Example sentences of "[verb] just at the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains a subject of some curiosity that this apparently exceptional event occurred just at the time that the Greenpeace boat was moored offshore . |
| 2 | Mr Rikanovic almost certainly knew nothing about Swiss law , by which anyone holding an item publicly for three years without judgment against him acquires title , but it is interesting that the visit occurred just at the time when Lord Northampton sought to have the ownership dispute heard by the Swiss courts . |
| 3 | The success of Alain Aspect 's team in confirming experimentally one of the more subtle predictions of the theory ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 17 ) came just at the time when , in an echo of the great days of J. G. Crowther , The Guardian published Terry Clark 's report of an experiment in which a macroscopic object can be made to behave , in some respects , like a single quantum ‘ particle ’ , and when these weighty tomes arrived for review . |
| 4 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 5 | It happened just at the time when the Tuscan peasants were abandoning their land to go and work in the factories . |
| 6 | The army which set out to recover Berwick from the Scots in July 1319 was some 14,000 strong , but it ended with a humiliating retreat and flight into England ; undoubtedly the Scottish outflanking movement which penetrated deep into England was the major contributor to this disaster , but acrimony between Lancaster and Edward may have helped bring it about and was certainly magnified by it , so that afterwards the relations of the two men rapidly deteriorated just at the time when Despenser the younger was antagonizing other magnates as well . |
| 7 | He wrote just at the time when English was becoming an established literary language and with a felicity which later caused most of his translation — perhaps 75 per cent — to be retained in the King James Bible , the authorised version for 300 years . |