Example sentences of "is at this " in BNC.

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1 It is at this stage of the hob that the one-man band plays the best music .
2 The meaning of ‘ snap ’ in relation to Eliot 's ‘ rather more fragile system ’ is at this date , I suppose , irrecoverable ; but the general drift of these remarks is clear .
3 It is at this time that the characteristic tapping sound which gives the beetle its name can be heard .
4 Well , the DTI is at this moment considering giving money to keep Huerter , one of his main rivals , going .
5 Now the Chancellor is at this time usually an ecclesiastic , commonly a bishop , and , as such , interested in , and , at least in his own opinion , a good judge of questions of morality or ‘ conscience ’ .
6 The enemy threatening that task is at this point the Philistines .
7 It is at this stage that we can perhaps be of most use by pointing out that that is mostly what grief is about .
8 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 .
9 It is at this stage that the exposure should be covered and exporters should not wait until the goods are being shipped .
10 His secretary , Shirley , smirks from behind her desk , self-righteous at being at her post before the boss , even though she is at this moment inspecting her face in a compact mirror .
11 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 .
12 It is at this point that Todorov 's ‘ classicism , is projected towards postmodernism .
13 It is at this point that gonorrhoea may start to produce symptoms in the female .
14 Are rich , it is at this dear cost —
15 It is at this point in the profound stillness that the sound of the mind can be heard .
16 It is at this point that I slip from my pedestal of polite insouciance .
17 ‘ Never is at this time , sir .
18 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 .
19 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 ’ .
20 It is at this stage that a couple sometimes decide to change to separate beds or even separate rooms .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 It is at this point that the system is heading for a new crisis .
25 It is at this point that a right heart attitude would benefit greatly from an intelligent technique .
26 Although a measure of ambivalence is quite usual , it is at this point that a decision is made about going public .
27 It is at this stage of our discussion that a little physics comes in useful .
28 We 've spoken in the past about the importance of the acoustic tone of an instrument ; the better the tone is at this point , the less work the pickups and amp have to do to produce that sound .
29 It is at this time that some do-gooders may make all kinds of suggestions .
30 And it is at this point that we can see the way in which secularisation feeds and nurtures the philosophies of secularism .
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