Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were at this time few , if any , pretentious stations . |
| 2 | Quails ( 16:13 ) : twice a year the common quail 's migration route takes it across the region where the Israelites were at this time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | FRIENDS WERE WORRIED ABOUT HOW POOR THE ASHLEYS WERE AT THIS TIME BUT THE CHILDREN ARE WEARING MATCHING SWEATERS . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Many people were by this time weary of the various attempts to find a satisfactory form of government and they believed the return of the monarchy was the best solution . |
| 11 | Eastern Pomerania , however , the area that was eventually to become the Polish Corridor was 60–100 per cent Polish , while the Pomeranian districts of Lębork and Słupsk were by this time only 0.5–10 per cent Polish . |
| 12 | Because of their involvement with the W family , some of them were by this time quite familiar with the Scottish Office ‘ Effective Intervention ’ document . |
| 13 | After six months Pop was asked to return to Simla to help the Burma Governor , Dorman-Smith , as Director of Public Relations , and to help the Administration and the Army who were by this time getting ready to go back into Burma . |
| 14 | The Czech orchestra were by this time a pretty good ensemble , and have just the right timbre and tonal blend for Dvořák . |
| 15 | Macho and Ulysse were by this time standing upright , concentrating on the movements of the colobus high up in the trees . |
| 16 | Charles and Arthur Wilson were made full partners in 1867 and were by this time effectively running the company , which they transformed from a major European enterprise into an international one with routes to North America and India . |
| 17 | The draughtsmen were by this time becoming separated from the engineers , in that specialization which was such a feature of all aspects of life in the age of science . |
| 18 | Bernard and Laura nearly became victims of their own success at this point ; with the great increase in turnover ( sales were by this time around £100,000 a year ) , the company was falling into the near inevitable trap of a young , fast-growing business . |
| 19 | Obbligato instruments were by this time also being used in much more modest works , such as the Concerti Ecclesiastici ( Venice , 1608 ) of the Ferrarese Archangelo Crotti which actually include a ‘ Sonata sopra Sancta Maria ’ humbly anticipating the famous one in Monteverdi 's Vespers . |
| 20 | Young , single middle class women were by this time engaging in paid work outside the home . |
| 21 | They were by this time descending the stairs , and Mrs Alderley looked about . |
| 22 | Many members of the British cabinet were by this time reluctant to make peace on any terms short of a glorious victory , but after tortuous negotiations Austria , France and Britain agreed the " Four Points " on 27 July / 8 August 1854 . |
| 23 | On the other hand I felt I could scarcely ask you to wait while I dealt with the strawboard — you were by this time I think just on the verge of a few conventional politenesses about my work , an awkward stage in conversations of this sort which is difficult to endure gracefully but which is even more difficult to interrupt . |
| 24 | It was during this time that he was invited to the discussions of the CIV/n group , a gathering of poets of the more serious sort — and to some extent inspired by Ezra Pound 's revitalising energies , even as its name was culled from his writings — who had just launched a new poetry magazine of that name . |
| 25 | Leonard was keen to assert his own lead in that movement , for it was during this time that he was compiling his second book ( five years after the first ) The Spice-Box Of Earth , which was published in 1961 to great critical acclaim . |
| 26 | It was during this time that as a senior staff officer of V Corps he had been involved with some of the orders to repatriate the Russian and Yugoslav prisoners . |
| 27 | It was during this time , moving from one company to another , that Haslam learned the true meaning of what it is to be an adaptable manager . |
| 28 | And it was during this time that he had lost his wife , lost his job , lost his sense of himself as a separate human soul , and in struggle worked out the theory that he was nothing but a sick character in the hands or under the pen of a malevolent Author . |
| 29 | It was during this time , when he was again near to death , than he began writing his best known book The Saint 's Everlasting Rest . |
| 30 | It was during this time that Diana found the Queen to be an ally . |