Example sentences of "in [noun] [noun] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Mr Lawson has long been in favour of a stable exchange rate — and since industry has enthusiastically supported him , by expressing its enthusiasm for membership of the European Monetary System — it is ill-placed to argue against an increase in base rates at a time when sterling was threatening to fall below three marks , although the Confederation of British Industry has predictably grumbled that the rise was unnecessary . |
| 2 | Among names that immediately spring to mind are those of Sydney Schanberg , the former New York Times correspondent who was in Phnom Penh at the time of the fall , and whose subsequent search for his Cambodian assistant , Dith Pran , was documented in Roland Joffé 's film The Killing Fields , who arrived in Indo- China at the age of 21 and was there from 1970 to mid-1975 , first with Agence France Presse , then as a stringer for The Sunday Times — when all the other journalists were getting out , Swain was either brave or foolhardy enough to fly back into Phnom Penh in time for its fall ; William Shawcross who , along with many others , covered the Vietnam war for The Sunday Times and who subsequently became obsessed with the fate of Cambodia , an obsession that resulted first in Sideshow , which exposed the role of Nixon and Kissinger , and then in The Quality of Mercy , a study of the work of the Red Cross in Cambodia ; John Pilger , the British-based Australian journalist whose work on Cambodia may have had little concrete effect but has at least helped to ensure that the tragic country will never disappear into oblivion ; Philip Caputo , who went initially to Vietnam in March 1965 as a 23-year-old Marine officer with the first US combat group sent to Indo-China and returned in 1975 as a correspondent to report on what was left of the war . |
| 3 | SYDNEY SCHANBERG , bottom right , was The New York Times 's correspondent in Phnom Penh at the time of its fall . |
| 4 | But what about the explanation from the Durham County ambulance service general manager that the Middleton-in-Teesdale ambulance was on its way to an emergency in Newton Aycliffe at the time ? |
| 5 | Durham Ambulance Service chiefs have said the single ambulance on duty at the town 's station was on an emergency call in Newton Aycliffe at the time . |
| 6 | The Co Armagh men were boating on Lough Lannagh in Co Mayo at the time . |
| 7 | So he came round to use mine and to be honest I did n't have too much interest in punk rock at the time but did this fanzine for 12 issues and I got into it . |
| 8 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 9 | The orphans say they were beaten with straps , paddles and fists , sexually and psychologically abused , restrained in strait-jackets weeks at a time , plunged into ice water , lashed to beds . |
| 10 | If we bear in mind that the institutions that did not reply may also have included some for whom the questionnaire was inappropriate , we can assume that the responses we obtained would represent somewhere approaching half those working in teacher education at the time . |
| 11 | In the present study there were no significant differences in body weight at the time of sacrifice so this is not the explanation for the discrepancy in tumour yield between this and the two other studies . |
| 12 | The result has been an expansion in diesel motoring at a time when other sales have been down . |
| 13 | Another aspect of the disregard for the feelings of the unemployed was the reduction in the number of mainstream staff in DSS offices at a time when the number of claimants was rising . |
| 14 | The locomotive was in working order at the time and negotiations proceeded which resulted in transportation to Swanage as described above . |
| 15 | Diplomats said the agreement has strengthened the Cristiani government in El Salvador at a time when it was besieged by a rebel offensive and extreme rightwing elements within the armed forces and the ruling Nationalist Republican Alliance party . |
| 16 | Stars : Everyone in Austin Texas at the time . |
| 17 | His parents had settled in East Dulwich at the time of his registration for Battersea Polytechnic , Michael Joyce having by then cut his losses in building or ‘ architecture ’ and opened his grocer 's shop in this prosperous middle-class suburb . |
| 18 | Figure 2.8 shows the numbers of men and women in Great Britain at the time of the 1981 Census who were employed in the various OPCS social classes or out of employment . |
| 19 | Employers therefore resorted to the reduction of costs , most particularly in wages , in order to compete in world markets at a time when it appeared that rising unemployment made their action possible without major conflict . |
| 20 | There was much going on in world politics at the time , including the Cold War and the Cuba crisis . ’ |
| 21 | He had been working in San Francisco at the time , still learning his trade , revelling in the whole carefree Californian ethos , the sense of shackles dropping , of new horizons glimmering . |
| 22 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 23 | ‘ SO THE LUNATICS have taken charge of the asylum , ’ remarked Richard A. Rowland , president of Metro Pictures , on hearing of the formation of the United Artists Corporation in 1919 by D. W. Griffith , Charles Chaplin , Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks , the four biggest names in motion pictures at the time . |
| 24 | The letters , however , show that the family was deeply involved in county affairs at a time of political turbulence , and on one occasion reveal the pride of John Paston in being a Norfolk man . |
| 25 | Halfway through the tour Ollie Campbell , who was holidaying in New Zealand at the time , made the comment that the Irish were under-prepared for the speed and physical impact of the game as practised by the stronger New Zealand sides . |
| 26 | Derek who exposed the fraud , took the trouble of consulting the police records , for Samoa , at the time when Margaret , was there , and although Margaret claimed there was no rape in Samoa , because children were brought up so nicely , in this kind of , tropical paradise that she , that she portrayed in the book , the fact is , according to the police records , there were more rapes in Samoa , while Margaret , than were occurring in New York at the time was writing , during the nineteen eighties |
| 27 | The Piper debts were paid in full , even although a severe fall in land values at the time caused his properties and other holdings to be sold for rock-bottom sums . |
| 28 | Charles Booth also made reference to the large-scale absenteeism in London schools at the time of the hop harvest . |
| 29 | Fortunately , Mr Hill was in Truro Hospital at the time , out of the area . |
| 30 | Pte Macaulay had served with the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment for 15 months , and had just completed six months of his tour of duty in Northern Ireland at the time of his death . |