Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the introduction of spinning and weaving machines at the time of the Industrial Revolution in Britain destroyed craft jobs and created fragmented tasks which were performed by unskilled workers , will the new technology also be used to de-skill work ? |
| 2 | It failed to find a publisher either in Macmillan or elsewhere , but Hardy was given a great deal of largely conflicting and unsettling advice at a time when he was ‘ feeling his way to a method ’ . |
| 3 | A judicial investigation had opened on July 7 , 1989 , into the possible involvement of Blecha , Gratz and a former Federal Chancellor , Alfred ( Fred ) Sinowatz , and the court dealing with the affair began preliminary inquiries in September into the role played by the SPÖ Finance Minister , Ferdinand Lacina ( Minister for Transport and State Industries at the time ) ; similar inquiries were also initiated into the former Defence Minister , Friedhelm Frischenschläger ( FPÖ ) , and a former Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Minister , Erwin Lanc ( SPÖ ) . |
| 4 | While most students not in receipt of a job offer were making applications and attending interviews at the time they completed the Initial destinations questionnaires , the fact that one third of students would be looking for employment at the end of the courses can only be regarded as a disappointing , and rather unexpected , finding . |
| 5 | In 756 , after successfully campaigning against the Britons of Strathclyde and besieging Dumbarton at the time of the alliance with Óengus , son of Forgus , king of the Picts , almost the whole of Eadberht 's army perished at Newburgh on the Tyne , perhaps at the hands of the Britons . |