Example sentences of "it [be] [adv] at this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The concept would be difficult enough if it were only at this level , where we say that music , dance , painting , sculpture , poetry , drama , fiction , film have crucial properties in common , which suffice to distinguish them , as a group , from other human practices . |
| 2 | It 's usually at this stage , it goes horribly wrong . |
| 3 | Incidentally it is just at this point that I find many theologians who enter this field particularly weak ; mainly because what they deduce from a Biblical view is so general ( and sometimes even vague ) that it is of little practical help in choosing between the main alternatives of the world today . |
| 4 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 5 | Yet it is precisely at this point that students — afraid of boring us with repetition — ; search for new material , abandoning their first ideas perhaps for the rest of the piece . |
| 6 | The appropriate tax rates are then applied to calculate the total income tax due and it is only at this stage that the MIRAS system is introduced into the assessment . |
| 7 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |
| 8 | It is only at this point that the style gets locked in . |
| 9 | It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence . |
| 10 | It is perhaps at this stage of our spiritual pilgrimage that we begin to develop an appetite for reading the Bible devotionally — that is , out of love for God . |
| 11 | It was generally at this time that the user began to think about ‘ coming off ’ and the , usually long , association with the various medical and social agencies began . |
| 12 | It was also at this time that Elizabeth was first invited to a ‘ very simple luncheon ’ at Braemar Mansions . |
| 13 | Suspicions were easily aroused , for it was also at this time that Britain announced its desire to reduce the number of its troops stationed in West Germany under the WEU agreement , as part of its switch to a nuclear-based defence . |
| 14 | It was also at this time that the Hwicce ( and possibly other border peoples such as the Magonsaete and Wreocensaete ) were brought more completely under Mercian control . |
| 15 | It was also at this time that there occurred the " inversion " of Voigt 's Randtroge or marginal troughs in northern , extra-Alpine Europe . |
| 16 | And it was also at this time , erm partly under the influence of war , partly no doubt under the influence of Freud , he began to become very much more conscious of the ugly , destructive patterns of unconscious motivation , which underlie the decorous surface of civilized life . |
| 17 | It was also at this stage of increasing daily use and possibly injecting that family relationships generally became strained and in many cases reached breaking point . |
| 18 | Unfortunately it was just at this time that Tyndale 's unfavourable comments on the royal divorce came to the King 's attention , and Vaughan was sharply told to end the discussions . |
| 19 | It was just at this moment that the fisherman was trying to escape from the sea-king 's palace , struggling , with the golden cradle in his arms , to swim up through the great weight of sea that lay like a dome above . |
| 20 | It was precisely at this time that the Chinese were having to obtain supplies as tribute or by way of trade from the southernmost provinces of the empire or from Java and Sumatra . |
| 21 | In 1963 the personal spending of the elderly amounted to 9 per cent of GNP ; it was still at this level by the late 1970s and was up only to 10.8 per cent by 1983 . |
| 22 | It was almost at this moment , too , that the door was thrust open and the indignant lady stood within it and in a loud voice proclaimed in her most officious manner : ‘ When you have come to yourself enough to apologise , Peggy , I 'll see you upstairs in my room . |
| 23 | It was roughly at this time that the Clean-up TV Campaign was launched . |
| 24 | It was only at this stage , when representatives from different professional and administrative structures began to be consulted , that official worry and concern about the scale of heroin use began to take shape . |
| 25 | It was only at this stage that the dowry of the bride , which would usually have included both jewels and the title deeds to land , was actually handed over by the bride 's parents though details of the dowry would have been settled right at the beginning at Stage 1 of the proceedings . |
| 26 | It was only at this point that CNN complied with the restraining order and ceased broadcasting excerpts from the tapes pending an appeal to the Supreme Court . |
| 27 | The fact that it is only at puberty that initiation occurs today and that it was only at this age that young males came to pose a threat to the peace and stability of early human societies seems to have had , quite apart from its evident social and psychological consequences , important physiological ones as well . |