Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Baxter by this time was at the peak of his ability as a preacher . |
| 2 | And Alvar Fañez at this time issued out from ambush , and fell upon them , on the side which was nearest the sea ; and the Moors thought that a great power had arrived to the Cid 's succour , and they were dismayed , and began to fly . |
| 3 | Sir Edmond at this time lived in Foster Lane close to Goldsmiths ' Hall . |
| 4 | Asian and Middle Eastern areas generally gave more trouble to the colonial powers , than did their possessions in Black Africa at this time . |
| 5 | Mr M by this time was away on the outer islands for four days a week . |
| 6 | Those who talked to Harold Macmillan at this time were sure that this cold politicking did not enter his head ; that he was sincere and only wanted to do the best that he could for the Church . |
| 7 | Another innovation introduced by Mr Woolf about this time was a change in the title of the cutters . |
| 8 | Abrams explained this in terms of a particular configuration of economic factors affecting the United States at this time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The government seemed to be presiding over massive industrial contraction ; Mrs Thatcher at this time was the most unpopular Prime Minister since Neville Chamberlain in 1939 . |
| 11 | What position was held by Lord Lansdowne at this time ? |
| 12 | We can in fact penetrate beyond the officialese of the correspondents , thanks to the investigations conducted by R. Shafir at this time into the peasants ' own view of the press . |
| 13 | In both the United States and Great Britain during this time the New Right provided its own answer to the problem of bureaucratic responsiveness , or lack of it — the market . |
| 14 | His bus-load of senior schoolboys were all over Aurae Phiala by this time , gushing downhill towards the river like streams in spate , and no doubt he was free for a minute or two to breathe again and care about his own theories and idylls . |
| 15 | ‘ There 's a fair in Covent Garden at this time of year , ’ he heard himself saying . |
| 16 | Hu Yaobang apparently lost the patronage of Deng Xiaoping at this time and for him too the future looked uncertain as China 's supreme ruler moved towards the conservative side . |
| 17 | She was conscious of one undoubted fact : ‘ He was directing all his conversations to Joan Sims at this time , so I felt as though I were being talked at , rather than talked to . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |