Example sentences of "[vb past] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick Cave surfaced at a time when post-punk 's handle on the workings of desire was diagrammatic and programmatic . |
| 2 | Pope Clement , however , was not inclined to agree and that occurred at a time when the people of England were annoyed at the imposition of heavy taxation by the Cardinal Morton , also Cardinal Wolsey . |
| 3 | It occurred at a time when abolitionist leaders hoped for improved treatment of slaves in the West Indies but had not focused on emancipation as an objective and had not specifically propagandised for it . |
| 4 | Their adoption in Britain occurred at a time of high unemployment . |
| 5 | This occurred at a time when the militancy of rank-and-file officers increased . |
| 6 | This occurred at a time when the Government support in the opinion polls was at one of its lowest ebbs and seemed a desperate attempt to create an atmosphere in which opposition to the Poll Tax became synonymous with criminality . |
| 7 | This occurred at a time when the future of the Harwell Laboratory , AEA 's main research establishment , had come under review . |
| 8 | In the Netherlands , however , it appears that for much of the past 30 years , a substantial reduction in levels of imprisonment occurred with no greater rise in crime than occurred in Britain ; and that reduction occurred at a time of rising crime in Holland . |
| 9 | The talks were the most significant in a 15-month series of deputy foreign ministerial level discussions in that they occurred at a time when the two countries appeared to be on the verge of restoring full diplomatic relations . |
| 10 | Certainly the fringe banking crisis of 1973–74 occurred at a time of a large inflow of new institutions into the market as a result of the perceived liberal market conditions brought about through competition and credit control . |
| 11 | For ‘ Paris ’ add Prague , London , Venice , anywhere beautiful and foreign and not of the everyday , and for ‘ young man ’ insert ‘ or middle aged woman ’ and for ‘ lived ’ and ‘ or visited at a time in your life when you most needed it . ’ |
| 12 | This kind of move came at a time when Tetley 's , along with other arms of Allied Breweries , espoused and encouraged a culture of well-informed and caring in-house designers . |
| 13 | It was ironic that 1989 saw the centenary celebration of the Fabian Essays of Webb , Shaw , and their comrades ; this came at a time when Britain seemed in more complete reaction against the imperatives of Fabian rationalism than at any time for a century . |
| 14 | His historic speech at Harvard University on June 5 , 1947 , came at a time when it was increasingly clear that there was a fundamental imbalance between the US economy , which had emerged bigger and stronger from the war , and the destitution of Europe . |
| 15 | Ironically this change in public opinion came at a time when Arab terrorists were letting off bombs in Paris , which French people thought quite terrible . |
| 16 | In reflection , Nicholson remembers that apart from the task of writing a film about a new subject on which there was very little in the way of written research material , it also came at a time when he was going through his divorce . |
| 17 | The dog attacks in England came at a time when the government were losing their grip — becoming very unpopular . |
| 18 | The seminar came at a time when the contribution of women in the Church promised to become an increasingly important part of the decision-making process in the life of the Church ’ , the editorial continued . |
| 19 | His moment came at a time when shoring up the old seemed all that mattered or all that anyone could think of . |
| 20 | None of this necessarily involved fighting between French and British , but it came at a time when the British Company was revising its policy of relying on the Moghul Emperor and on the successes of Englishmen outside India to protect its position . |
| 21 | Weakening British exports , as the incomes of the primary producing countries overseas began to fall , came at a time of a downturn in the US economy which greatly aggravated deflationary tendencies . |
| 22 | It came at a time when dislocation of the Latin American economies as a result of the First World War caused widespread unemployment and increasingly militant labour unrest . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority . |
| 25 | Especially as this new bit of gossip came at a time when the idea that Walter Machin was becoming posthumously a national figure was beginning to filter through to Oswaldston consciousness . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The meeting came at a time when relations between the two countries were unusually strained . |
| 28 | It came at a time of growing interest among member countries of the European Communities ( EC ) in new sources for cheaper supplies of bananas , following the relaxation of the preferential access granted to certain African and Caribbean countries covered by the EC 's Lomé Convention agreement [ see pp. 37210-11 ] . |
| 29 | His death came at a time when the movement was split over whether to join in the negotiations or to maintain its principles and risk being marginalized . |
| 30 | Moves to demonstrate the government 's seriousness came at a time when the UN was due to release a report on the effects of the embargo on the Jordanian economy . |