Example sentences of "[adj] at [art] [det] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( You are rarely able to sample rhythms as often as you would like. ) ( a ) Are your 4 hours of observations made in a single session or a number of sessions ? ( b ) If it is a single session , is this at the same time or at different times each day ? ( c ) If it is at different times , then how do you arrange them ? ( d ) If it is a number of sessions , then how many ? |
| 2 | Nations have to do this at the same time as they keep up economic growth , or accept a drop in standards of living . |
| 3 | Like the quatrain poems it is funny at the same time as serious . |
| 4 | Thus the pressure , both inner and outer , on teachers to have a clear , articulate rationale for what they are doing is high at the same time as the exploration of the values from which such a rationale must derive is conspicuously out of style . |
| 5 | It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves . |
| 6 | Elizabeth Maginnis , the convener , said the timetable for change — starting at the start of next school year and to cover all schools by April 1996 — was unrealistic at the same time as local government was being reformed . |
| 7 | ‘ If agencies wind up in 1993 at the same level as in 1992 , they 'll be doing well , ’ states Martin Larkin , managing director , Irish International Advertising . |
| 8 | He was proud that the invisible spirit animating the slight frame had dared to conceive the intended deed as his duty ; but he was afraid at the same time that he would lack the courage to endure the pain and carry it through . |
| 9 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 10 | The USA did so on April 7 at the same time as recognizing Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see above ] . |
| 11 | But , I think it would be illusory to think that we can maintain our profits from land in ninety three at the same level as it had been for ninety one and two . |
| 12 | These aspirations were shared by the Beveridge committee on social insurance which was set up in 1941 at the same time as the Uthwatt committee and the Scott committee . |
| 13 | No student can , however , be in Stage I and Stage II at the same time and no student is allowed to proceed into Stage II unless he or she has fully satisfied Stage I requirements or with the express approval of the Examinations Committee . |
| 14 | All of these have strategic aspects to consider , and strategic developments in these areas will not occur all at the same pace or even , necessarily , in the same direction . |
| 15 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 16 | She would have liked the brune he offered her , but could n't cope with the tape-recorder , the paper with the questions written out in the Blot office , the unfamiliarity of speaking French after an interval , as well as Meursault 's cult reputation , all at the same time as smoking . |
| 17 | Most of the action would be improvised with two or three scenes happening all at the same time as in a mediaeval play . |
| 18 | She broke off , feeling a rush of heat and cold all at the same time as Niall studied her with penetrating intensity . |
| 19 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 20 | Robyn swallowed and glanced out at the pouring rain , glanced at him , at the carved , arrogant profile that irked and thrilled her all at the same time and then at the rain again . |
| 21 | Already being used by the law in the US , the head-to-toe outfit gives that Michelin man effect but is , we 're told , light and flexible at the same time as being resistant to punches , bottles and the occasional kicking . |
| 22 | He is always positive and courteous at the same time as being astute , determined and unwavering in his pursuit of profit . |
| 23 | Like ( c ) , ( f ) has slit illumination , but this is stroboscopic at the same frequency as the sound . |
| 24 | Course , Derek Weintraub just sat there , totally gormless and I-know-it-all at the same time as only a fifth-year O-level repeat can be . |
| 25 | Emmie felt sorry for him and angry at the same time because he made things so difficult . |
| 26 | Both make-ups can be available at the same time and , so far as value goes , there is nothing to choose between them . |
| 27 | Von Frisch trained a scout bee to come to a source , and then placed out new sources at equal distances from the hive , but only one at the same direction as the original . |
| 28 | A prodigious runner , Mehew 's pace and fitness give Rovers the appearance of playing 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 at the same time and his willingness to get into the penalty area has brought him four goals already this season . |
| 29 | Whatever he was , she found him charming and exasperating at the same time and no , she did n't think her relationship would last because you ca n't keep mercury in your hand , not for long . |
| 30 | The market in government securities was drastically reformed in October 1986 at the same time as the general — Big Bang — reforms of security trading in Britain discussed in Chapter 2 above . |