Example sentences of "[conj] at the same [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified . |
| 2 | The lifeworld is the intuitively present , in this sense familiar and transparent , and at the same time vast and incalculable web of presuppositions that have to be satisfied if an actual utterance is to be at all meaningful , that is valid or invalid . |
| 3 | The author manages very successfully to convey all his sadness and bitterness and at the same time great strength of his departure from this world without being verbose or over the top . |
| 4 | This can be a two-way flow ; a good home base can help to create contentment , and at the same time personal satisfaction in life will feed back into the home and make it a pleasant environment for others . |
| 5 | All were occasions of whole-hearted delight and enjoyment of God 's good gifts , and at the same time sober gatherings to seek his forgiveness and cleansing . |
| 6 | The ethical " problem " arises from the fact that Ethics is for us inevitable and at the same time impossible . |
| 7 | Were these two men both callous thugs who , as part of a gang , had shot a helpless postmaster in cold blood , and at the same time brilliant actors trying to con the world into believing they had n't ? |
| 8 | Growth in export markets has slowed down and at the same time new malting capacity has come on stream leading to a very competitive market place . |
| 9 | Latin America is not alone in the world in being an agricultural producer and at the same time dependent on imported foodstuffs . |
| 10 | I can not , it seems , both be aware of my hand and at the same time aware of that awareness . |
| 11 | In other cases there is land to spare and at the same time extreme population pressure plus unequal landholdings , such as in Brazil , where there is a constant stream of immigrants to the marginal lands of the North-East and to Amazonia . |
| 12 | An increase in exports would be particularly beneficial in that the balance of payments would improve and at the same time national income will rise by an amount greater than the initial increase in exports . |
| 13 | A trivial , and at the same time profound , corollary is that the results of supercomputing can not usefully be displayed as graphs or tables of numbers . |
| 14 | In Scotland , Irish imports were banned , and after the Union in 1707 the total ban on European imports extended to Scotland and at the same time free trade between England and Scotland was allowed . |
| 15 | Port books have been neglected in the past as a source for internal trade in the proto-industrial period because of the nature of the source — it is vast and at the same time problematic . |
| 16 | The point of preparation is to be well tuned and at the same time flexible to new interpretations and ideas . |
| 17 | And at the same time ashamed of the affliction that he had brought down on himself . |
| 18 | She came round to his chair and put her big arms around his neck , aware of what her flesh would feel like on his skin and at the same time ashamed to be self-conscious . |
| 19 | They saw tiny blue fogs in the shadows of trees and hedges , and at the same time bright sunshine in the fields . |
| 20 | ‘ His books taught me that poetry can be pure and profound , and at the same time popular . ’ |
| 21 | It has also stood Marx on his head , by transforming itself from a classless society into a caste society ( if at the same time gratifying Lenin 's hope that the intermediate stage of class society might be bypassed ) . |
| 22 | She was hopelessly confused , not wanting to lose Georg , but at the same time obsessed with the pull of Gesner . |
| 23 | A business must be kept profitable into the long-term future , but at the same time short-term profitability must be maintained to avoid the danger that the long term will never be reached , and the business liquidated or taken over . |
| 24 | Thus in the period 1950–70 new businesses provided 70 000 new jobs but at the same time other factory closures caused 50 000 people to lose their jobs . |
| 25 | Crouching below the plain embattled tower these ancient cottages , built with traditional rubble walling stone and roofing tiles , gave the old grey town a natural but at the same time haphazard unit . |
| 26 | Their insistence on selling only complete packages made the cost of buying the guides too expensive , but at the same time individual purchasing libraries have often gone on to modify the guides for local use ; and this is the greatest block to co-ordinated and centralized production — librarians prefer to prepare their own guides , tailor-made for their particular local needs . |
| 27 | It must be tight-fitting but at the same time easy to remove , for as the caterpillars grow they will consume enormous amounts of nettles . |
| 28 | Development there has been described by Lehmann as ‘ modernisation with fitful growth ’ , because the expansion of the state apparatus has meant modernisation in terms of growing bureaucracy and an increase in formal , at the expense of clientelist and personal , relationships at work but at the same time agricultural productivity has been erratic ( Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 29 | In Middle-earth he wanted a similar ultimate courage undiluted by confidence — but at the same time untainted by rage and despair . |
| 30 | In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant . |