Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lloyd George 's Government had embarked on a programme of financing social reform at a time of rapidly rising prices . |
| 2 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 3 | Both were serving long sentences at the time , Finucane for possessing firearms and ammunition and Clarke for the attempted murder of a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment ( a part-time regiment of the British Army ) . |
| 4 | Completion of the plant has been bitterly opposed by environmental campaigners , who criticise the government for favouring nuclear power at a time when other European nations are phasing it out . |
| 5 | They were , of course , only reflecting commonly-held views of the time . |
| 6 | When Paul ( or the writer ) in I Timothy 2 tails about women not teaching men he makes this an absolute because he was reflecting Jewish society at the time . |
| 7 | And the people who were farming Blind Beck at the time killed a pig and sent down a lovely pork pie to us . |
| 8 | I make not a party-political point , but one which shows the reality of not having proper consultations on the time scale for implementing such a major piece of legislation . |
| 9 | Even so , giving bright light at a time which should not affect the body clock or even adjust it in the wrong direction could be tested — as has already been described . |
| 10 | The meeting with British art historian Basil Taylor first fuelled his enthusiasm for collecting British art at a time when this area was greatly undervalued . |
| 11 | His fame is odder still when you consider this : Hoover was chasing small-time hoods at a time when organised crime was building an empire on Prohibition and its consequences . |
| 12 | He is far from dismayed by the prospect of achieving financial independence at a time of a publishing recession . |
| 13 | If elderly people are persuaded to uproot themselves in a hurry at the first sign of trouble , making major decisions at a time when they are not emotionally stable enough to think them through , like selling their homes and moving away from old friends and familiar surroundings into the different world and routine of a younger household , they sometimes regret it , and much unhappiness ensues for everyone . |
| 14 | He had been playing Happy Families at the time and wondering why it was that the families depicted on the cards should be so happy and his was n't . |
| 15 | ( These alliances had the additional advantage of earning ecclesiastical approval at a time when there was growing pressure from canonists against unions within six degrees of relationship . ) |
| 16 | I had always been singing energetic music from the time I was just a little girl , and when I started getting songs like Sweet Nothings , I loved those songs , and I wanted to sing them . |