Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at the [adj] time " in BNC.

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31 Their heroes reflect their psychological needs ; disappointed by the weak father , they not only look for a strong one but try to identify with men who fulfil at the same time infantile and sadistic fantasies , such as Che Guevara or Mao Tsetung …
32 I enclose herewith a photocopy of my suggested replies to the various categories , with the exception of ‘ What is your planned use of reserves ? ’ and ‘ What is your Regional charge on band D of the Council Tax ? ’ , both of which I will leave for you to insert at the appropriate time .
33 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 .
34 We are nibbling , we 're constantly nibbling , we nibbled at the last time , and Councillor on our behalf has nibbled at it as well , erm , a report , erm
35 Er , obviously on a more serious note , er it was very disappointing that we had such a severe er downturn in profitability last year after several years of steadily rising profits , and so what I want to do this morning was tell you a little bit about what happened in the last part of the year , since we met at the time of the interim results presentation last September , tell you the actions that have been taken and give you a little bit of insight as to where we stand at the present time .
36 Then we move at the same time .
37 Erm I have already referred sir to the investigations which are proceeding with regard to the ability to erm , as it were , encourage er this er amphibian to go to other ponds , and I would again call your attention to the state of the knowledge we have at the present time , which is that that is not possible .
38 Erm power stations source of energy you see , one of the biggest sources of energy that we have at the present time next twenty years
39 Of course at the moment environmental health is very much an in subject , especially with the Environmental Protection Act of 1990 , and your profession has the marvellous opportunity of seeking to safeguard the environment and also the threats that we have at the present time which are upon the environment , from so many sources but , most of all particularly in the eastern counties , from the population explosion , which we here in South Cambridgeshire know quite a bit about .
40 And so it goes on through life ; always a struggle between wanting to hold on to what we have at the same time as we are reaching out for new joys and satisfactions ; always the dilemma of making choices , of greedily wanting everything , of resenting having to let anything go .
41 It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time .
42 Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining .
43 ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time .
44 But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged .
45 In other words , they appear at the same time at widely separated localities .
46 In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience .
47 All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time .
48 They arrived at the same time ! ’
49 Enabling self-expression allows counsellees to explain to us where they stand at the present time .
50 Now the , the pensions when they raised at the same time , because we only pension raised every year , and we 're up there at that particular time at the Lothian region , a full council meeting .
51 Through the Declaration of Ilo , the two presidents committed Bolivia and Peru to implement the terms of the Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz bilateral framework agreement , which they signed at the same time , for economic co-operation between the two countries .
52 There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ?
53 We have the county council and the district councils telling us what a good job they do at the present time , spending a lot of money in doing it , we have provided this largely out of our own efforts , we 've got grants from er other bodies , I think it 's something that we should properly erm hallmark as an initiative of this parish council to celebrate one hundred years of parish government , and I would propose centenary field .
54 They spoke at the same time .
55 The proper word is , come from a very long word , a real mouthful , phenylketonuria , known as P K U for short P U , and Mr Guffbry developed this test specifically to diagnose this condition , but in nineteen ninety two there are other conditions which they diagnose at the same time with the same blood test , do you know what they are ?
56 Is that the only child they have at the present time ?
57 So what do you think about the overall situation as it stands at the present time ?
58 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 .
59 It seems , then , that not only may an entrepreneur-producer be a monopolist because he happens at the same time to be a monopolist resource owner , he may be a monopolist because he has made himself a monopolist resource owner in the course of his entrepreneurial activities .
60 It came at the right time .
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