Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] this time " in BNC.

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1 The pope made no direct statement about Lichfield at this time but Aethelheard visited Rome in 801 ( ASC A , s.a. 799 ) and the pope wrote to him in January 802 ( and to Coenwulf ) conceding to Aethelheard and his successors authority over all the churches of the Anglo-Saxons ( with reference specifically to the twelve bishoprics of the southern province ) .
2 Less than a month separates the publisher 's acceptance of the book and Nietzsche 's completion of the revision ; and during part of this time he was busy preparing lectures on Plato and , unexpectedly enough , on Latin epigraphy . "
3 Or are we seeing an indication that some inner processes of preparation for loss at this time of life have come into play ?
4 What is remarkable about Ireland at this time is the lack of resistance to the authority of Canterbury : as a result , Anselm was able without controversy to extend the area within which the authority of Canterbury was effective .
5 Will was writing a different kind of play at this time .
6 The children and their families need a great deal of support during this time — support which it is not possible to provide from the Health Service .
7 There is archaeological evidence for such management of woodland at this time from Barton Court Farm ( Oxfordshire ) ( Robinson 1981 ) .
8 And of course at this time of the year I would guess the people responsible for writing references get hundreds of requests , not just for universities but for polytechnics and other colleges of , of higher education .
9 I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed .
10 I 'm very hopeful because er , Vietnam since nineteen eighty six has been under a process of economic and political reform , and they have released er a large amount of prisoners over this time , and there are still a number of prisoners , such as poets er religious people that are still in prison , who are hoping that , with their renewed effort and attention from the media , this 'll er be changed .
11 This ability was sharpened by these players ' meetings , which were a unique feature of football at this time .
12 It is more probable that they were cited soon after deposit , but that the coverage of SCI at this time did not extend to those journals in which the citations occurred .
13 Leslie Phillips speaks affectionately of Ken at this time .
14 But memories of Ken at this time still tend to revolve more around the fun .
15 The aggressive reaction in favour of Sacheverell at this time , however , should not obscure the fact that the whole affair merely served to fuel religious tensions which already existed in many parts of the country .
16 The solution requires a reassessment of the nature of Toryism at this time ; rather than seeing the Tories as royal absolutists , it is better to see them as conservative legal-constitutionalists , deeply committed to the rule of law and the Anglican Church .
17 Such haste inevitably resulted in cursory recording being a characteristic of research at this time , which is particularly regrettable in Faussett 's case because of the scale of his activities in Kent .
18 The latter cycle takes about 10 days to complete , and successful transmission demands that female mosquitoes survive and take at least two feeds of blood during this time .
19 Hardly less damaging for the Church was clerical incontinency , which sometimes led to the son succeeding the father in a benefice or parish , as reported in the diocese of Worcester at this time , " so dishonouring ecclesiastical dignity and the canon law " .
20 The overseas economy of Kent was the most developed in early Anglo-Saxon England ; so strong is this overseas flavour of the Kentish economy and its society ; that it can almost be seen as part of the Continent rather than the rest of England at this time .
21 Diodorus ' narrative of Sicily at this time is in a way superior to that of Thucydides , who in his introduction to the Athenian expedition against Sicily in 415–413 undertakes to explain his view that Athens was biting off more than she could chew .
22 These young men jumped at any chance of work during this time .
23 He received a steady stream of visitors during this time , including the young Matthew Henry , the famous commentator , who was studying law in London .
24 The province of Surrey , most recently under the control of King Ecgberht appears to have passed under the domination of Wulfhere at this time .
25 Literary celebrations of nature at this time invariably referred to cultivated , pastoral landscapes ( Serpell , 1986 ) .
26 Walcott suggested there was a three-fold division in the House of Commons at this time : the government interest , which comprised placemen , pensioners and those who in other ways were dependent upon the Court for their position ; a large body of independent back-bench MPs ; and a middle group of professional politicians , which could be divided into seven " connections " , each tied together by family and personal relationships and electoral interests , and which were caught in a struggle for power between the " ins " and " outs " .
27 I therefore think that [ the ] motion is out of place at this time and that it is proposed for a certain purpose .
28 Hudson has concluded that Cnut received the submission of the Scots in 1031 in Strathclyde , during a naval expedition into the Irish Sea , and whether or not Echmarcach did rule in Galloway and the Isle of Man at this time ( see above ) , his presence at the meeting could be relevant to Cnut 's relations with the Irish .
29 But it was the longbow , with its range of up to 200 metres , its power of penetration which was to compel the development of more effective plate armour in the first half of the fourteenth century , its rate of fire which was easily twice that of the crossbow , and which , held vertically , ( earlier bows and crossbows were held horizontally ) could be aimed more accurately along the line of the bow , which was to give the archer , above all those serving in English armies , so important a role to play in every form of war at this time .
30 It is undeniable that artillery was making progress , and that its development was one of the major changes associated with the conduct of war at this time .
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