Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] time they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the same time they looked sublimely elegant . |
| 2 | At the same time they had established bases in India in which they exercised some degree of local political authority , though only in the way that trading companies normally did when away from home , and with no idea of challenging the authority of the Great Moghul , the ruler of India . |
| 3 | At the same time they had on Mondays and Tuesday we used to sell weekly tickets , so they had to go out in another box on Mondays and Tuesdays . |
| 4 | At the same time they had to continue running existing services , carry through any other major developments already in the pipeline and make progress on resource management and quality assurance systems . |
| 5 | At the same time they wished to protect and even advance British influence abroad . |
| 6 | Not only did their desire for greater freedom at university lead them into conflict with the authorities , but at the same time they responded to issues of much wider social significance raised by the ‘ revolutionary situation ’ of 1859–61 , the massacre of peasants protesting against the terms of Emancipation , the repression of radical journalists such as Chernyshevsky . |
| 7 | She caught sight of Ernest and Charlotte in the crowd and at the same time they saw her . |
| 8 | At the same time they saw a causal link between the predicament of the peasants and their own frustrations ; the political , social , and cultural constrictions which impinged directly upon them seemed to be the product of a society based upon oppression of the masses . |
| 9 | At the same time they disclosed details of some of the charges facing her . |
| 10 | The British could only watch and hope , yet at the same time they provoked some American complaints that their instinctive reaction in an emergency was to look for a compromise . |
| 11 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 12 | At the same time they took responsibility for the home , ’ she says . |
| 13 | Doctrinally , the canons were undeniably Calvinist in outlook ; yet at the same time they expressed some ambivalence over the doctrine of predestination , and hinted at a recognition of the potentially damaging consequences of it being inadequately or incorrectly explained to the laity . |
| 14 | At the same time they tried other jobs , the sort of also-ran jobs the music business is full of where you never become a celebrity but you are paid union rates and allowed to stand nearby . |
| 15 | At the same time they implied a threat of punishment against the user if the coin was abused in some way . |
| 16 | At the same time they submitted a memorial to Manners which stated their conviction ‘ that by a developement [ sic ] on the basis of the old architecture of the country there exists the best hope of our Public Buildings being effectually improved in character ’ . |
| 17 | Counts can be seen as royal servants ; but at the same time they used their position to entrench their local power . |
| 18 | At the same time they remained , as we all remain , implicated in other kinds of discrimination of which they and we , originally and subsequently , are the agents rather than the victims , or maybe both agents and victims . |
| 19 | They disliked British interference , but at the same time they appreciated that the British they appreciated that the British presence on Persian countered what would otherwise have been over whelming Russian influence . |
| 20 | Yet at the same time they welcomed the way the study mapped out areas on concern , in relation to the respective responsibilities of company directors executive and non-executive , auditors and shareholders , much of which remain unaddressed even after the Cadbury report . |
| 21 | At the same time they wanted the money which I earned . |
| 22 | At the same time they wanted to be able to increase their staffing as and when orders came along , and did not want to be in a position to have to refuse orders because they did not have the staff , or lose them because they could not promise fast enough delivery . |
| 23 | In a rare survey of local residents ' attitudes , the Kariels ( 1982 ) have found that in spite of the many negative aspects often ascribed to tourism , the overall evaluation of local inhabitants was strongly positive , although at the same time they wanted the landscape to retain its traditional character and felt that family life had been weakened by tourism . |
| 24 | At the same time they wanted " everything on one screen " meaning location information ( in LlBERTAS neither brief nor full records include location or a class number ) . |
| 25 | Hinting at reform , at the same time they comforted teachers with the reassurance that long-established procedures would remain . |
| 26 | At the same time they maintained — and who could blame them ? — their party affiliations ; and once our mortal danger had passed these increasingly took on a partisan character . |