Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the time when " in BNC.
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| 1 | Growth in the size of the legal profession occurred during the time when consumer movements were coming of age . |
| 2 | All that came from the time when Central News was transmitted from Birmingham . |
| 3 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
| 4 | It was also during this period that primitive man undoubtedly arrived at the time when he was able to communicate with his fellows with developing abilities more effective than those available to the rest of living creatures . |
| 5 | Only fourteen comprehensive schools existed at the time when Tony Crosland was writing : good grammar schools could not simply be swept away , nor the rights and duties of Local Education Authorities brushed aside . |
| 6 | … Whatever be the true view with regard to the act or neglect , I think that the appellant is entitled to say that the respondents ' ‘ default giving rise to the action ’ existed at the time when he suffered his injuries . |
| 7 | But because the scandal broke at the time when one of the most popular pastimes in Yugoslavia was hunting for the scalps of former politicians , the moment the British press reported the involvement of Yugoslav diplomats , Tito 's family and the Yugoslav National Army , the silver became interesting . |
| 8 | Still no acknowledgement was made and it grew near the time when Gigia would be setting out on her journey . |
| 9 | Gist of this intelligence ( with , of course , the utmost care to protect its source ) must have been conveyed to all regional commands in the United Kingdom , and from there filtered downward , for this moment coincided with the time when Leslie declared his willingness to perform almost any task in order to help repel invaders . |
| 10 | I suppose it 's probably because his time at Leeds coincided with the time when I used to go to see them most frequently . |
| 11 | In his novel The Human Age , D. B. Wyndham Lewis postulates the theory that after death , as we stand on that other shore , at the gate of eternity , we will each one assume the shape and form which we had at the time when we best realised our essential selves . |