Example sentences of "was at this " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was at this time that Diderot , who often strolled into the artists ' studios , paid a visit to David , and saw a picture which the artist was just finishing . |
| 2 | Ironically , it was at this time that Ezra Pound , who had been arrested and imprisoned for treason , was examined by four prominent psychologists and judged to be insane . |
| 3 | Henry Newbolt was at this time Hewlett 's neighbour in Wiltshire , and it seems to have been at this Christmas time that Hewlett took Pound to see Newbolt , who figures elsewhere in Canto 80 : |
| 4 | Peter does n't ’ And it was at this stage that someone else said , ‘ But Peter would n't like it , ’ and some little woman , who I 'd thought until that moment was a nun , said , ‘ Oh , fuck Big Petie . ’ |
| 5 | It was at this time that Asgerjorn resigned his membership of the SI , although he continued to finance it through the sale of his paintings which were increasingly in demand in the 1960s . |
| 6 | Chesterton , always a favourite author , was a Christian ; it was at this period that Lewis read The Everlasting Man , and it made a profound impression on him . |
| 7 | It was at this point that Tolkien reiterated the argument already made familiar to Lewis by Barfield . |
| 8 | It was at this point that police initially peacefully and totally unsuccessfully , sought to persuade the protesters to disperse . |
| 9 | It was at this stage that tanks and troops wielding guns and naked bayonets were introduced and gunfire was heard . |
| 10 | Lords Justices Balcombe and Beldam ruled that the mother , aged 25 , was at this stage entitled to block local authority plans to put her daughter , aged 5 ½ , and her three-year-old son up for adoption . |
| 11 | It was at this time that ‘ Space Oddity ’ was released , a period in David 's life that brought both triumph and tragedy . |
| 12 | It was at this point that David met Mary Finnigan , a journalist living in Beckenham , for the first time . |
| 13 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 14 | Mary Finnigan : It was at this time , when David flew out to Malta , then not only were we organising the Arts Lab but a free open air festival in Beckenham , David , having flown out to the Maltese song festival had sent Angie a postcard saying something to the effect that he was going to be in Italy and why did n't Angie come and join him , which she did , leaving me to sort out both the folk club and the free festival organised for Beckenham Park the following Sunday . ’ |
| 15 | It was at this point that the Channel Tunnel at last came into its own . |
| 16 | It was at this basic level that A Masculine Ending failed to deliver . |
| 17 | It was at this time , too , that he forged the one consistent thread of his life — the love of his family . |
| 18 | It was at this time , too , that he forged the one consistent thread of his life — the love of his family . |
| 19 | It was at this time that he first came across some Nonconformist pastors from Shrewsbury and was deeply impressed and helped by the ‘ fervent prayers , godly conversation and holiness ’ of their lives . |
| 20 | The Special Air Service Regiment — or S.A.S. , as it soon came to be called — was at this time an established part of the Army Air Corps , though it was little known to the public at large . |
| 21 | It was at this inquest that Gordon Thomas claimed that 60,000 cubic yards of earth had been moved during the excavation . |
| 22 | It was at this time that the Club first negotiated to use the cricket field for ‘ tuition ’ and it became an overflow car park in 1966 . |
| 23 | It was at this stage that he sought to qualify the right of national self-determination even in the colonies — ‘ to support savages and barbarians ’ , he wrote in Neue Zeit , ‘ who resist the penetration of capitalist civilization would be romantic ’ . |
| 24 | There was at this stage no general right to self-determination . |
| 25 | To get to that point , there was a quantum leap to be achieved , the proverbial turning point in a young man 's life when fate or some other thing takes a hand , and it was at this point in time that June — whom he says he still believed was his sister — reappeared in the story as a catalyst to a decision that would ultimately prove to be the most important in his life . |
| 26 | It was at this moment , as Franca recalled it afterwards , that the balance suddenly tilted in the other direction , and what had seemed sensible and inevitable suddenly began to seem trivial and irrelevant , and what had seemed impossible became not only possible but essential . |
| 27 | It was at this point that Gerry Fitt , Eddie McAteer and Austin Currie were injured . |
| 28 | She was at this time secretary of the Londonderry branch of the NILP . |
| 29 | In October it demanded to know what had happened to the seventy-acre industrial site and the industrial training centre promised by Faulkner and Minister of Development William Craig , and in February 1966 the DUAC lobbied the House of Commons at Westminster , led by Finbar O'Doherty , who was at this time its London representative . |
| 30 | The German countess then began to speak , but I was at this point , for some reason I do not recollect , obliged to leave the drawing room for an extended period . |