Example sentences of "[verb] at a time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Labour could not win at a time of economic gloom , bolstered by the most effective campaign it has ever fought , and facing a Government whose campaign did not really come to life until the last 10 days — then when could it ? |
| 2 | All the nineteenth-century conventions of comedy pointed to the need for universality and in any case Chaplin 's own personal inclinations must have pulled him back from being sectionally committed at a time of class warfare . |
| 3 | In marketing terms it 's a tremendous card to play erm our marketing line in the States was always ‘ we speak your language , a common heritage , a common culture erm almost a common language ’ and erm the special relationship really exits at a time like this to a very marked degree , and we shall be playing that for all it 's worth , certainly . |
| 4 | All this was happening at a time of deep recession worsening by the day with unemployment rising to two and a half million , redundancies up by forty percent in the first four months of ninety one . |
| 5 | Education is often the first to be squeezed at a time of cuts . |
| 6 | They have come at a time of unprecedented pressure on the government to speed up the introduction of a secure unit . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps a trained nurse is n't quite what one wants at a time like this , ’ Sophia agreed . |
| 8 | Their adoption in Britain occurred at a time of high unemployment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Of course this famous pamphlet was a much more practical political publication than The German Ideology and it was written at a time of tremendous political ferment . |
| 13 | The FAO report , written at a time of negligible ecological awareness in fisheries management , suggested that populations of dolphins and fish-eating birds should be reduced to raise the fisheries potential of the region . |
| 14 | ‘ Schubert Dip ’ , Ian tells me , was written at a time of innocence , frivolity and irresponsibility . |
| 15 | Most of her boyfriends have been collected at a time of crisis in their lives , lame ducks , my father calls them , who tend to move on when they have reorganised their existence , not wanting to be taken over . |
| 16 | When a member of the Royal Family becomes pregnant , an announcement is made at a time of their choosing . ’ |
| 17 | Freud may have been writing at a time of increasing urbanisation resulting from rapid industrialisation , but it is not at all clear that his work has any specifically ‘ urban ’ connotations . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Second , demand overload and intractable and complicated problems came at a time of decreased government capacity , effectiveness , and authority . |
| 20 | 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 ] . |
| 21 | The attack , the most audacious IRA operation on the UK mainland since the 1984 Brighton bombing [ see p. 33365 ] , came at a time of heightened security because of threatened terrorist attacks in connection with the Gulf war . |
| 22 | It will issue CDs with a maturity expected to coincide with a liquidity surplus and hold CDs expected to mature at a time of shortage . |
| 23 | To overcome the problem of the softner regenerating at a time of peak demand , it is common practice to install duplex units in service/standby mode . |
| 24 | This is something we said we were going to discuss at a time in the future and I thought I 'd stick it on and see how much time we 'd got left . |
| 25 | In the Soviet Union popular support for the manned space programme was dwindling at a time of great economic hardship and political uncertainty for the majority of the population . |
| 26 | The crash had occurred at a time of clear visibility and good weather conditions . |
| 27 | In opposition , and to some extent isolated at a time of political consensus , Conservative educators like Professor Brian Cox and Dr Rhodes Boyson attracted considerable press attention through the publication of a series of ‘ Black Papers on Education ’ . |
| 28 | Having achieved a degree of fertility , the calves will then be born at a time of reduction in nutritional inputs , and also at the outset of a housing period with all its attendant disease factors . |
| 29 | Typically a multi-speaker recognition system , the only sort that is going to be acceptable to users , will allow between 20 and 30 words to be recognised at a time with a success rate of around 85 to 90% . |
| 30 | The two men were arrested at a time of increasing student political activism , and a renewed government offensive against the supposed communist threat . |