Example sentences of "[noun pl] came at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the increased weight of demands came at a time when the actual problems thrust before government were not only more complex and intractable , but were also more interdependent — solve one ( say , inflation ) and you only caused another ( rising unemployment ) . |
| 2 | Lijn 's desire to merge or melt the difference between the visual and aural senses came at a time when many artists were wishing to anticipate a more holistic view of art . |
| 3 | Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority . |
| 4 | The broking scandals came at a time when the Japanese government was already under pressure , both at home and abroad , to improve the supervision of its financial markets , to make insider trading illegal , and simultaneously to allow foreign institutions a greater degree of involvement in the domestic securities markets . |
| 5 | The decisions came at a meeting of a sub-committee of the highways committee . |
| 6 | The incidents came at a time when Sellafield was already facing prosecution for allegedly not taking proper safety precautions at its high-level waste processing plant ( see above ) and when it is seeking new authorisations for discharges into the air . |
| 7 | The support given to Vera Coppard and her family by the Quakers came at a point when the Jewish organisations in Berlin and Vienna were reduced almost to the point of impotence . |