Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 32 | It is extremely difficult to maintain a full interdisciplinary focus whilst at the same time maintaining equitable balance between subjects , and also planning the internal subject inputs in a meaningful patterned way . |
| 33 | The Iraqi move was the culmination of several months of incident in the Middle East which appeared to be aimed at building up Saddam Hussein 's anti-Western and anti-Israeli credentials whilst at the same time confirming Iraq 's regional ascendency [ see pp. 37332 ; 37390 ; 37471 ] . |
| 34 | He employed the conventional Velikovskian technique of selecting evidence while at the same time adopting much of the traditional ( that is , false ) Velikovskian lore . |
| 35 | aporias — because they seem to be at once the results of a communal enterprise while at the same time bearing witness to the fact that this enterprise never existed except as the inhuman reverse side of two opposed actions in which each aims to destroy the other . |
| 36 | The Home Office is advising the police to increase the number of officers while at the same time the Department of the Environment is capping local authorities ' spending . |
| 37 | Bruce McNiven , Post Officer counters district manager , said : ‘ We are changing the shape of high street services in line with the needs of our customers while at the same time retaining the traditional services on which the community depends . ’ |
| 38 | In sudden abandon she allowed her arms to creep up round his neck , her fingers to sink into the short hair at the back of his head while at the same time parting her lips and welcoming the exciting exploration of his tongue . |
| 39 | In the absence of expanding leaves , shoot growth is essentially the elongation of a cylinder , a geometry ideal for spanning distances while at the same time keeping surface area to a minimum and hence the loss of water by evaporation . |
| 40 | It did something about corruption , by bringing in a new civil-service law which makes officials more accountable for their actions while at the same time making them freer of party patronage . |
| 41 | With the managers and service staff continuing to deliver a quality service whilst at the same time containing costs , profits will be ahead . |
| 42 | The officer , obviously unnerved by the continued shooting , was trying to persuade the Phalangists to leave the area while at the same time asking them for directions . |
| 43 | 6/Colour applied flat , the whole idea was to keep the drawing as a flat pattern while at the same time giving a certain degree of depth . |
| 44 | The new guidelines aim to give added protection to the countryside while at the same time promoting In drawing up the guidelines , planners accept that golf can have a major impact on countryside amenities , which , they claim , must be weighed against considerable economic and recreational benefit . |
| 45 | ICMS is a combination of ways to manage crops in order to conserve and enhance the environment for wildlife and people while at the same time producing quality crops of economic yield . |
| 46 | The notions of excellence they embody are used to fortify and legitimize the sacred and profane dimensions of authority while at the same time denoting official executants by means of appropriate insignia . |
| 47 | British Communists continued to blame the Social Democrats for Hitler 's victory while at the same time trying to organize common anti-Fascist activities between Communists and the Left of the Labour movement . |
| 48 | Plenary sessions in the Conference had , one after the other , commented on the absence of any relevant courses at University Departments of Education , on the similar failure on the part of other institutions of higher education to develop qualifications which might secure recognition from the Council for National Academic Awards , and on the apparent unwillingness of the Department of Education and Science to recognise overseas qualifications whilst at the same time refusing to take a lead in a field which could be shown to be a priority area . |
| 49 | For example : in Choros he focuses attention on many ancient Greek dance rituals and accents the playful use of movement whilst at the same time showing that such warlike , athletic courtship and other activities are a wonderful game to be played by the performers . |
| 50 | It would , for example , be perfectly feasible , as a matter of constitutional engineering , to bring all the nationalised industries under the umbrella of a single authority whilst at the same time so restricting the range of matters and extending the area of an agency of horizontal devolution that the two became almost indistinguishable . |
| 51 | richest taxpayers whom the independent Institute of Fiscal Studies estimated would lose under our proposals while at the same time completely ignoring the 46 per cent . |
| 52 | Barthes 's approach to S/Z has the merit of respecting the individual play of a given text while at the same time relying on the general concept of the scriptible and the lisible to do so . |
| 53 | Totally absorbed in holding the course while at the same time tightening the mainsail as the breeze grew gusty and erratic , Polly was surprised when Nathan emerged from the companionway . |
| 54 | In 1978 for example the Trades Union Congress ( TUC ) passed a resolution calling for government action to promote technological change while at the same time ameliorating the impact of such change on existing employment . |
| 55 | Refusing to let even this distorted version of myth lie still , the next lines confirm the evolutionary idea , lowering its level while at the same time raising the domestic temperature to the tropical : |
| 56 | Accepting shareholders will be attracted by an offer of preference shares which are convertible into ordinary shares in due course as they will be able to receive current fixed income while at the same time having the prospect of a capital gain in due course . |
| 57 | Similarly , overachieving can be an addiction if the achievement is to no purpose or gratification while at the same time the costs to other relationships may be so high as to be catastrophic . |
| 58 | The unique contribution of the discourse of the Report to this " social conscience " was its offer of English as the instrument of an affective strategy for educating the emotions of the " victims " so that as individuals they might be raised spiritually above the mass while at the same time remaining excluded from political and economic power and the decision-making processes . |
| 59 | Example 44 is from ‘ Vissi d'arte ’ in Tosca at a point where the orchestra plays the melody ( small notes ) while the singer weaves a web of narration in different ways — reciting , joining the orchestral melody , forming a decorative counter-melody , etc. — all within the space of a few bars : There is great skill here , yet nobody seems to have recognized it for what it really is — the solution for preserving melodic and formal unity while at the same time using words with freedom and flexibility . |
| 60 | In France they have devised a logical system whereby senior officials of the Bureau d'Enquête d'Accident are formally recognised by the magistrate as officials of his court , thereby relieving the magistrate himself of much responsibility relating to highly technical matters of which he has little comprehension while at the same time enabling the professional investigators immediate access to the wreckage of the aircraft and its records , etc. in their pursuit of the cause of the accident . |