Example sentences of "[adv] at [art] [adj] time be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 2 | First , if holism and individualism are to be distinct , causation and autonomy must be mutually exclusive categories : if the autonomous character of action is to stand in the way of the truth of determinism , actions can not at the same time be caused . |
| 3 | As we shall see , if the interest rate is used to control exchange rates , it can not at the same time be used to achieve money supply targets . |
| 4 | It should be clear that a God who was simply ‘ outside ’ the world in the way that the President of France was ‘ outside ’ Britain could hardly at the same time be present in it . |
| 5 | A further example of national information about which local managers were unable to act came with the expanding of the National Diploma level of BTEC in schools : when it was shown that there did not have to be an exclusive choice of BTEC and A levels and that to offer both at the same time was not only permissible but also helpful , the manager was able to make new local choices . |
| 6 | ‘ Keeping the bend and making Benji move sideways at the same time is not easy , ’ she said . |
| 7 | Industrial developers and housebuilders complain bitterly about the rate at which land is fed into the development pipeline , yet at the same time are dependent on planning to provide a degree of certainty and support for profitable investment . |
| 8 | The work of art was especially fitted to reveal this , since its audience may both criticize , yet at the same time be involved in , its enactment . |
| 9 | They may want to control the media capable of reaching large sections of the population , yet at the same time be suspicious of the power these media possess : power which is ultimately beyond their control . |
| 10 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |