Example sentences of "it 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 | 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 . ’ |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It was at this point that Tolkien reiterated the argument already made familiar to Lewis by Barfield . |
7 | It was at this point that police initially peacefully and totally unsuccessfully , sought to persuade the protesters to disperse . |
8 | It was at this stage that tanks and troops wielding guns and naked bayonets were introduced and gunfire was heard . |
9 | It was at this time that ‘ Space Oddity ’ was released , a period in David 's life that brought both triumph and tragedy . |
10 | It was at this point that David met Mary Finnigan , a journalist living in Beckenham , for the first time . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . ’ |
13 | It was at this point that the Channel Tunnel at last came into its own . |
14 | It was at this basic level that A Masculine Ending failed to deliver . |
15 | It was at this time , too , that he forged the one consistent thread of his life — the love of his family . |
16 | It was at this time , too , that he forged the one consistent thread of his life — the love of his family . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | It was at this inquest that Gordon Thomas claimed that 60,000 cubic yards of earth had been moved during the excavation . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 ’ . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | It was at this point that Gerry Fitt , Eddie McAteer and Austin Currie were injured . |
24 | It was at this stage that the intensive training in navigation paid off . |
25 | It was at this stage that Reg and I realised that David Stirling was suffering from one of his frequent migraine attacks … . |
26 | It was at this time that he commissioned both Cooper and Sadler in the field , in recognition of their services , an action which was later thought to have been highly irregular . |
27 | It was at this time too that there appeared in Europe the system of notation in which the exact time-value of a note is indicated by a lozenge on a pole . |
28 | Gedge 's studies came to an end and it was at this point that he realised his obsessive interest in music could not be satisfied by part-time activity while he searched for a ‘ proper ’ job . |
29 | It was at this time that Chapman made another of his ‘ discoveries ’ . |
30 | It was at this point that I gave up any hopes for an aviation career simply because of the increasing high cost of hiring that DH Moth for a few hours every weekend . |