Example sentences of "[vb past] at this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 2 | On St Kilda solifluction and the formation of pro-talus ramparts occurred at this time ( Sutherland et al. , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | During one excursion which probably occurred at this time Tom Poole took his friends to Walford 's Gibbet on the Quantock slopes between Holford and Stowey , and there recounted John Walford 's tragic history . |
| 4 | The Waste Land hardly suggests that the inhabitants of the twentieth-century city are conscious actors in fertility rites , but since these , long forgotten , underlie our behaviour , since the ‘ sexual instinct ’ plays a role in ‘ the religion and mythology of primitive peoples ( indeed in all religion ) ’ , and since Christianity and primitive ritual are linked , the poem expresses despair at the change and decay not only of city churches which Eliot visited at this time , but of all belief . |
| 5 | However , Nietzsche 's first editors ( 1895 ) , then his sister ( 1897 ) , and subsequently the world at large have asserted that the scale of this last revision was substantial and , specifically-that of the book 's eventual twenty-five sections , he added at this time the final six ( 20–25 ) , which are partly ( though not , as is often said , largely ) concerned with Wagner . " |
| 6 | He added at this time that the further information was that the occupants of the flat at we were frightened of I also . |
| 7 | Was genuine he added at this time that er the further information was that the occupants of the flat at were frightened of . |
| 8 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 9 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 10 | Villagers said that none ever came at this time of year . |
| 11 | You know the tears came at this time |
| 12 | There were controversies about various forms of Church Government and many sects flourished at this time of religious toleration . |
| 13 | Indeed , the movement for total abstinence from alcohol , which also flourished at this time in Protestant and puritan countries , illustrates this clearly . |
| 14 | The issue between the Roman and the Celtic clergy , however , turned at this time as much if not more on the question of the validity of orders as on the date of Easter or the shape of the tonsure . |
| 15 | Although , as Beaumanoir stated at this time , the magnates were ‘ sovereigns within their baronies ’ , they were supposed to execute the crown 's ordinances — which often meant that they anticipated royal legislation by legislating in their own name for their own domains . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , obsession with the size of public sector borrowing requirements began at this time . |
| 17 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 18 | Possibly the direct effects of war on the Flemish cloth towns , which suffered from the campaigns , may have been a further benefit to English producers ; indeed this may have been a more important factor in the decline of Flanders than the tariff protection enjoyed by England , because the Dutch cloth industry , which used English wool , also developed at this time at the expense of the Flemish . |
| 19 | No major Arab initiative materialized at this time , although the Yugoslav Foreign Minister on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement pursued ideas on lines similar to those explored in December by Algerian President Col. Chadli Bendjedid [ see p. 37927 ] . |
| 20 | By imperial unification they meant at this time a federal union of Britain and the white dominions , a scheme differing little in its essentials from other schemes of imperial union which had occupied the minds of the British political classes from time to time during the latter part of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 22 | Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable . |
| 23 | Transformational rules also , presumably , emerged at this time — at first , perhaps , with mainly abbreviatory effect . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that one reason for Eadwine 's preferential treatment of the Kentish kingdom was the location there of the southern archbishopric at Canterbury , and there certainly emerged at this time a clear intention to implement Pope Gregory the Great 's original plan for two archiepiscopal sees among the Anglo-Saxons . |
| 25 | One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) . |
| 26 | She had eaten much more than she usually did at this time of day . |
| 27 | Oil related activity in the North Sea also increased at this time , and helicopter flights to offshore sites reached record numbers in 1978 . |
| 28 | One of them brings us evidence of how Ramsey appeared at this time to an austere critic . |
| 29 | While acknowledging that there were some schools which had built up a good range of resources and had successfully integrated their school library with the teaching and learning taking place in the school , it appeared at this time that many demonstrated one or all of the following basic problems : |
| 30 | The Oxford lectures which he gave at this time were eventually to be published as The Discarded Image , perhaps the most completely satisfying and impressive book he ever published . |