Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This occurred at a time when the militancy of rank-and-file officers increased . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This occurred at a time when the future of the Harwell Laboratory , AEA 's main research establishment , had come under review . |
| 4 | For example , this occurred at the start of the new Vineyard churches in England , but there is of course biblical precedent in the case of the tent making Paul ! |
| 5 | One has to ask whether different pressure groups within the Roman Church became equally hostile to Galileo , or whether , as some believed at the time , he was a victim of a Jesuit plot — of an act of revenge for insults he had meted out to prominent members of that order . |
| 6 | You want this added at the end of roman numeral four . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This came at a time when all Latin American countries had adopted policies of export-orientated growth , economic liberalization , financial deregulation and the dismantling of investment restrictions and trade barriers . |
| 9 | This came at a time when several years of large oil-revenue increases had created an exceptionally propitious atmosphere for reaching some kind of understanding . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , some baulked at the idea of having to take on what was perceived as a statutory audit role . |
| 11 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 12 | This happened at a turning-point in Caribbean affairs , for in 1670 the Spanish accepted the inevitable and by the Treaty of Madrid acknowledged the English colonies in the West Indies as legitimate settlements , though the logging settlements on the central American mainland were left in an ill-defined position . |
| 13 | However this happened at the end of a fraught week . |
| 14 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
| 15 | Well er to me it does n't quite ring true , it 's always been the boys ' ploughing match and it always will be as far as I 'm concerned but I think this happened at the time post war I ca n't say exactly which year , when the date was changed from easter time to August . |
| 16 | The very low values of NO 2 observed at the end of autumn and the beginning of spring imply that the NO x reservoir is almost empty , with the remaining fraction lying at altitudes above the ozone depletion region . |
| 17 | In the questionnaire a number of strategies were listed which had been cited by the teachers interviewed during its development , together with some included at the request of the LEA . |
| 18 | This started at the centre line of Crampton Road and although most of the interlaced track was in Tramway No. 15 , the first few yards were in Tramway 16 . |
| 19 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 20 | This struck at the root of the idea that nobody need be poor if they conscientiously engaged in economic activity . |
| 21 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 22 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |
| 23 | Using this technique required one camera pointed at the live set , another pointed at an easel bearing a large , mounted photograph a caption slide . |
| 24 | No longer the prop of an unjust social order , the God of the Magnificat was to be found on the side of the poor while the mighty trembled at the prospect of being toppled from their insecure thrones . |
| 25 | His second came at the ticket booth , where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to . |
| 26 | Negotiations to renew Lome III opened at a meeting of EC and ACP ministers in Luxembourg on Oct. 12-13 , 1988 , following a preparatory meeting in Mauritius on May 10-11 ( see p. 35737 ) . |
| 27 | Soapy looked at the policeman . |
| 28 | The first pack concentrated on the individual 's renewal of personal faith , the second looked at the need for the Church itself to be open to , and continually responsive to the message of Christ through growth , development and change from within . |
| 29 | Then one day , when I visited the hospital by chance — Alec was ‘ on duty ’ — a boy of eight arrived at the surgery , carried by his father . |
| 30 | That happened at a couple of other people . |