower-attainers existing at the time the report was written , concentrated on computational skills . |
| 3 | Some early maps of this type show , albeit crudely , the kinds of houses existing at the time of drafting , and it is possible to appreciate the difference between the houses of , say , the more well-to-do freeholder and the lowlier tenant . |
| 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 | However , in spite of promises made at the time by the then Scottish Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , nothing has happened . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Grades shown are typical of offers made at the time of initial application . |
| 10 | An indication of the direction and degree of interest can be given by listing the series of reports produced at the time ( and generally known by the name of the person who chaired the relevant committee ) : |
| 11 | Will he confirm , in line with undertakings given at the time of privatisation , that he expects British Steel to consider offers for the sale of Ravenscraig on a commercial basis at opportunity cost — at a price which British Steel could expect to get for the plant on world markets ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The losses were in line with forecasts given at the time of Wembley 's £37m rights issue in January . |
| 14 | Later research has shown that some of the statements in that paper do not agree with records made at the time in the laboratory notebooks of some of the people concerned . |
| 15 | Without the adjustment , it had been estimated that the budget deficit would have exceeded L147,000,000 million , which was the level predicted by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) in criticisms made at the time of the adoption of the 1990 budget in December 1989 [ see p. 37509 ] . |
| 16 | In his view , the minister 's responses to questions asked at the time the legislation was proposed were consistent with the interpretation that the words ‘ the expense incurred in or in connection with ’ meant that the provision of the benefit would produce a charge to tax on the additional or marginal cost only . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The question for the court is whether the views could honestly have been held by a fair-minded person on facts known at the time . |
| 19 | The MHW decision on haemophiliacs comes at a time when Japan is beginning to accept AIDS as a national health problem . |
| 20 | The western media tended to portray Chea Sim as the leader of a " hardline faction " in opposition to Hun Sen and his " liberal grouping " , an analysis denounced by both men during interviews given at the time of the congress . |
| 21 | The following policy exclusions are of importance in determining whether a valid subsidence claim exists : o Defective design or inadequate construction of the foundations — e.g. where the foundations of a property have not been constructed to a level required by regulations applying at the time of construction . |
| 22 | This is an attempt to bring a greater level of uniformity than we have achieved so far , but we are bound by agreements made at the time of amalgamation and we can not undermine or contradict those particular decisions , and that 's why in a few cases , particularly in relation to the size of conference , there is some slight imbalance . |