Example sentences of "[noun] at this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just how strongly Eliot was spurred on to emphasize the connections between sex and religion at this time is seen in ‘ The Hippopotamus ’ ( 1917 ) which contains one of his most shocking jokes : |
| 2 | Excessive speed at this time can be dangerous in rough air if the pilot is pulling back hard . |
| 3 | English language scholarship at this time failed to reflect the broad range of Japanese language scholarship , in particular the strong Marxist influence on interpretation and conceptualization . |
| 4 | It would be difficult to find more suitable candidates for postmodern metafictionality than the novels of Simon and Robbe-Grillet at this time . |
| 5 | Two important exhibitions re-established the reputation of the association at this time : The Women of Today in 1929 and The Child in 1930 . |
| 6 | Together with some dinosaurs , perhaps , and with birds , which also emerged from a different reptilian stock at this time , they developed the capacity for regulating their own body temperature . |
| 7 | ( There was in truth not much happening in Fontanellato at this time , and although we heard news of the partisans we never knew where they were . ) |
| 8 | There certainly were Adventurers ( i.e. mine operators ) on the Coniston Manor at this time . |
| 9 | This ability was sharpened by these players ' meetings , which were a unique feature of football at this time . |
| 10 | Figures given in various reports and signals at this time range from " 20,000 " to " 30,000 " to " 40,000 " ( it was not until 18 May that a reasonably accurate total was available ) . |
| 11 | The Charles Bal , which was at its closest to the volcano at this time , reported : . |
| 12 | Ramon Pidal gives a rounded portrait of the brothers at this time : |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the NME offices at this time were dominated by sad , prematurely middle-aged post-modernist bores , sneering at anything enthusiastic of smacking of the political in pop . |
| 14 | Just before the meeting delegates were delighted to hear that PHPA had decided that the main emphasis for both species of Indonesian rhinos ( Javan and Sumatran ) would be in situ conservation and that there should be no captive-breeding programme for Javan rhinos at this time , a view endorsed by the workshop . |
| 15 | By combining information on ships and shipowners found in the Liverpool Plantation Registers with material on the voyages of the same ships to Africa and the Americas gleaned from other trade and shipping records , it is possible to reconstruct in considerable depth a major port 's involvement in the Atlantic trades at this time , and to begin to assess their impact on economic change in its hinterland . |
| 16 | Edgar 's male chauvinism ( though this was a phrase not yet current ) and his expectation that his work was always , would always be of greater importance , than her own — these were aspects of their mutual dissatisfaction , no doubt , although both were , decades later , to concede that Edgar at this time was paying a high psychological price for having renounced his theatrical ambitions ( old Cambridge friends of his already had their names in lights in the West End , while he was a mere house officer ) and that Liz was still suffering from the trauma of confronting her mother with her total , final defection . |
| 17 | Thomasina at this time was fussing around the table . |
| 18 | In its promotion of conjoint nationalism and communism the League resembled the Kuomintang at this time : and it lasted only as long as the Kuomintang managed to contain the two movements . |
| 19 | The conflict was an ‘ absolutely senseless ’ one , according to Brezhnev at this time , and the USSR initially took a broadly neutral position , hoping to retain the alliance with Iraq but at the same time not to alienate the new and anti-Western Khomeini government in Iran . |
| 20 | The ubiquity of the Jewish theme in his public addresses at this time makes it impossible to imagine that early converts to Nazism could fail to regard violent anti-Semitism as a leading feature of Hitler 's image . |
| 21 | This can cause confusion at this time of year for naturalists trying to identify the sex of damselflies . |
| 22 | to keep to keep the the members of Council from their collective tea at this time of the evening , but my group feels it is necessary to put forward the people of the acute financial situation of this Council , a situation which is deteriorating rapidly , and began to deteriorate in May last year , May 1990 . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , if you do n't have a visitor on your roof at this time of year , it probably means you 've been naughty , not nice . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Was the , wh were there trade unions in , in , in the Transport Department at this time , were they quite active ? |
| 26 | The aggressive reaction in favour of Sacheverell at this time , however , should not obscure the fact that the whole affair merely served to fuel religious tensions which already existed in many parts of the country . |
| 27 | The Director of Highways has stated that there are insufficient funds at this time for the provision of a pedestrian refuge island between Baberton and Foulis Crescent . |
| 28 | Yet in the States at this time there was a real explosion of sexual activity , of public sexual activity , the development of gay saunas , the development of sexually explicit magazines ; there was a huge migration , really , to New York , San Francisco , Los Angeles by gay people , a whole burgeoning of a literature and expression of new sexual activities which I do n't think was really echoed to the same extent until quite late in the seventies in this country . |
| 29 | Abrams explained this in terms of a particular configuration of economic factors affecting the United States at this time . |
| 30 | As the US Joint Chiefs of Staff commented on 22 October 1951 : The security interests of the United States at this time would be greatly benefited if the British Commonwealth of Nations could achieve once more a state of political and military solidarity under strong and effective leadership by the United Kingdom ; failing this , wholehearted support of United States military policies must be obtained from the several members of the British Commonwealth through other means . |