Example sentences of "time when the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first dates back two and a half thousand years to the time when the Persians were at war with the Egyptians . |
| 2 | This was at a time when the rest of the world , following the American lead , was developing a clear preference for water-cooled designs . |
| 3 | Yet at a time when the rest of the industrialized world is moving towards a forty hour week , women , many of whom may work at least eighty hours per week , are encouraged to regard this as not being work . |
| 4 | Not at a time when the rest of Germany is in turmoil , when the economy is struggling . ’ |
| 5 | Those of us who have criticised the Government 's and western nations ' lack of urgency in providing appropriate assistance to the Soviet Union will also welcome the new steps and the energy that is being shown in this area If , as the Prime Minister rightly says , the protection of non-proliferation is the absolute key to world peace , why are the Government seeking to increase the number of nuclear warheads that are carried on Trident , when they have the option of keeping the number the same , at a time when the rest of the world is decreasing them ? |
| 6 | While this was a huge boost to such manufacturers as Acorn and Research Machines , it meant that British schools still found themselves committed to relatively basic , 8-bit technology at a time when the rest of Europe was establishing a base of more powerful 16-bit MS-DOS technology . |
| 7 | Now at a time when the rest of Europe is moving towards providing all sorts of extra services for parents and children , we in Scotland seem to be going backwards . |
| 8 | ‘ Labour says too many people go to prison at a time when the public believes more people should be put in custody , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He emphasizes that this was a time when the significance of the ‘ economic security and social esteem hitherto associated with membership ’ was declining . |
| 10 | During the summer of 1988 , just about the time when the Clause was becoming law , an English gay novel was published to widespread acclaim . |
| 11 | Direct light came onto the sill and jambs of the embrasure at about the time when the noises of wheels and voices from the street were at their loudest . |
| 12 | ‘ We were in a Stockton recording studio at the time when the MMB asked the guy who runs it for ideas of music and we were suggested , ’ says Meadows who with schooldays chum Anthony Roe are the lead vocals . |
| 13 | It may be no coincidence that the occasion of this shift in distribution was also the time when the devaluation of the gold had become serious . |
| 14 | He gambled at a time when the Mob ran gaming , and he never expected to lose . |
| 15 | Hence there were a considerable number of able and committed prophets around at a time when the gospel they were spreading — a gospel of modernity — was one which their auditors were anxious to hear . |
| 16 | This problem is more likely to arise at a time when the patient is unconscious and can not be consulted . |
| 17 | Ostenecrosis was mentioned for the first time when the patient was seen by an orthopaedic surgeon with new radiographs ( see Figs 1 and 3 ) 30 months after the first bowel symptoms . |
| 18 | This , we hoped , would permit us to see the various stages of the project in operation from the time when a school began to plan its proposal to the time when the materials purchased with project funds were already in use . |
| 19 | Mr Justice Vinelott , allowing the inspector 's appeal , said that the question of uncertainty in relation to s 247(8) could not be determined by reference to the inspector 's state of mind at the time when the assessment was made . |
| 20 | It 's the time when the final pellets of vanity accumulate into a cyst , when the self starts up its last pathetic murmur of ‘ Remember me , remember me … ‘ ; it 's the time when the autobiographies get written , the last boasts are made , and the memories which no one else 's brain still holds are written down with a false idea of value . |
| 21 | For example , one can calculate the probability that the universe is expanding at nearly the same rate in all different directions at a time when the density of the universe has its present value . |
| 22 | Now , on top of everything else , she looked like something the cat had dragged in , and she had n't even brought a change of clothes with her , having planned to return to the Sheffield hotel to collect her luggage and settle her bill at a time when the actors would be at the theatre . |
| 23 | However , at a time when the Tour was attempting to extend the early part of the year 's schedule , players had to be tolerant , added Schofield . |
| 24 | The very diversity of the Scottish experience , from the views and activities of the constitutional suffragist , Bady Frances Balfour , to the continuing connection in Glasgow between the working-class suffragettes and the Independent Labour Party ( at a time when the WSPU in England had become very middle class ) makes it particularly worth studying . |
| 25 | It is marked out not just by virtuosity and weight of tone ( there was a time when the Leningrad Philharmonic could have supplied front-desk players to virtually every other top-class orchestra in the world ) but also by an astonishing unity of expressive purpose . |
| 26 | The charges included his acceptance of a commission following the completion of SOMISA 's purchase , at well above market prices , of new offices which were then lavishly decorated at a time when the state company 's workforce was being dramatically reduced in preparation for its privatization in 1992 [ see p. 38527 ] . |
| 27 | If the fish is to be saved , the abstraction will have to be cut back significantly , at a time when the state is only beginning to emerge from seven years of drought . |
| 28 | Like the time when the school bully threw the dreaded challenge at me : ‘ See me up the lane at 4 o'clock . |
| 29 | At a time when the school curriculum is becoming increasingly prescriptive , when there seems less flexibility than there used to be , it might seem difficult to set up collaborative teaching projects . |
| 30 | Whereas the older ‘ career ’ users served their ‘ apprenticeship ’ at a time when the majority of users also injected , this fund of knowledge was not readily available to the new users . |