Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] at the [adj] time " in BNC.

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31 One friend has described him checking his wristwatch with an almost deliberate thoroughness : " He slowly and methodically raised his left hand and with his right hand carefully pushed back his coat sleeve and shirt sleeve at the same time and then painstakingly , at close range , studied the face of the dial .
32 I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom .
33 Furthermore , several pairs of the reaction primers can be mixed in the same tube and allowed to ‘ analyse ’ different point mutations at the same time ( all the different products of the polymerase chain reaction are deliberately designed to be different sizes ) .
34 it 's not like a Cover Master Living Assurance , where you building up excess cash funds at the same time .
35 It was most fortunate that we sailed from Cape Town at the appointed time as he had many engagements in Australia — most important the Opening of Parliament in Melbourne a day or two after his arrival .
36 Arrive punctually to be ready for the sound check at the agreed time .
37 This signalled the arrival of the half of the school that had NOT been early for assembly , who tried to enter the sports hall at the same time as the half that had just been thrown out tried to exit .
38 Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while .
39 Gillian and her team reached the conference room at the same time as the clients .
40 It was Mark who had persuaded her to approach the bank for a loan , Mark who had suggested her old friend Linda George , who had graduated in business studies at the same time that Theresa had finished her fashion degree , should join forces with her to organise the commercial side , Mark who had given her enough confidence in herself for her to allow her mother to put up her house as security — something Theresa had fought against even whilst realising there was no other way to secure the loan she needed .
41 When monitoring job progress the manager should be analysing fee predictions at the same time .
42 In this way , teaching which provides for learner development serves the cause of teacher development at the same time .
43 The hard copy formatter may be required to format modules associated with several charge codes at the same time .
44 Those in work are paying for the pensions of those past retirement age at the current time , rather than for their own pensions in the future .
45 If you are acting for a mortgagee as well as for a buyer or borrower , then you prepare the mortgage deed at the same time as the transfer deed .
46 If for any reason the existing trap on a basin , sink or bath needs replacing , it is best to replace the waste pipe at the same time if it is lead , although traps are available which can be connected to materials other than plastic .
47 Everybody was assembled in the lecture theatre at the appointed time , but no lecturer had arrived .
48 She 's the glow that keeps together our family life my business life at the same time has always been supportive of my involvement in Round Table .
49 One can hardly say the same about the Post Office which busts a gut licking the boots of its business users at the same time as it cuts the quality of service to residential customers .
50 If a form HO/RT/1 is issues and the driver elects to produce the document at a distant police station it is good practice to also request the suspected driver to produce his registration document at the same time .
51 ‘ I thought I might as well have a bit of a motoring holiday at the same time , ’ he explains .
52 Borrow a small edging sander at the same time to finish close to walls .
53 It figures , therefore , that freed from a line controlling its movements a ferret can work much more freely and quickly — and a number of muzzled ferrets can be used within the same burrow system at the same time .
54 Focus on visual information may be sharpened , when pupils are not trying to follow a sound commentary at the same time .
55 Shildon had made remarkable progress in a short time but needed help as he was trying to do his normal work for the business section at the same time .
56 Or they may take advantage of visits to dischargers for other purposes to fill a sample bucket at the same time .
57 and you start your water tablets at the same time .
58 Icons are duplicated by holding the CTRL key at the same time as dragging the icon to its new location .
59 So when your neighbour can only manage to bake 32 fairy cakes at the same time you can serve up 50 , and it will gobble up a 31lb turkey with ease .
60 [ what is ] apparent during this period is the bewilderment and confusion of many sections of the liberal intelligentsia in grappling with the immigration issue at the same time as they had difficulties in understanding the new elements of youth culture brought on by the emergence of what was in popular parlance being termed an ‘ affluent society ’ .
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