Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [art] time [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided . |
| 2 | The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency . |
| 3 | But few critics are laughing at a time when ex-Klansman David Duke is able seriously to contend the governorship of Louisiana . |
| 4 | When Queenie talks about the increased expenditure on recreation from nineteen eighty to now , that 's quite right , there has been a huge increase in spending , and that 's because the Labour Council was committed to improving recreation facilities in the City , and it did n't continue the appalling record that the Conservative administration had had before of virtually no recreational facilities , it invested in recreation facilities — you listed them yourself — and of course those facilities have to be paid for and on when we have stood for election we 've always made it clear that we want to provide quality services , but of course that they have to be paid for , and so the second point that you then made was that , you know , our budget 's gone up beyond belief , well I mean this year it 's being cut by two million pounds , last year it was a standstill budget , and erm that has been done at a time when in fact Central Government has been transferring responsibilities from Central Government onto Local Government without increasing , indeed at the same time decreasing the amount of Central Government grant that 's gone to local councils . |
| 5 | It had , after all , been built at a time when the rooms were heated by coal fires tended by an army of minions and when a score of carefully composed hand-written minutes by the Department 's legendary eccentrics were adequate to control events which now required three divisions and a couple of under secretaries . |
| 6 | We are living at a time when everyone is forced to adopt a political position : one day it will become clear that 6 February 1934 marked a dividing point in literature as well as in politics . |
| 7 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 8 | In Shell UK v Lostock Garage Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1187 Lord Denning MR explained what he thought was meant by the proposition that reasonableness is to be considered at the time when the contract is made : If the terms impose a restraint which is unreasonable in the sense that it may work unfairly in circumstances which may reasonably be anticipated , the courts will refuse to enforce the restraint : but it will not hold it to be unenforceable simply because it might work unfairly in certain exceptional circumstances outside the reasonable expectation of the parties at the time of making the agreement . |
| 9 | Such application may be made at the time when the order is made ; if not then applied for , the practice required , at least in some courts , is that the applicant should certify in writing that he has notified the other party of the intended application . |
| 10 | However , in order to be used successfully , pointing must be carefully co-ordinated with the child 's vocalisations and her direction of gaze and be performed at a time when the adult is attending to the child ( Lock 1980a ) . |
| 11 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |
| 12 | I take note of what my Hon. Friend says : it is a great pity if any parish church has to be locked at a time when members of the public may wish to enter it . |
| 13 | His father had thought it would be a good idea to ask for the boats to be blessed at a time when Whitby Harbour was crowded with the big Scottish fleet which was following the herring as they moved south . |
| 14 | ( 5 ) It will be helpful if the announcement of the offer can coincide with positive public relations coverage for the offeror. ( 6 ) Ideally , a bid should not be announced at a time when it will have a reduced impact ( eg on a day which is expected to be dominated by other major financial news or company announcements ) . |
| 15 | I repeat that there is no need for any school budget in Northumberland to be cut at a time when its overall expenditure can increase by 5.4 per cent . |
| 16 | No redeemable shares can be issued at a time when there are no issued shares of the company which are not redeemable . |
| 17 | It is not that primary teachers must become preoccupied with examinations or tests to be taken at the time when a child changes school . |
| 18 | These morning sets would be begun at the time when enough of the young rabbits were big enough to sell . |
| 19 | It is for this second tranche of shares that management will probably require loans to subscribe , and , to qualify for interest relief , these shares must be subscribed at a time when Newco controls Target . |
| 20 | However , if the income which arose in year 1 had not been charged at the time when the payment was made in year 3 to the beneficiary , that relieving provision would not be applicable and it would appear that the tax charge would take place in year 3 . |
| 21 | In the 1980s , aggregate Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) has been roughly static , and per capita GDP has been falling at a time when net aid flows have been rising . |
| 22 | In a semi-literate age politicians are fragile ; they live by and through institutions which were developed at a time when speech-writers were unknown and MPs were elected on policies evolved without feedback , positive or negative , from market researchers . |
| 23 | It is wise to remember that these men were competing at a time when the black presence was of only tiny significance . |
| 24 | These roles were pursued at a time when the ideas , language , and values underpinning social care were changing rapidly and when resource constraints were worsening . |
| 25 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 26 | At Forncett , the average rent per acre of lands leased was markedly lower in the fifteenth century than in the late fourteenth , although one can not tell from the published figures how far the fluctuations may have been due to variations in the quality of the particular pieces of land being leased at the time rather than to a general decline in rent levels . |
| 27 | This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world . |
| 28 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 29 | Most of the current generation of older people were born at a time when the motor car was an unusual sight on the streets , aeroplanes were rarely seen in the skies , telephones were rare , radio and television were many years from invention . |
| 30 | His notion of a European intellectual and cultural order , for example , was being asserted at a time when political events began to destroy the illusion of a common European identity . |