Example sentences of "in [noun] [prep] a time when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their concern for the Hungarian minority in Romania at a time when relations between Budapest and Bucharest were excellent frequently landed them in trouble with the authorities . |
| 2 | Established birth control and resulting low fertility permitted a unique advance in marriage at a time when married women were not yet committed to the work-force . |
| 3 | One of the few occasions that United Biscuits ever took a hasty decision was when it bought a company in Spain at a time when it felt under pressure to expand into Europe . |
| 4 | Most doctors and consultants in hospitals try to make appointments for people in work at a time when they will not lose too much money . |
| 5 | The incident has angered senior party officials who are fighting to retain Conservative-held seats in Scotland at a time when the Scottish Nationalist bandwagon is gathering pace . |
| 6 | ‘ But it is infinitely the best show in town at a time when legislation threatens press freedom and we shall do everything we can to support it through the arguments ahead . ’ |
| 7 | You got me a summer job in heaven at a time when it felt as if my life was hell . |
| 8 | Those with a taste for Machiavellian plots have suggested that maybe Mr Li has set a trap for Mr Zhu by leaving him in charge at a time when he will have to tackle the delicate problems of an over-heating economy . |
| 9 | Such fears , which were particularly strong in West Germany , were heightened when the USSR deployed new SS-20 missiles in Europe at a time when NATO 's altermediate range nuclear missiles ( that is missiles of less than inter-continental range ) were becoming outdated . |
| 10 | In a typically British way , we have failed to take the credit that is due to us for that achievement , which had its origins in the Kangaroo group of Members of the European Parliament founded by the late Basil de Ferranti specifically to break down the trade barriers that existed in Europe at a time when none of the other major Community partners wanted to know anything about it . |
| 11 | A change came in the second half of the 1370s , when there was a sharp drop in prices at a time when wages continued to rise , and from 1377 until the middle of the 1390s the Phelps Brown index shows a markedly higher level of real wages . |
| 12 | Quite deliberately , she summoned the memory of the anguish of six years ago , the job she loved summarily barred to her and her Communications course sacrificed ; and she dwelt especially on the dilemma that had torn at her then , the agonising conflict between her obstinate determination to pursue an uninterrupted career in radio at a time when there were no positions to be had in Johannesburg but possibilities in Durban , and a heart-wrenching reluctance to leave her parents alone when advanced emphysema was shortening her father 's life so cruelly . |
| 13 | In 1826 he took over his deceased brother 's drapery business in Bedford at a time when there was a serious run on the banks and many small traders were struggling to survive . |
| 14 | Trudgill 's informants grew up in Norwich at a time when the city was expanding to accommodate many incomers from surrounding localities and from London : the resulting linguistic situation may well have been characterised by diffuse norms which allowed " outsiders " , including those born in Norwich to parents from elsewhere , to " get away with " an imperfect knowledge of the Norwich dialect . |
| 15 | As with a number of similar literary-based projects around in Hollywood at a time when mainstream studios were trying to discover what to do next after the demise of musical and religious epics , it was not a success . |