Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [prep] [art] time of " in BNC.

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1 London Underground said last night the station was in the process of being evacuated at the time of the blast .
2 The action was brought by the owners of the two ships which were being repaired at the time of the fire and were damaged .
3 This part closely resembled Brodrick 's best-known building , Leeds Town Hall , which was the result of a competition that he had won in 1853 and was being built at the time of the Government Offices competition .
4 The Leicestershire farms had a considerable amount of land rented on short-term leases : this land was being used at the time of the survey but might not be available in future years .
5 Other ranges and designs were introduced to cope with even heavier demands and with minor amendments , utility furniture was still being produced at the time of the festival of Britain in nineteen fifty one .
6 Is not the real problem facing many TECs the fact that their funds are being cut at a time of recession and rapidly rising unemployment ?
7 And reciprocally , if memory formation requires the synthesis of proteins for the construction of synapses , then if one could stop the proteins from being synthesized around the time of learning then the memory should not be formed ; an animal trained on a task and prevented from synthesizing proteins should behave as if it has no memory for the task — is amnesic — when it is subsequently asked to perform it .
8 Nearly 500 people arrested after the rebel attacks were still being held at the time of the AI visit .
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