Example sentences of "in a time [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to insufficient budget in a time of deep recession we now realise that TECs are facing an unmanageable task . |
| 2 | In early September Collor had summoned for the first time the Council of the Republic , whose remit was to advise the President on action to be taken in a time of deep crisis or emergency , including the declaration of a state of siege if necessary . |
| 3 | Therefore , in a time of radical change in systems of community care , care programming will inevitably have to wait its turn , and may even have to prove its worth before it is adopted fully by health and social services . |
| 4 | ‘ The celebrations which took place to mark the centenary of the Diocese in 1978 took place in a time of great change . |
| 5 | The concentration of punitive attention on more serious and violent offenders is an ‘ attempt to reassert an agreed conscience collective , or other kind of consensus , in a time of great social and moral doubt and confusion . |
| 6 | A return to relationship banking , particularly longer-term relationships , in a time of great changes for the banks was called for by Sir Jeremy Morse KCMG , FCIB , in his address . |
| 7 | SSDs will inevitably have problems meeting their obligations in a time of ever-tightening budgets . |
| 8 | In a time of economic recession such as that of the early 1990s , there is a strong case not only for low interest rates but also for increased public expenditure , especially on roads , bridges , airports and other civic needs , and on unemployment compensation and welfare payments , all to employ or protect the unemployed and those otherwise adversely affected . |
| 9 | Such a choice accords with both the political traditions of the area and the perceived need for a strong , decisive executive in a time of economic , social and political turmoil . |
| 10 | And that is why fashion at any level needs to capture the imagination , most particularly in a time of economic recession when the consumer is likely to have priorities more urgent than a new frock . |
| 11 | Already by 1890 there had been a big improvement in the relations of the Papacy with governments conscious of Roman Catholicism 's contribution to social order in a time of revolutionary fears . |
| 12 | Lammert is also keen to shorten the stay of each student at university , but is aware of how difficult and unpopular this would be in a time of high unemployment . |
| 13 | Having been issued in another era , all of these stocks have low coupon rates ( from 2 ½%; to 4% ) and hence their market value in a time of high nominal interest rates tends to be low . |
| 14 | This very high participation rate was due to the fast turnover in membership , especially of the chairmen , who were very poorly paid in a time of rapid inflation . |
| 15 | But in a time of rapid change it is difficult always to separate the two . |
| 16 | The reassertion and manipulation of ‘ traditional ’ values to maintain continuity in a time of rapid change and to preserve national identity and order have frequently been undertaken by countries facing an external ( or internal ) threat . |
| 17 | Now , d do n't forget index-linking is not the same as salary increases , and in a time of rapid inflation , prices go up , salaries go up , and the government can interfere in any way it wants with the R P I index . |
| 18 | There 's a sense in which I think you are saying something which I 've often heard people say recently , and that is that in a day , in a time of rapid change , we personally and collectively need to make sense of where we 're going , our futures , in terms of our past . |
| 19 | Fellowship is not to be confined to congregations , but is essential within and between denominations , and in a time of growing ecumenical co-operation we rejoice that churches are beginning to share their liturgical and musical riches with each other . |
| 20 | These demand changes have been one source of the escalating costs of voluntary and private residential child care and this escalating cost has , in a time of severe fiscal constraint , itself contributed to a further fall in the demand for contracted out places by local authorities . |
| 21 | In a time of severe agricultural depression , for example , the landlord might do better to allow his tenant farmers to go into arrears rather than exercise his legal rights , in the hope that over time things would balance out . |
| 22 | To sum up : in a time of unprecedented expansion of world trade Britain , the nation of shopkeepers , paid itself higher wages for producing very little more , while putting up its prices much faster than its competitors . |
| 23 | Thus , especially in a time of unsettled orthography , it is extremely likely that current sound-changes will be admitted into writing , whatever the historical origins of the writing conventions may be . |
| 24 | However , in a time of social change in terms of increasing unemployment and changes in family structure , there is a need to investigate the development and stability of the self image in terms of the impact of social deprivation . |
| 25 | The thinking is that , in a time of fierce economic and social change in Westernised economies , all companies — from home-based one man/woman bands to the ICIs and IBMs — are having to adapt to new organisational structures and ways of working . |
| 26 | If , in a time of reduced employment opportunities , unemployed people rather than more traditional seasonal workers are filling a share of seasonal jobs , and if they develop a pattern of working in this fashion , they could be penalised by these regulations ( see Hansard , 4/2/87 ) . |
| 27 | The Mallaby Committee concentrated on the problems presented for local government recruitment in a time of full employment and a declining number of eighteen-year-olds entering the labour market . |