Example sentences of "time when [noun] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The poor rate was the largest direct tax paid by most rate payers at a time when income tax was levied only on incomes above £150 p.a. and was paid by all householders , many of them themselves poor . |
| 2 | They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent . |
| 3 | They were art students at the time when art college was the bolthole for all the drug-deranged bongo bashers , paint flingers , crappy experimental film-makers and fanny dancers who thought being a student was a great doss but they were f—ed if they were going to read any books . |
| 4 | In the early 1980s , at a time when manufacturing industry was collapsing and the outlook for the unskilled looked particularly bleak , frustration boiled over in a series of riots in London , Bristol , Birmingham , Liverpool , and elsewhere . |
| 5 | We 've said it before , we 'll say it again ; playing with right-wing nationalism at a time when refugees area being murdered in Germany , when people are being put in camps and ‘ ethnically cleansed ’ in Serbia , and when people here are being attacked for being black is stupid and dangerous . |
| 6 | For my part , I welcomed the temporary relief from an added pressure of numbers and new problems at a time when Banbury School was in its infancy . |
| 7 | He also obtained the ends of newspaper rolls from Peckham Press , at a time when cartridge paper was rationed , and encouraged his pupils to draw on a large scale . |
| 8 | There was no understanding here of my intentions in a body of work that ventured into the unfashionable field of Romanticism , an exaggeratedly retinal approach , at a time when Concept Art was the rage . |
| 9 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |
| 10 | At a time when computer technology was advancing rapidly and any given computer-based business management system tended to be technically obsolescent in a short time , a company made a reasonable decision that all such computers would be depreciated at 50 per cent per annum , making prudent financial provision against their short useful lives . |
| 11 | At a time when computer technology was advancing rapidly and any given computer-based business management system tended to be technically obsolescent in a short time , a company made a reasonable decision that all such computers would be depreciated at 50 per cent per annum , making prudent financial provision against their short useful lives . |
| 12 | I only comment that , at a time when Community law is becoming increasingly important , it would be strange if the right of the citizen to recover overpaid charges were to be more restricted under domestic law than it is under European law . |
| 13 | His father had thought it would be a good idea to ask for the boats to be blessed at a time when Whitby Harbour was crowded with the big Scottish fleet which was following the herring as they moved south . |
| 14 | In academic writings it is probably more common to look to an earlier period as the time when family solidarity was of prime importance . |
| 15 | Moreover , most of the Greek fleet is in the bulk trade , at a time when merchant shipping is becoming increasingly specialised : you now need chemical-carriers , food-carriers , and so on . |