Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at this time " in BNC.

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1 Resigned to being detained for several minutes , Melissa forced herself to be pleasant , making suitable replies to his comments on the weather and agreeing that it was a bit unsettled , that frost was still likely to be a problem but was only to be expected at this time of year .
2 A very low-fat start to the day is tomatoes or mushrooms on a slice of wholemeal toast ; and the baked bean must not be forgotten at this time of day .
3 Eggs are laid down in the autumn and a good digestible protein-rich diet , such as earthworms , should be fed at this time in order to encourage early spawning .
4 The other divers were nowhere to be seen at this time , which made for an extremely dangerous situation in the open ocean .
5 Can you find out about any others that can be seen at this time of year ?
6 There is legitimate concern that the meeting decided that little could be done at this time we might be able to contribute to the campaign at a later stage .
7 ( It will have to be moved at this time in any case ) .
8 The president acknowledged that ground convoys are the best way to deliver aid , but said the airdrops were ‘ a temporary measure , designed to address the immediate needs of isolated areas that can not be reached at this time by ground . ’
9 It is a knitting system that should be considered as temporary storage area for patterns that are to be knitted at this time .
10 Note , that MODULE7 , MODULE9 and LFPACK2 are not to be entered at this time .
11 The Council has therefore reached the view that a formal scheme should not be introduced at this time but that members should be encouraged to take young intrants into their offices if they are able to do so , and the Council therefore recommends members to consider whether they can offer this facility to young people in their areas .
12 No direct light should be provided at this time , as the fry are light sensitive for the first week after hatching .
13 If the original Application Form indicates that the parents are also interested in an Assisted Place the appropriate forms will be issued at this time .
14 The 1031 annal on Cnut 's visits to Rome and Scotland could have been inserted at this time too .
15 Parler brought with him the influence of the Cologne school and , though only the choir and chapels with part of the south façade were completed at this time , it is interesting to compare , both on exterior and interior , the work of Matthias on the lower part and Parler on the upper ( 532 and 533 ) .
16 This strategy of inculcation and for more explicit interventions into the flow of subjective responses , experiences , and pleasures , had a great deal in common with the programme for a renewed Liberalism being developed at this time by L. T. Hobhouse :
17 However , some excellent studies were done at this time , many using fieldwork techniques and participant observation rather than surveys .
18 It was not just in the treatment of syphilis that advances were being made at this time .
19 He brought his ballad finished ’ , we hardly need to be reminded that The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Christabel , and other poems were being written at this time .
20 The Pacifics were used at this time on the Nottingham to Marylebone semi-fasts but they were to be transferred away as the rundown of the GC got underway .
21 Better management is likely to result from a period of careful observation and assessment , with considerable support being provided at this time through frequent contact with nursing and other ward staff .
22 Staff were asked at this time to complete a form indicating whether or not they wished to relocate .
23 Many other surveys were conducted at this time , employing the newly re-established social science departments , which had been inactive for over two decades .
24 Given this broad context , the purposes of this article are threefold : to outline some of the complexities of the payments situation in the period 1945–51 ; to discuss some of the military expenditure and foreign policy aspects of that situation , and how these were debated at this time ; and , finally , to examine one of the most politically problematic aspects of balance-of-payments policy in this period : its impact on the sterling area in general and the colonies in particular .
25 Given the time needed to deal with the residue of Poll Tax no reduction in Support Services , including typing is being suggested at this time and other services are expected to continue as at present .
26 The result , stretching west from Hedeby , whose semicircular defences also seem to have been renewed at this time , was a rampart over eight miles long , about thirteen yards wide , and nearly ten feet high , not counting the wooden palisade with which it was presumably crowned .
27 Some recently acquired territory may have been lost at this time or soon after .
28 Minton is said at this time to have destroyed some of the erotic drawings which he had begun making after seeing those by Fuseli which Wan Ross had acquired from Ruthven Todd .
29 Intercourse is avoided at this time .
30 It seems relevant that anthropology be used at this time to contribute to the debate on policing , for since the 1964 Police Act and the preceding Royal Commission which was generated through concern over police practice , the organization has held an increasingly central place in the public imagination .
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