Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] when " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is wise to remember that these men were competing at a time when the black presence was of only tiny significance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All of these changes were happening at a time when the rapid expansion of television was encouraging even greater isolation . |
| 5 | THREE people died and two others were injured at the weekend when their car crashed into a train it was trying to beat over an unmanned level-crossing near Doncaster , South Yorks . |
| 6 | Nine people were injured at the weekend when a bomb exploded in a dustbin at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg . |
| 7 | This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world . |
| 8 | Many of the older packages were written in the days when memory was a pricey commodity and only allow small models to be created . |
| 9 | In brief , both Lanfranc and Anselm were living in a time when the ancient consensus of local testimony , which had sufficed in the past for most matters of faith and practice , was being subordinated to more formal legal and rational procedures . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The carpets were laid on a Sunday when the Palace is closed to the public . |
| 13 | Two were abandoned in the mid-1980s when they were discovered to cause cancer in rats . |
| 14 | Blood samples of the fasted state of the rats were taken at the time when the animals were killed for measurement of gastrin and CCK in plasma and were collected in EDTA tubes from the internal jugular vein . |
| 15 | And er they were , well quite a lot of them were scrapped in the days when the depression came on . |
| 16 | Since they were flourishing during the period when the land was invaded and since they certainly possessed limb-like fins , it seemed likely that they were the creatures from which the first land vertebrates were descended . |
| 17 | So Smith is arguing that Freud 's analyses were conducted at a time when society was still undergoing a fundamental shift towards not only an industrialised society but one characterised by the growth of large cities . |
| 18 | The report focussed particularly on universities which were constructed at a time when long-lasting buildings were not a priority . |
| 19 | But those arguments were expressed at a time when their implications were seen as inappropriate , unrealistic or unacceptable by many managers . |
| 20 | The apse is widely believed to represent the peak of Gothic architecture in Italy and was completed at a time when many of the architects working on the project had been brought in from Germany . |
| 21 | It was pressed at the time when Red Rhino were having their well documented financial troubles . |
| 22 | SYMAP was developed at a time when interactive computing was still at an experimental stage . |
| 23 | Later that same season Albert was honoured by the FA when he was selected for the England squad for the International against Scotland at Wembley on 4 April . |
| 24 | In Canada , Siberia , and the Far East , in the trans-Andean regions of Latin America and in Africa , the heroic building period was to come in the years when the railways stood on the threshold of being overtaken by new transportation developments , the internal combustion engine and later the aeroplane . |
| 25 | Since I find novelists tend to say it better than sociologists , let me quote from one who seems to have anticipated a good deal of what was to come after the period when we had never had it so good : |
| 26 | The Epson system referred to was designed at a time when it was more appropriate to use proprietary Epson upgrades . |
| 27 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 28 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 29 | The flight panel was designed in the days when American firms used to write the names of the instruments on bits of paper , put them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes . |
| 30 | The ample panel ‘ was designed in the days when American firms used to write the name of the instruments on bits of paper , uput them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes ’ . |