Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the same time " in BNC.
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| 1 | China , if the one-child policy continues to be pursued successfully at the same time that life expectancy is being extended , looks set for an extraordinarily rapid transition to being the oldest society ever known — an apparently unforeseen consequence of her birth-rate policy , according to work being carried out by James Smith and Peter Laslett at the Rank Xerox Unit for the Study of Ageing , University of Cambridge . |
| 2 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 3 | Adomnan recalls in his biography of Columba , written a century after the saint 's death , that one day the monks became aware of a strange presence in one of their pastures ; this experience occurred again at the same time every evening . |
| 4 | The incidence of bridal pregnancy and bastardy rose significantly at the same time . |
| 5 | They can do both at the same time . |
| 6 | What you can do both at the same time can you ? |
| 7 | Now , if we think about actions which might have a beneficial effect on welfare or on conservation , there are some which benefit both at the same time . |
| 8 | Each Marking Kit contains seven overlays , so up to seven teachers can mark together at the same time . |
| 9 | ‘ Green in the snow ’ is a hot , hardy mustard , sown outdoors at the same time . |
| 10 | There is no problem with amplifying a speaker 's voice because in a room of any size you do not hear the individual 's voice as such and the electronic sound reaches everywhere at the same time . |
| 11 | Allow an ‘ activity space ’ around each piece , which can overlap with the next if you are not likely to use both at the same time . |
| 12 | Masonry developed traditionally at the same time as Norman England , but most of the buildings have been altered . |
| 13 | Some are showing how to do both at the same time |
| 14 | ‘ Keeping the bend and making Benji move sideways at the same time is not easy , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Erm which they start they 're supposed to be running together at the same time when they 'll start I do n't know . |
| 16 | And whilst we had no opportunities last year for canvassing or erm for getting members we we could have I I felt er put on more fund-raising events as we had a quiet year and we could have probably at the same time persuaded one or two people to actually join us . |
| 17 | Everyone in the board room was either clearing his throat , or shifting position in his seat , or doing both at the same time , which is actually rather difficult . |
| 18 | Slater was silent for a second , gazing disdainfully at Graham 's snapping fingers , then he said tiredly , " Graham , either concentrate on searching for the title of the book you 're talking about or devote your full energies to practising calling for a waiter ; I 'm not convinced you possess the RAM for doing both at the same time . " |
| 19 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 20 | It is difficult knowing how far to credit such stories in twelfth-century sources , although given that the Ramsey chronicle is recording the history of its own house , and that the Peterborough source refers to trouble there at the same time , it is reasonable to believe that trouble of some sort there was . |
| 21 | Auguste had added the course in the interests of the Prince of Wales ; it was to be served virtually at the same time as the entrée , in defiance of the rules , in the hope it would attract less attention . |
| 22 | I showed that instead the symmetry would have broken everywhere at the same time , rather than just inside bubbles . |
| 23 | Just over half of those who retired prematurely did so at the same time as their redundancy . |
| 24 | If you are scoring the tests yourself , rather than getting the computer to do it for you , then always do so at the same time of day — otherwise there would be variability due to time-of-day effects upon your scoring ability . |
| 25 | ‘ We thought it was as good an excuse as any and we were all able to get away at the same time . |
| 26 | It was the sort you sit up in , and there were two other people being taken home at the same time , so we did n't go straight to Fulham but did a detour through Kensington . |
| 27 | Laura , a far more quiet and serious character than her cousin , had left home at the same time for Cambridge University , to read economics . |
| 28 | A further example of national information about which local managers were unable to act came with the expanding of the National Diploma level of BTEC in schools : when it was shown that there did not have to be an exclusive choice of BTEC and A levels and that to offer both at the same time was not only permissible but also helpful , the manager was able to make new local choices . |
| 29 | It seemed to be impossible to straighten both at the same time ) and thrust out his chest . |
| 30 | This latter cloud rolled swiftly down towards St Pierre , hugging the ground , but extending upwards at the same time , so that it was almost as high as it was long . |