Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being a costly enterprise and having many uses to the modern state , research has at the same time come under increased scrutiny from the paymaster . |
| 2 | While attempting to give financial autonomy to schools the government has at the same time failed to help the market — that is , parents and pupils — to decide what subjects should be studied . |
| 3 | It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward . |
| 4 | Edward Blishen , the presenter , has an enviable gift for sketching in background and perspective , drawing up different strands of what was happening at the same time to make his argument , all with ease . |
| 5 | Since they would be stationed on inter-republican boundaries , the Supreme Soviet voted at the same time to work towards a definition of legal state borders with its neighbours by Feb. 1 , 1992 . |
| 6 | Erm , he did have the right to that trial for erm what the previous offence before taking conveyance which was a clock taken without the owner 's consent and previous offence before that taking but in order to reduce costs right mainly because they also want at the same time to remove the right for theft ah and they failed . |
| 7 | In the UK , the substantial improvement reported at the half year has continued as the benefit of rating action , more selective underwriting procedures and cost controls prove increasingly effective across the whole portfolio . |
| 8 | Here we are looking at the same argument using the energy input in absolute terms . |
| 9 | We must now try to bring together all this information in the assignment of the spectrum of a more complex molecule , attempting at the same time to come to some definite conclusions about its structure . |
| 10 | The man embraced the Syrian , starting at the same time to cry . |
| 11 | On this issue therefore , I find it curious that so many people can become excited at the humanitarianism of the young Marx while choosing at the same time to ignore the inhumanity of the more mature Marx . |
| 12 | She looked at the few cigarettes left in her pack and then impulsively threw them all out of the window . |
| 13 | Advisers are here exposed to an example of social policy work where several potential clients may be assisted at the same time to help themselves . |
| 14 | Exchange regulations were relaxed at the same time to allow people to acquire foreign currency . |
| 15 | Other systems also being tried at the same time included dehydration and injection techniques , the latter to be perfected by a surgeon called Ruysch ( 1665–1717 ) , Professor of Anatomy at Amsterdam . |
| 16 | That these killings have happened at the same time does n't help ’ |
| 17 | Her picture of God ( which came from experiences in the past ) was so distorted that without realizing it she was believing a grotesque caricature of God which for sanity 's sake she was forced at the same time to doubt . |
| 18 | She smiled at the few women clustered at the counter and acknowledged their somewhat surprised greetings , and was enormously grateful to Frank Green , the owner , for treating her as if she were a regular and valued customer instead of a virtual stranger . |
| 19 | But for larger numbers of mutational steps , even in the case of the biomorphs with their nine little genes , the mathematical space of all possible trajectories is so vast that the chance of two trajectories ever arriving at the same point becomes vanishingly small . |
| 20 | Measures taken at the half year have cut the financing requirement , and small debt repayments were made in the second half . |
| 21 | The statutes of the institute were altered at the same time to give Servan-Schreiber executive control . |
| 22 | Audiences might have enjoyed reinterpretations , as when Odling at the same period suggested that phlogiston was an anticipation of the idea of chemical energy , rather than a non-substance . |
| 23 | The Guildsmen leapt out of his path , trying at the same time to bend a reverent knee . |
| 24 | Then I shall examine some criticisms of the monist position from a pluralist point of view , trying at the same time to bring out the presuppositions that underly such criticisms and showing that a clarification of these presuppositions demands a critical exploration of certain new philosophical topics that have not been touched on hitherto . |
| 25 | He stood with his back to the fire , dominating the room and as if trying at the same time to dominate Sarella 's thoughts . |
| 26 | His young master brought him in repeatedly and I went through the motions , trying at the same time to make it clear that it was all hopeless . |
| 27 | However , indebtedness had at the same time gone up from 90 per cent of GNP to a January 1990 level of 120 per cent , the second highest in Western Europe . |
| 28 | Since he continued at the same time to deny any intention to stand , the letter seemed designed to test the ground while adding to the ferment in the parliamentary party — especially among those MPs sitting in vulnerable , marginal seats . |
| 29 | She spotted Adam almost as soon as she entered the club , but though he was sitting only a short distance away with a stocky sandy-haired man she did n't recognise , it took her some time to reach his table , since she was obliged to stop at every few strides to talk to customers . |
| 30 | Also , if you and your Spouse are both covered by the Plan and are hospitalised at the same time , your cover will again be doubled — giving you £160 each , if hospitalised at the same time following an accident . |