Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] at a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | How I could fall asleep at a time like that I do n't know . |
| 2 | In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high . |
| 3 | Moreover , prospects for new publishing ventures seemed bleak at a time when the print runs of even state-owned newspapers were being crippled by an acute paper shortage caused by inefficiency and technological obsolescence in the timber and pulp-and-paper industries . |
| 4 | Robert King 's series of concerts and workshops are proving invaluable at a time when authentic performance , a long time in its coming to these northern parts , is fast developing its own passionate audience . |
| 5 | The problem of drawing a legal line between moral outrage and individual freedom has become intractable at a time when one person 's obscenity is another person 's bedtime reading . |
| 6 | Thus , two new launches had proved possible at a time when new dailies were generally still unpractical . |
| 7 | It seems ironic at a time of mounting concern about the excessive hours of junior hospital doctors . |
| 8 | It seems providential at a time when good news and dreams are in short supply : 430 unknown drawings by Amedeo Modigliani from his eight crucial years in Paris ( 1906–14 ) , which will be published by Noel Alexandre in September . |
| 9 | And there certainly was n't any point in her moving out of her Mum 's to live alone at a time like this . |
| 10 | The danger of the latter approach is that they can be shelved and then become critical at a time when resources are being deployed elsewhere . |
| 11 | In the northern hemisphere , summer temperatures are such that many eggs become infective at a time when a population of susceptible foals is present . |
| 12 | This may seem perverse at a time when the old industries have shed the greater part of their workforce , and unemployment is pushing towards the three-million mark . |