Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] at [art] time " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 9 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Of the 16 patients , three died at the time of their first hospital admission and five died subsequently . |
| 13 | I was only a boy then , and it all began at the time my father owned the Admiral Benbow inn , at Black Hill Cove . |
| 14 | British culture can often be fiercely nationalistic , as we all saw at the time of the Falklands war . |
| 15 | This , as many said at the time , was not a function which judges and courts could perform successfully . |
| 16 | I went from a er boy 's school and all that that implied at the time in England , strict discipline , uniforms , that sort of thing , to er High School , a mixed High School in Ohio where the atmosphere was totally different , much more relaxed , much more friendly . |
| 17 | Analysts had been bullish on the indicator ahead of the announcement , but in the event , the US Semiconductor Industry Association 's book-to-bill ratio for February fell to a still very healthy 1.18 , from 1.20 in January , the latter figure revised upwards from the 1.19 reported at the time . |
| 18 | Yet those elements you mention were true to the life most young people in particular knew at the time . |
| 19 | Purporting to describe the end of the world ( ‘ 1984 ’ ) , one of the track titles , was the chosen dat ) and sprawling wildly across musical styles , some might call this album preposterous ( several did at the time ) . |
| 20 | Purporting to describe the end of the world ( ‘ 1984 ’ ) , one of the track titles , was the chosen dat ) and sprawling wildly across musical styles , some might call this album preposterous ( several did at the time ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |