Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leigh had made it clear to Olivier during this time of her mental illness that she no longer loved him , and Olivier was well aware that his wife wanted to be with Finchie . |
| 2 | What about private transport in Caldmore about this time , how was , what was that ? |
| 3 | So I think he 's sitting there in Wolverhampton about this time wondering what on earth he is |
| 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 | ( 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 . ) |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Abrams explained this in terms of a particular configuration of economic factors affecting the United States at this time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | De Klerk 's action in freeing Mandela at this time , after years of international pressure for his release ( particularly around the time of his 70th birthday in 1988 ) was seen as an acknowledgement of the urgent need for the government to open negotiations with legitimate black leaders , in response to the ANC 's Harare Declaration of August 1989 when it set out its own proposals for political change in South Africa [ see p. 36837 ; see p. 37176 for recent communications between Mandela and de Klerk on this issue ] . |
| 13 | These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald . |
| 14 | In many ways the most valuable product of the Weald at this time was timber , much of which was exported as sawn wood and fuel . |
| 15 | Every Saturday at this time . |
| 16 | Even so , most of the pottery made in Crete at this time , including Knossos itself , was rather carelessly decorated . |
| 17 | Leslie Phillips speaks affectionately of Ken at this time . |
| 18 | But memories of Ken at this time still tend to revolve more around the fun . |
| 19 | Indeed there are things which suggest that not only did vase-painting at Athens in this time move pari passu with free painting and sculpture but that the same person may sometimes have worked in more than one of the three crafts . |
| 20 | These ambiguities in the narrative ( which perhaps find some analogy in the conventions of tragedy as composed at Athens in this time ) correspond to the ambiguities in the spatial conception , oddly ( to our eyes ) combined with the interest in naturalism . |
| 21 | Moreover , in none of these surviving volumes is there any sign of interest or skill in the rapidly developing scholastic disciplines of northern France and Lorraine at this time . |
| 22 | One pet scheme in Washington at this time was for an international board to supervise the running of the canal . |
| 23 | In the absence of evidence of valuable raw materials being extracted in England at this time , both explanations remain possible . |
| 24 | There are other potential imports which are less apparent ; mercury , for instance , was used to gild at least some of the metalwork in England at this time ( Oddy 1980 ) . |
| 25 | But , just as there is evidence that Group VI axes were being quarried from the parent rock , there is some evidence of contact between south-west Scotland and eastern England at this time , which may explain why at least some of the whetstones have been transported up to 400 km from the parent rock . |
| 26 | The overseas economy of Kent was the most developed in early Anglo-Saxon England ; so strong is this overseas flavour of the Kentish economy and its society ; that it can almost be seen as part of the Continent rather than the rest of England at this time . |
| 27 | The affinity between France and England at this time could be illustrated by the fact that the diplomatic representatives of both kingdoms studied at Paris . |
| 28 | In England at this time it was quite avant garde to possess a refrigerator . |
| 29 | 730 onwards , this could have been a factor in the aggressive policies of Aethelbald in southern England at this time . |
| 30 | A Kentish hegemony in south-east England at this time is not , therefore , wholly out of the question , and Offa 's intention in intervening in 784–5 and thereafter may have been to gain mastery of it and contain it . |