Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [det] [noun sg] be " in BNC.

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1 However , the demand for the relevant , the practical , and the vocational that was part of the raison d'être of the GCSE has at the same time been answered in a different way , which may in the end prove embarrassing to the DES and the SEC , and may seem to promise yet another shift of power .
2 But — with exceptions of course — it has at the same time been unable or unwilling to devote enough time and effort to understanding and pursing financial and accounting matters , perhaps because these often lack the immediate and general glamour of other aspects of policies .
3 Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me .
4 The water car transferred at the same time was not numbered .
5 It is not yet clear how many of the almost 80 other prisoners freed at the same time were held for political reasons .
6 The state of siege imposed at the same time was , however , extended by 30 days by a vote of the legislative assembly on Feb. 8 .
7 But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression .
8 ‘ What we must have at the same time is a greater level of consistency and the kind of spirit that was evident against Rangers . ’
9 Jumping at the same event was the famous ski jumper Eddie ‘ The Eagle ’ Edwards .
10 Any partial hypotheses which end at the same node are equivalent as far as further right context is concerned , and only the highest scoring need be kept .
11 So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before .
12 Experience with 761 had shown that loading and unloading at the same door was too slow on the Promenade .
13 But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals .
14 There is little evidence so far , though , to suggest that counterurbanization has halted the decline of service provision , since population thresholds for services have at the same time been rising ( Johansen and Fuguitt , 1984 ) .
15 Not that he was playing any flash lead parts but to keep a strong rhythm part going and sing at the same time is rather like having to twiddle both your thumbs in opposite directions at the same time .
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