Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Franco-Prussian war was at this time still a recent memory , and German mathematicians quickly suspected that nationalistic sentiment lay behind the accusations directed at their adopted son . |
| 2 | She and Miki took to the stage again with Ministry , Miki sporting a rockerific white flying V. If I can remember correctly , Howard our manager was by this time on all fours with a bottle of tequila clutched firmly between his mitts — but this is what we pay him for . |
| 3 | Bulgaria 's effective government was from this time in the hands of a Regency under Stambouloff . |
| 4 | Consider policy should be for all nationals , ie persons born within pre-1939 frontier of an Allied country , to be handed over to Ally concerned This final sentence underlined how keen Eighth Army was by this time to " clear the decks " in its area . |
| 5 | Despite some disappointments , the general progress of science was by this time undoubted , and a source of pride even to those not connected with it . |
| 6 | Mr. Smith , the Standard Three master was at this time nearing retirement . |
| 7 | The fact that several provincial towns reported pope-burnings in November 1714 and 1715 should make us question how extensive support for the Jacobite position was at this time . |
| 8 | But the principal purpose of the Forest system was by this time the raising of revenue : in most cases the wardenships were restored to the offenders or their heirs on payment of a fine to the king . |
| 9 | The Daily Express was by this time in pole position , but the Mail and Today were coming up fast on the inside . |
| 10 | Anselm was at this time in exile , so it is clear that the monks , who now had a prior whom Anselm had appointed , were able to do publicly what the Anglo-Saxon enthusiasts had had to do surreptitiously before Anselm 's arrival . |
| 11 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |