Example sentences of "were [vb pp] at a time [adv] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | This is understandable because the Gospels were written at a time when the Church had to exist in a Roman world . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The report focussed particularly on universities which were constructed at a time when long-lasting buildings were not a priority . |
8 | But those arguments were expressed at a time when their implications were seen as inappropriate , unrealistic or unacceptable by many managers . |