Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 2 | The work done at this time did , however , serve to educate the permanent officials in the new approach to economic policy . |
| 3 | No major Arab initiative materialized at this time , although the Yugoslav Foreign Minister on behalf of the Non-aligned Movement pursued ideas on lines similar to those explored in December by Algerian President Col. Chadli Bendjedid [ see p. 37927 ] . |
| 4 | A useful initiative taken at this time was the establishment of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre , designed to take cultural relations out of the hands of the ‘ Friendship Societies ’ which had restricted visitors from the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ to contact with groups of fellow-travellers in this country . |
| 5 | His journal kept at this time shows the influence of Tersteegen , a German mystic . |
| 6 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 7 | This was a time of very rapid warming at the end of a little ice age and if we can understand how the climate changed at this time , we 're much better able to predict future climatic perturbations as the earth warms up due to the addition of greenhouse gases . |
| 8 | Minton was further exacerbated by the groundswell of interest in abstract art forming at this time . |
| 9 | How much was your a father earning at this time ? |
| 10 | Now wh while you were working , w w was your father working at this time ? |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal , overruling the High Court judge , granted the injunction on the ground that in ‘ the balance of convenience ’ the wish to strike at this time was more than counterbalanced by the financial loss to the employers and the inconvenience to the public . |
| 12 | A spokeswoman for Simpson , Coulson and Partners , said : ‘ We have absolutely no comment to make at this time . ’ |
| 13 | THESE days ‘ carol ’ means only the festive song heard at this time of year , but originally it denoted a dance . |
| 14 | But there is the sad possibility that parent and child stop communicating at this time and never rebuild the relationship on a new and satisfying footing . |
| 15 | With some reason did another Frenchman remark at this time that Britain had become no more than a colony of the American film industry . |
| 16 | ' How the Holy Spirit spoke at this time is unclear , but it seems reasonable to suppose that it was through a prophecy or exhortation given through another of the leaders . |
| 17 | One suggestion made at this time was that the strongest swimmers among the Jews should jump overboard at intervals , thus forcing the St Louis to stop and turn round . |
| 18 | One suggestion made at this time was that Cell-y-bedd should be demolished . |
| 19 | ‘ That was a damn silly thing to do at this time of night . ’ |
| 20 | If you hike down here ( a much wiser thing to do at this time of year ) the Grand Canyon Department of Arbitrary Silly Rules and Regulations have erected signs that read ‘ Do not go beyond this point without water . ’ |
| 21 | And they sat in the car with the windows down in the freezing dawn and they watched the distant city lights going out under the dawn at five in the morning , they sat there for a full half hour , looking , and thinking how beautiful the city looked at this time and at this distance … |
| 22 | A British report on the American occupation written at this time commented scathingly that the Koreans employed by the military government were ‘ almost hopelessly incompetent ’ . |
| 23 | In 1969 , a number of contributors to " history " had proposed the use of local documentary sources as a remedy for the perceived " crisis " in history teaching at this time . |