Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] at this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also must have given them much-needed protection , for the seas at this time were tyrannised by the huge , two-metre-long sea scorpions armed with massive claws which fed on the smaller creatures of the sea floor . |
| 2 | At weaning , the lambs should be moved to another safe pasture and an anthelmintic treatment of the lambs at this time is good policy . |
| 3 | The staple diet of the Highlanders at this time was oatmeal porridge , cakes made from barley or stoneground oat-flour , vegetables , milk , butter , eggs and cheese with occasional fish , beef , venison , wild fruits , honey and the famous Scottish soups . |
| 4 | Both were well loaded to Machynlleth , but the bulk of the passengers at this time of year are headed for Aberystwyth and on the Tuesday I was surprised to see a lightly loaded train consisting of two 156 units go on to Pwllheli while the crowd on Machynlleth had to get into a 153 . |
| 5 | Ramon Pidal gives a rounded portrait of the brothers at this time : |
| 6 | No change was made to the livery of the cars at this time . |
| 7 | Some of the saucers at this time had ring handles , either flat or shell-shaped , to facilitate their use . |
| 8 | These cover a period from 1442 to 1560 and obviously do not represent the whole of the villagers at this time , but are of those whose names appear in the index of wills of the Rochester Consistory Court . |
| 9 | But prevailing attitudes towards the Jews at this time among all but a small proportion of the population , discriminatory though they were in different degrees , did not remotely match the anti-Jewish paranoia of Hitler and the activist Jew-baiting elements within the Nazi Movement . |
| 10 | There seemed little support for the students from the workers at this time , who were more concerned with their own problems than abstract calls for democracy . |
| 11 | There is no evidence that the East Saxons under Swaefberht , who seems to have succeeded Offa ( see above p. 124 ) and who died in 738 , and then under Selered ( see Appendix , Fig. 2 ) , who died in 746 ( ASC A , s.a. 746 ) , were anything other than subject to the Mercians at this time and Aethelbald appears to have been master of the land of the Middle Saxons ( CS 182 : S 100 ) . |
| 12 | Are they coming onto your support workers calling on the families at this time to help them erm because this will be the time when the families will need help and also naturally the residents who are normally at the centre , having got used to the centre , as we know , there could be difficulties there and I 'd like to have the please . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that Aethelburh was accompanied north when she married by Paulinus as her chaplain , and that Paulinus was subsequently consecrated bishop of York by Archbishop Justus in 625 or 626 ( HE 11 , 9 ) , Eadwine did not hasten to embrace the new faith and it needs to be emphasized that his eventual baptism was untypical among the Anglo-Saxons at this time . |
| 14 | There was no [ overt ] Dionysiac worship among the Greeks at this time ; and though they must have known of the near-Eastern festivals , the savage excesses of those cults were totally alien to them , at least on a conscious level , and were rejected uncompromisingly . |