Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) . |
| 2 | Obviously it is likely to be quiet in an empty hall or in a field ; it is likely to be noisy when a crowd of people are talking together all at the same time . |
| 3 | Most of the young cast of both Taps and The Outsiders , with some honorary additions to the Pack , have continually worked together — though not necessarily all at the same time — in films like Rumble Fish , The Breakfast Club , St Elmo 's Fire , and Young Guns . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Why they were so good and why they were so bad at the same time . ’ |
| 6 | Leaving aside the issue of sovereignty — not of the House but of the people to self-government — the devil of the single currency is not merely that the economies of the Community are simply not convergent and would be prevented from converging by a single currency , but that they are not all at the same point in their economic cycles . |
| 7 | Surely not all at the same time , Reynolds thought , and turned to the summary of Jenner 's thesis work . |
| 8 | The hot sting of tears pricked painfully at her eyes as the agony of hating him and yet wanting him so desperately all at the same time overwhelmed her . |
| 9 | ‘ Michael Gambon is a fine enough actor to convey that charisma while being utterly ruthless at the same time . ’ |
| 10 | It is possible to cope with one of these legs being shaky and under pressure but not two at the same time . |
| 11 | As in the case of true ESSs , it is possible for more than one strategy to be collectively stable at the same time . |
| 12 | Perhaps peter Fuller 's Theoria ( 1988 ) , a call for a return to earnest Ruskinian values by a critic who had lost his faith in Modernism , contrives to be theoretical and distinctively British at the same time ; but that is the work of an art critic . |
| 13 | I asked , fiery with embarrassment , and yet intensely curious at the same time . |
| 14 | Birth and death , the ultimate holding and letting go , were paradoxically present at the same moment . |
| 15 | The signature must be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses , both present at the same time . |
| 16 | He thought with pleasure of his sister 's elegant face with the skin that always had a gleam and yet was softly , darkly creamy at the same time . |
| 17 | Mortality of the babies of aristocrats fell from about 160 to about 100 at the same time . |
| 18 | Yes , rather beautifully arranged , with their poor little wings stretched out all at the same angle . |
| 19 | There is not much point , in these circumstances , in sending the material out all at the same time . |
| 20 | The top of the stone was now all at the same level . |
| 21 | Often all at the same time . |
| 22 | ‘ But it was really fun at the same time . |
| 23 | But also , and for architects of this period more importantly , the silhouette created by the plan had the advantage of being symmetrical and romantically complex at the same time . ’ |
| 24 | Do not throw energy out of the windows — How unEnglish the phrasing was ; logical yet fanciful at the same time . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm not sure if I can wait the length of time it will take — but since you seem to believe that you can … ’ he added in an ironic mutter , and shrugged , the gesture oddly dismissive and yet decisive at the same time . |
| 26 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 27 | When the time comes for expansion , new houses can be added either to work alongside present flocks , i.e. added at the same time as existing houses , or slotted in-between , to give a more even flow . |
| 28 | Glasgow was very pretty in the 18th century , pretty impassable at the least sign of rain . |
| 29 | ‘ Visitors are very important and I love having people here , though I don ‘ t want to have too many at the same time . |
| 30 | She 's very tough and very sweet at the same time . |