Example sentences of "[det] [verb] at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was little understanding at the time of how much work was required to develop high-quality screenplays . |
| 2 | This occurred at a time when the militancy of rank-and-file officers increased . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This occurred at a time when the future of the Harwell Laboratory , AEA 's main research establishment , had come under review . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This happened at a time when the ice had , so to speak , sucked up much of the sea . |
| 10 | This happened at the time when the long bow was finally succeeded by the musket and pike . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The gaunt picture on the back tells a story that few understood at the time : Marley was being eaten by cancer . |
| 13 | Then , there is the real possibility that a serious defeat for the government could result in a general election and , under the British system , the opposition , just as much as the government , would prefer this to happen at a time favourable to themselves . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | This comes at a time when some Western governments are questioning the standard hard-line attitude always taken by British and American leaders and certainly in West Germany there is a growing feeling towards more direct contact with Moscow and less reliance on America 's nuclear stockpile . |
| 16 | Paradoxically , this comes at a time when both the Conservative Government and the police themselves are much more cautious about the potential contribution of policing . |
| 17 | This comes at a time when staff contracts are changing . |
| 18 | This comes at a time when many advanced economies are undergoing profound structural change , with technological change , the growth in importance of the service sector and the growing internationalisation of production . |
| 19 | Apparently they do a commemorative gig every year at the same pub where we were all based at the time . ’ |
| 20 | I was only a boy then , and it all began at the time my father owned the Admiral Benbow inn , at Black Hill Cove . |
| 21 | Yet the Commonwealth was after all invented at a time when the British were more than ever enamoured of their capacity for effecting the bloodless obedience of subject peoples . |
| 22 | As many observed at the time , the question could have similarly been asked nearly fifty years earlier with regard to the relative lack of support for the 1926 General Strike in the same county : as Sunley ( 1990 ) describes the two geographies , they have ‘ striking parallels ’ . |
| 23 | British culture can often be fiercely nationalistic , as we all saw at the time of the Falklands war . |
| 24 | This , as many said at the time , was not a function which judges and courts could perform successfully . |
| 25 | Of course this was all photographed at the time , and they found the oldest plough in Europe . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The analysis showed that there were many similarities between the activities that are systemically desirable and those undertaken at the time of the study , but highlighted certain aspects of the organisation that needed strengthening to allow the Colleges to become more self-supporting once the ERA took effect . |
| 28 | There are other texts which answer different needs , both our own and those living at the time the texts were produced . |
| 29 | If we define them simply , primary sources are those written at the time by someone usually connected with the event . |
| 30 | I simply stopped because I did n't have anything more to say at the time . |