Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] time they [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 At the same time they try to make sure that no other males get the opportunity to mate with their own female .
2 Additions such as these certainly enrich the idea of the longue durée ; but at the same time they complicate it by broadening the notion of constraint on which it depends and obscuring its relationship with conjonctures .
3 At the same time they contain both obvious and hidden differences which also need exploring .
4 At the same time they show a series of separate gill openings wedged between these shields and each associated with a tiny branchial plate .
5 13:31–35 ) give an implied warning of the dangers attending numerical growth , but at the same time they confirm that such growth is characteristic of the Kingdom of God ’ ( IRM July 1968:299 ) .
6 It would thus seem that something very like the provisions of the Kanunname were in operation by at least the early sixteenth century ; and if the sources are not sufficiently detailed to confirm the operation of the provisions of the Kanunname in every detail , at the same time they do not cast doubt upon any detail .
7 Thus the singers know the parts of at least twenty operas which are performed in turn , and at the same time they study a new one .
8 At the same time they preserve a rigorously secretive banking tradition .
9 They want to be treated with respect and reverence ; and at the same time they expect equality with men , complete emancipation , and to compete in every form of masculine activity .
10 At the same time they define the place of the individual in society , whether in the family or in wider spheres culminating in polities .
11 At the same time they need to give due attention to this kind of balance between different aims and purposes , in this case between the claims of an English tradition and of multi-cultural education .
12 At the same time they activate the rearranged DNA so that large quantities of antibody protein are produced from it .
13 At the same time they have kept their support tepid enough not to threaten their pose as the Palestinians ' champion .
14 They are certainly comfortable and assured , but at the same time they have no real chance of converting others to their views , at least if conversion means more than expressing the hope that God will send faith to others too .
15 At the same time they have gained in critical stature as successions of scholars and students around the world have failed to exhaust their interest .
16 It is all very well for the Government to pretend to mount a campaign against drugs and drug imports , but at the same time they have allowed another Department , the Treasury — Conservative Members do not want to hear — to cut 400 customs officer jobs .
17 At the same time they have re-examined ‘ respect for the individual ’ , and focussed back on the manager 's role in developing trust , justice , helping employees take ownership of their jobs .
18 At the same time they have developed an agreed body of industry-wide procedures to regulate the risks both share ( Chambers 1990 ) .
19 At the same time they have successfully begun to develop research skills .
20 At the same time they have been reluctant to support the extension of legal aid in libel cases , or to put their own house in order by strengthening the Press Council ( see Chapter 13 ) .
21 These codes set limits to meaning — ‘ objective possibilities ’ — while at the same time they leave open a space within which the operation of other elements in the music , its context and reception , can pull them into a more specific place in the network of social meaning , in line with the work of the articulating principles involved .
22 The author states that " the church-men hold an absolute passive obedience to be the duty of the subjects " , though he concluded that " at the same time they allow , that in cases where the ruin of the nation must otherwise ensure , the necessity dispenses with the duty , and self-preservation takes place before any other law " .
23 At the same time they intensify their economic attack and cause Cuba to fall into economic difficulties .
24 At the same time they grant that this account of visual perception does not accord with how things seem to ‘ the vulgar ’ .
25 Whilst the procedures may in some cases be limited , at the same time they offer protection for staff and information for researchers .
26 Whilst the procedures may in some cases be limited , at the same time they offer protection for staff and information for researchers .
27 ( 8 ) The more female ducks the males have to look at the more time they spend looking at them .
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