Example sentences of "it be [prep] this time " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Whoever can it be at this time of night ? ’ asked Elizabeth . |
| 2 | Whoever could it be at this time of night ? |
| 3 | It 's for this time . |
| 4 | Ooh it 's off this time |
| 5 | It is at this time that the characteristic tapping sound which gives the beetle its name can be heard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is at this time that some do-gooders may make all kinds of suggestions . |
| 8 | Perhaps we could go back still further , to the event of her own birth , and even into an intra-uterine existence , for it is at this time that the ovaries and all the eggs are formed in the female . |
| 9 | It was safer to hire soldiers as well and it is at this time that we first come across the name Mercadier , a name that from now on was to be closely linked with Richard 's . |
| 10 | The way forward then is to recruit , and the importance of new members was never more critical than it is at this time . |
| 11 | ‘ How beautiful it is at this time of the year . ’ |
| 12 | It is during this time that torture most commonly occurs . |
| 13 | Since rainfall controls plant growth , and plants are the base of the food pyramid , deserts typically have only a short period when food is abundant ; it is during this time that the creatures of the desert must complete their breeding cycle . |
| 14 | It is about this time of year that life at the headquarters of the Women Professional Golfers ' European Tour gets a little hectic for Membership Secretary Marion Davies . |
| 15 | It is about this time each day that the boy goes by . ’ |
| 16 | It is from this time onwards that the architectural style of Rome was developed and crystallised . |
| 17 | It was about this time that Vivienne began to get really evangelistic about it all . |
| 18 | It was about this time that their grandmother died of a sudden heart attack . |
| 19 | It was about this time that the power struggle between King Charles I and parliament began to escalate . |
| 20 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 21 | It was about this time that Endill began hearing footsteps echoing around the corridors of Nightside . |
| 22 | It was about this time that the meal ended . |
| 23 | It was about this time that I received a letter from Dr Liu Shih-Shun , Chinese Ambassador in Ottawa , who informed me that , with the imminent cessation of hostilities in Asia , the Chinese government would move back from the wartime capital of Chungking to the south central city of Nanking . |
| 24 | It was about this time that Scott found out that Charles Barry junior had distributed a paper to MPs pressing his own claim to the Foreign Office . |
| 25 | It was about this time that Elizabeth 's growing reputation began to attract the envy and malice of reviewers . |
| 26 | Whiteley , C.O. of 69 Squadron , recalled : ‘ It was about this time that we were stood by to intercept transport aircraft proceeding from Italy to North Africa . |
| 27 | It was about this time that Wordsworth met Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) , whom we are considering in this chapter as an important English philosopher rather than as a poet . |
| 28 | It was about this time that he started telling Lewis Wyvis Hall would be his one day . |
| 29 | I think it was about this time ( I ca n't tell exactly because my diary makes no reference at any point to the practice ) that I discovered purging . |
| 30 | For Richard this was the year when he came to man 5 estate , for it was about this time that Louis VII knighted him . |