Example sentences of "[adj] at [art] time " in BNC.
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1 | It had struck Dougal at the time that Lorton 's view of patriotism was more than old-fashioned : it was positively feudal , in that it depended on loyalty to a single person . |
2 | This tendency to dichotomize policemen against the social reformer even led the ex-police liberal John Alderson uncharacteristically to describe the historian E. P. Thompson as being ‘ an unfair critic of the police ’ ( Public Office , Granada TV , 20 June 1980 ) ; and this at a time when Thompson ( 1980 ) had just pointed out that most policemen are ‘ ordinary blokes , and no society could do without them in dealing with many of its sordid realities ’ . |
3 | Probably not since the French Revolution had a foreign event so bitterly divided the British people , and this at a time when national unity was essential for our survival . |
4 | It is evident , too , that everyone is doing this at a time when thoughts of recession could easily exclude any charitable action . |
5 | And all this at a time when they are undergoing dramatic changes both physically and emotionally — changes which they often find very difficult to deal with . |
6 | And this at a time when resistance is likely to be lowered . |
7 | The proposal was evidently servicing a deficit model of education , which diagnosed that something was wrong with teachers which industry could put right : this at a time when education was faced by changes of revolutionary proportions , new content through curriculum reform required by the Education Reform Act and GCSE , new models of learning , new forms of assessment e.g. Records of Achievement ; new organisations e.g. tertiary colleges ; new accountability , newly appointed parent and industrial governors , new professionalism through initial teacher education , and training reforms for employment training . |
8 | You should n't have to put up with all this at a time of such sadness . |
9 | And all this at a time when China 's leaders are asking the PLA to do a bigger job than ever before . |
10 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
11 | The treaty between Robert II of Flanders and Henry I of England , renewed by their successors , stipulated that each knight supplied to the English king should bring three horses with him — this at a time when a horse represented a major investment . |
12 | The poem which gives us the best insight into knightly and aristocratic life c. 1200 , L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal ( the story of William Marshal ) , rarely fails to tell us how much a particular horse was worth : it could be as much as forty , fifty or even a hundred livres — and this at a time when a serf could be bought for ten livres . |
13 | ( And this at a time when the Unionists could install their own government whenever they wished , through their control of both Houses . ) |
14 | This brings some benefits through musical cross-fertilisation between the cathedral and the wider community , but the cathedral does not always get the full benefit of one who is employed to do what is commonly regarded as a full-time job , and this at a time when the Church needs from its organists not only the highest musical expertise but also liturgical knowledge and a readiness to take some part in the running of the cathedral . |
15 | The President of the Law Society calculated in 1980 that , with some 44,000 solicitors in practice , the number of young people actively trying to qualify was 15,000 , and this at a time when work was stagnating . |
16 | This at a time when the book clubs are coming to trade in the high street . |
17 | The world has lost confidence in us and now doubts Britain 's ability to successfully deal with its economic problems — this at a time when we are major producers of oil ! |
18 | This at a time when our much valued and valuable oil revenues are at their height : and on top of this our currency continually drops in value abroad . |
19 | This at a time when British Agriculture is being cut back in margins and output . |
20 | And I felt that I did n't really want to do this at a time when I was still floundering about and not having very disciplined classes and so on . |
21 | If you require delivery of your car to the airport into which you are flying , please state this at the time of booking . |
22 | Of course , Carol was not aware of this at the time she acquired her permit ; she was not yet born . |
23 | I did not know this at the time . |
24 | Nor were some of the earlier beach reconnaissances the most encouraging of precedents , although Clogstoun-Willmott did not know this at the time . |
25 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |
26 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
27 | The inescapable fact is that I did n't want to be a woman , although I was unaware of this at the time . |
28 | We now know that Robin Smith , John Cunningham and Pat Walsh in Scotland , and Arthur Dolphin and Pete Greenwood in the Lakes , were doing first ascents every bit as difficult as those by Joe Brown and Don Whillans — but I do n't remember being aware of this at the time . |
29 | He often came out as a bit of a bighead and , accused of this at the time , took a tape-measure and agreed that his head had indeed expanded by one-eighth of an inch since leaving Wales . |
30 | While Barth had by no means worked through all the implications of this at the time of his controversy with Brunner , the disagreement which came into the open in 1934 can be seen in retrospect as foreshadowing the shape of his own future theology . |