Example sentences of "[adj] at [art] time when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , it was seen as too generous at a time when those parties had become more extreme . |
| 2 | I w I I personally er made it clear at the time when they changed the rules er er fairly recently , that I did n't think they should . |
| 3 | A specific terminal must be allocated for use by Offline at the times when an offline run is to be conducted , as defined by the Offline Manager . |
| 4 | ‘ But the renovation and running costs would be high at a time when the council is being threatened with poll-capping and its budget desecrated by government cuts , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Lisa is also incredibly popular at a time when the tide of affection for Diana is turning . |
| 6 | So I mean , we could , we could recruit people in to do it , but the problem there is they 've got to be free at the times when this course runs . |
| 7 | Both would appear increasingly outmoded at a time when technological innovation was presented as indispensable to the modernization of the economy , ‘ the computerization of society ’ . |
| 8 | On this occasion , however , Kaifu had resisted the move , arguing that Cabinet stability and continuity were crucial at a time when the government was under pressure from the impact of the Gulf crisis and from the collapse of the " Uruguay Round " of multinational trade negotiations . |
| 9 | Brownie and Lola were young and defiant at a time when those who went their own way were considered to be delinquent . |
| 10 | To buy a second engraved copy at 24 livres , which was about 5 per cent of the cost of a good harpsichord , would have been extravagant at a time when copying was cheap . |
| 11 | In public hardline rhetoric also seemed appropriate at a time when McCarthy and his communist witch-hunt were riding high . |
| 12 | Further , by wills and settlements , provision may be made for those who may come into existence at a future time , subject to the rule against perpetuities , which forbids any disposition which is not certain to take effect ( if it takes effect at all ) within lives in being and twenty-one years afterwards ; but a life in being includes a person en ventre sa mere at the time when the will or settlement takes effect . |
| 13 | The relationship between the two is not necessarily straightforward ; for example , penal rhetoric might be predominantly positivistic at a time when actual penal practice is predominantly classicistic and deterrent . |
| 14 | This was particularly valuable at a time when the chemical profession was coming to be seen as having different needs and interests from the learned chemical community . |
| 15 | That is valuable at a time when farming is in difficulties . |
| 16 | This Eurocentrism was inevitable at a time when in Europe only European history was at all well known , and Marx 's and Engels 's ‘ general ’ stages often read like little more than a generalized history of western Europe . |
| 17 | And owning two British cars is quite good at a time when our motor industry is being given away to the Japanese , along with assorted golf courses . |
| 18 | No business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business . |
| 19 | No business shall be transacted at any meeting unless a quorum is present at the time when the meeting proceeds to business . |
| 20 | Finally , the Yugoslav government held up payment to the construction enterprises for several more months , and then paid them in dinars at the current rate of exchange , which was considerably worse than the rate applicable at the time when payment was originally due . |
| 21 | Past injustices began to smart all over again , and she felt annoyed with herself for being so self-centred at a time when the family firm appeared to be teetering towards bankruptcy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Not only does it avoid the need for each service to ‘ re-invent the wheel ’ by working in isolation , it also forges closer links — invaluable at a time when the world is becoming smaller and ‘ international standards ’ loom . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What matters is the status of the party as unassisted at the time when he incurred the costs in the proceedings which he seeks to recover . |
| 26 | But two budgets — 1979 , which included a doubling of the standard rate of VAT on many goods and services and 1981 , which was severely deflationary at a time when over two million were out of work — shocked a number of Cabinet ministers . |
| 27 | ‘ The whole exercise is repugnant at a time when the popularity of privatisation is drastically on the wane . |
| 28 | They are particularly important — and problematic at a time when government policy seems to be introducing a serious tension into the local administration of the education service . |
| 29 | The actual rate of completion per annum over the last 27 years has been less than one half of one percent … thus even at several times the projected rate of progress , the great bulk of the conservation task will be incomplete at a time when the most vigorous additional demand is placed on land from massive upsurge of population . |
| 30 | This is particularly important at a time when there is little mobility in the education service . |