Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] this time be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One advantage Bedfordshire has at this time was that packages such as SIR , EDFAX and COMMUNITEL were being piloted in the country and one librarian was involved in a Prestel project . |
| 2 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 3 | One suggestion made at this time was that the strongest swimmers among the Jews should jump overboard at intervals , thus forcing the St Louis to stop and turn round . |
| 4 | One suggestion made at this time was that Cell-y-bedd should be demolished . |
| 5 | Right we all gon na join in this time are we ? |
| 6 | However , most of the work he was doing at this time was of a minor nature . |
| 7 | The other story I recall to mind about this time is that Cranwell in those days must have been the coldest spot south of the Arctic Circle and the ration of coal to fire the single stove in a billet of 22 erks took little account of the temporary hutment , Some genius had laid down that the ration of coal would he 1lb of coal every other day was sufficient to ward off armies of brass monkeys that descended on Cranwell in winter . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | One of the most attractive designs that he did at this time was for Kay Dick 's novel , An Affair of Love ( 1953 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders . |
| 12 | A useful initiative taken at this time was the establishment of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre , designed to take cultural relations out of the hands of the ‘ Friendship Societies ’ which had restricted visitors from the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ to contact with groups of fellow-travellers in this country . |
| 13 | When in 1988 Deutsche Grammophon reissued on compact disc the recordings Karajan made in Berlin , Amsterdam , and Turin between 1938 and 1943 , the New York Times published an article on music-making in wartime Germany that concluded with the speculation that in none of the recordings Karajan made at this time is there any evidence that ‘ the soul was troubled ’ . |
| 14 | Another journey Chapman made at this time was to Scotland , to watch Neil Dewar of Third Lanark . |
| 15 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 16 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 17 | Two other books which he wrote at this time were to cause him serious trouble . |
| 18 | Some views expressed at this time were not dissimilar to those of the ‘ Li Yi Zhe ’ document , whose authors were released in February 1979 . |
| 19 | Borrowing at this time was not the kind of consumer or investment borrowing which we so frequently observe today . |
| 20 | He had by this time been child factory worker , apprentice framework knitter and short-term seaman , so his reaction is significant . |
| 21 | Her Black Sea fleet had by this time been destroyed , the allies had landed not only in the Crimea but also at Nikolaev to the west and Novorossiisk to the east , and the Turks retained a position at Sukhumi which gave them the chance of counter-attacking in the direction of Tiflis . |
| 22 | Many of the Champagne houses established at this time were born as a direct result of the Reims textile trade . |
| 23 | The high esteem in which jet was held at this time is shown by its relation to amber and gold . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeal , overruling the High Court judge , granted the injunction on the ground that in ‘ the balance of convenience ’ the wish to strike at this time was more than counterbalanced by the financial loss to the employers and the inconvenience to the public . |