Example sentences of "[be] at [art] same [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly before his death he complained with much justification that his Belgian subjects were refusing to receive from him as a gift benefits which the French were at the same moment extorting from Louis XVI by a great upheaval . |
| 2 | It is , moreover , an irony that these ministers ( Gaitskell , Jay , Wilson ) were at the same time preparing a Full Employment Bill which assumed a major capacity for planning within the government machine . |
| 3 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
| 4 | Mr Salmond said : ‘ I find it quite incredible that on the day this bungling Government is desperately trying to scramble out of a hole on pit closures , it is at the same time drilling itself into a well on oil jobs . |
| 5 | It is at the same time hovering between styles . |
| 6 | As the disturbance goes more deeply into the organism from the physical to the emotional plane , from the emotional to the mental and finally to the spiritual , it is at the same time becoming higher up in the organism as it is pictured diagrammatically in Figure 3 . |
| 7 | She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track . |
| 8 | Equally , St Paul 's , Shadwell , was at the same time looking for a £6 fee for each iron or lead coffin deposited within a brick-lined grave in the churchyard , though their most expensive intramural location commanded a charge of only £4 18s . |
| 9 | The family , for example , was at the same time tending to lose some of its authority and responsibilities . |
| 10 | Stewart Mason , Chairman of the NCDAD , was at the same time proposing to write to polytechnics and colleges with DipAD courses , in advance of a meeting of the London Colleges Alliance the following month , to raise the possibility of the two bodies ‘ getting closer together ’ , and suggesting that they would ‘ probably amalgamate ’ . |
| 11 | While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK . |
| 12 | Denis Thatcher , who was knocking golf balls into cups , was at the same time rehearsing his speech , to be delivered at lunch that Thursday to the Hove Rotary Club . |
| 13 | There was no longer any understanding that in making available advantages to private individuals the state was at the same time imposing a ‘ trust ’ that the business be conducted for the public good . |