Example sentences of "[be] at this time " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth . |
2 | Harriet drove her to the local hospital as soon as the pains started in mid-afternoon and , knowing how hazardous the road back in the dark could be at this time of the year , brought an overnight bag so that she could stay at a nearby hotel . |
3 | Whoever could it be at this time of night ? |
4 | There were at this time few , if any , pretentious stations . |
5 | Quails ( 16:13 ) : twice a year the common quail 's migration route takes it across the region where the Israelites were at this time . |
6 | They were at this time boycotting the Security Council in protest at the UN refusal to replace Taiwan by Communist China ; hence there was no Soviet veto on sending UN forces to support South Korea . |
7 | Though all were to achieve success , Oliver as a poet , Bruce as picture journalist and Jeffrey as sports journalist and author of The Spectator 's column , ‘ Low Life ’ , they were at this time a little like characters out of a Chekhov play , searching and bewildered . |
8 | There were at this time close links between the College and the Academy , but this alone does not explain why this Bohemian hoped to be honoured by an institution that many leading artists , among them Henry Moore , Bacon and Freud , regarded with scorn . |
9 | It appeared that Princess Anne was not one of her admirers , and though Princess Anne 's views were at this time usually rather criticised this was something for the press to get its teeth into . |
10 | FRIENDS WERE WORRIED ABOUT HOW POOR THE ASHLEYS WERE AT THIS TIME BUT THE CHILDREN ARE WEARING MATCHING SWEATERS . |
11 | All the Duchamp brothers were at this time passionately interested in mathematics ; Jacques Villon was engaged in reading Leonardo 's Trattato della Pittura , while Marcel Duchamp was a close friend of an amateur mathematician named Maurice Princet , so that it is not surprising that they should have been responsible for introducing a more scientific note into Cubist discussions . |
12 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
13 | It may have been at this time that the name Saladin began to mean something to him . |
14 | Salmon , who was an intimate friend of Picasso 's at this time , described a few years later his restless state of mind : ‘ Picasso was unsettled . |
15 | The Spanish writer Gomez de la Serna , a friend of Picasso 's at this time and an habitué of the Bateau Lavoir during his visits to Paris , recalls that Picasso 's walls there were decorated with reproductions of El Grecos . |
16 | It is at this time that the characteristic tapping sound which gives the beetle its name can be heard . |
17 | Now the Chancellor is at this time usually an ecclesiastic , commonly a bishop , and , as such , interested in , and , at least in his own opinion , a good judge of questions of morality or ‘ conscience ’ . |
18 | It is at this time that the trident became a regular part of her iconography , specifically after the great victory of the Earl of Howe at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794 ; shortly thereafter , from the early nineteenth century , she is also regularly shown as wearing a helmet . |
19 | ‘ Never is at this time , sir . |
20 | It is at this time that some do-gooders may make all kinds of suggestions . |
21 | Perhaps we could go back still further , to the event of her own birth , and even into an intra-uterine existence , for it is at this time that the ovaries and all the eggs are formed in the female . |
22 | It was safer to hire soldiers as well and it is at this time that we first come across the name Mercadier , a name that from now on was to be closely linked with Richard 's . |
23 | No inset within the greenbelt is in existence for the area , which is at this time washed-over by the greenbelt . |
24 | The way forward then is to recruit , and the importance of new members was never more critical than it is at this time . |
25 | But there usually is at this time of year anyway . |
26 | ‘ How beautiful it is at this time of the year . ’ |
27 | No there never is at this time of day , there is n't news |
28 | It was at this time that Diderot , who often strolled into the artists ' studios , paid a visit to David , and saw a picture which the artist was just finishing . |
29 | Ironically , it was at this time that Ezra Pound , who had been arrested and imprisoned for treason , was examined by four prominent psychologists and judged to be insane . |
30 | Henry Newbolt was at this time Hewlett 's neighbour in Wiltshire , and it seems to have been at this Christmas time that Hewlett took Pound to see Newbolt , who figures elsewhere in Canto 80 : |