Example sentences of "it [be] at this " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth .
2 Who could it be at this hour ?
3 Whoever could it be at this time of night ?
4 It 's at this point that so many people give up .
5 It 's at this point that you have to start making choices , and you have several options .
6 It 's at this stage that the work is most interesting and most difficult .
7 It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’
8 It 's at this stage that mercury comes into the picture .
9 It 's at this point nearing the end of my open study I 've realised a connection between the four characters I have just compared .
10 It 's at this point in our agenda when er the world search it 's our agenda and er in introducing the report there are just four things I want to comment about .
11 Antiques day at a the , this is the all the places it 's at this Sunday and it 's er , in Chester .
12 It 's at this point that AIDS develops .
13 It is at this stage of the hob that the one-man band plays the best music .
14 It is at this time that the characteristic tapping sound which gives the beetle its name can be heard .
15 It is at this stage that we can perhaps be of most use by pointing out that that is mostly what grief is about .
16 It is at this time that the trident became a regular part of her iconography , specifically after the great victory of the Earl of Howe at the battle of the Glorious First of June in 1794 ; shortly thereafter , from the early nineteenth century , she is also regularly shown as wearing a helmet .
17 It is at this stage that the exposure should be covered and exporters should not wait until the goods are being shipped .
18 It is at this stage in the history of the unit that its existence starts to register gradually in official records for the first time .
19 It is at this point that Todorov 's ‘ classicism , is projected towards postmodernism .
20 It is at this point that gonorrhoea may start to produce symptoms in the female .
21 Are rich , it is at this dear cost —
22 It is at this point in the profound stillness that the sound of the mind can be heard .
23 It is at this point that I slip from my pedestal of polite insouciance .
24 It is at this point that library promotion and publicity broadens into public relations , which , in its fullest treatment , is beyond the scope of this book .
25 Again , in discussing punctuated equilibria ( much or the initial impact of which depended on the assertion that Darwin had got things wrong ) it is not until after several pages that we are told ‘ It is at this stage entertaining to realise ’ that Darwin ‘ anticipated the present debate ’ .
26 It is at this stage that a couple sometimes decide to change to separate beds or even separate rooms .
27 Indeed it will be argued later in this book that it is at this level — the level of field support — that the greatest single power to achieve innovation may lie .
28 It is at this stage , with a primary definition of ‘ goodness ’ established , that the relationship between ‘ goodness ’ and the concept of the Created God can now be considered , so that the full contribution to the definition of that God which can be attributed to the Second Period , can be evaluated .
29 There is always a point at which the limitation of science , albeit forever progressing , introduces the need to make an unproved assumption about the mystery of life , and it is at this point that a religion becomes a necessity and must take over .
30 It is at this point that the system is heading for a new crisis .
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