Example sentences of "[prep] this time [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individual Athenians felt no compunction at this tightening of the screws : an Athenian father of about this time called his son Karystonikos , shamelessly exulting in the ‘ Victory over Karystos ’ , and the name Naxiades , which occurs in the same inscribed casualty-list ( ML 48 ) can be similarly explained . |
| 2 | During this time affected characters run at maximum speed away from it . |
| 3 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 4 | His photographs from this time succeeded in capturing the real China in a way that would have been impossible to a foreigner . |
| 5 | As most of the SO 2 cloud is converted to sulphate by September , the perturbations of the photochemical balance of O 3 are substantially reduced at this time compared with July ; O 3 production through cycle I now represents less than 10% of the O 3 production in the mid-stratosphere ( Fig. 2 b ) , and oxygen photolysis is reduced only by about 10% in the lower stratosphere ( Fig. 3 b ) . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , one may reasonably presume that the major changes in the marine faunas at this time followed from the regressions caused by the Hercynian orogeny . |
| 7 | The three of them soon to be part of one fusion , still at this time isolated from each other : three figures representing and summarising between them so much that was central to the complex notion of the Romantic Age . |
| 8 | In addition , he became acquainted with Preston Goodfellow , who at this time worked for the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) ; Goodfellow played an important if opaque role in advancing Rhee 's career in 1945–46 . |
| 9 | This lot have been brought into the barn for a rest , ’ indicating with his hand the others who had by this time fallen asleep , oblivious to the noise of the guns and the explosions very close to the barn . |
| 10 | The discriminatory policies of Poland , which had been prompted by Germany 's boycott of Polish coal in 1925 , had by this time developed into a fully-fledged trade war , and this , combined with the effects of the new port at Gdynia , the increasing Jewish population , the irritating presence of Danzig Poles and the continual clucking of the League of Nations , all helped to shift the political perceptions of the local population towards simplistic , populist , nationalist and ultimately racist solutions — namely those offered by the Nazi Party . |
| 11 | I was utterly baffled , but I gave you the benefit of every doubt , which by this time added up to a couple of thousand . |
| 12 | I had by this time spent some years in the States , including a year living in an Anglican theological college , and had watched my friends become ordained . |
| 13 | All the Met Waafs at Bourn had by this time qualified for their ‘ props ’ , so we were two steps up from the bottom of the ladder and that 's where we stopped . |
| 14 | The industrial and commercial development of England had by this time succeeded in ‘ ruralizing ’ the countryside by reducing the economic viability of much small-scale manufacture and domestic handicraft and transferring it to the new system of factory production in the towns . |