Example sentences of "[conj] at the same [noun] a " in BNC.

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1 Thus a man who could have done all sorts of good things is rendered useless ; and the same sort of outcome could follow in a case involving not one but two men , or a hundred or more , or even a whole branch of a family ( progenies ) or at the same time a whole province — if you 're not very careful ! " ( c. 31 )
2 A rift has opened between realism and something beyond , and at the same time a link has been forged between Dostoevsky 's favourite phrase , the deeper realism , and my own apocalyptic naturalism .
3 And at the same time a paltry £5 million a year is available for all archaeological survey , conservation and management .
4 She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease .
5 This object , discourse , is at once an empirical phenomenon recognizable without a particular theory , and at the same time a theoretical object that is amenable to analysis .
6 The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours .
7 They hatch very quickly and at the same time a new generation of workers and soldiers emerge from the stored pupae .
8 It is perhaps because they are both unique and at the same time a faithful continuation of ancestral traditions that oriental rugs are objects of allure and fascination for the West .
9 It has n't escaped anyone 's notice that a former senior official of the Great Criminal goes on the run , and at the same time a series of murders begins of the children of other former officials of the Great Criminal .
10 Whereas the earlier , Shklovskian view had been that form itself was a defamiliarizing agent , this subtler later development introduces a more dynamic and at the same time a more coherent notion of the literary work .
11 It offers an impressive teaching faculty , and at the same time a small college atmosphere .
12 Has begun , I should say , to feel a little proprietorial about Serafin , in the way we do about our masters , and at the same time a little protective .
13 Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work .
14 There seems to be a common thread here — a desire to rise above northern grim limits into a world of sleek , cosmopolitan opportunity , and at the same time an anxiety to retain one 's roots .
15 Neither a sociological nor a psychological type , he represents an assemblage of mental attitudes , providing a kind of vade-mecum and at the same time an ironic counterpoint to the anxieties of a public that is presumed by the book itself to have lost faith in totalizing explanations and englobing narratives .
16 The union agreement relevant to this case contained provisions for a shortened working week and at the same time an increase in monthly salary for full-time employees .
17 An uncomfortable inner part appears , and at the same time an awkward leap across the strings between the last semiquaver of bar 4 and the first of bar 5 in the top part gives us pause .
18 Sacher said that the StB had been " a product and at the same time an instrument of the former totalitarian power " .
19 May the MEDAU SOCIETY continue to blossom , grow and stay alive — it is an example for us and at the same time an inspiration to continue our work for the benefit of people everyone .
20 The kind of attention that we usually associate with love or hate , and at the same time an acute awareness of limits , of closed worlds , of helplessness , of traps of unsatisfiable longing — the sort of awareness that we associate rather with pity or fear .
21 This indicates an acceptance of the state structures , or a recognition of a need for the separation of Northern Ireland from the remaining state structure of Ireland , but at the same time a continuing opposition to protestant — loyalist dominance .
22 But at the same time a claim is being made concerning factual evidence about God 's existence .
23 DesignaKnit is easy to use — but at the same time a well-designed package with an excellent range of options .
24 We have treated it as a subject , but at the same time a method , the principal method whereby education may achieve its ultimate aim of giving a wide outlook on life .
25 There is a corresponding and no less seminal change in painting : the abandonment of the single ground line on which all figures rest ; a change which makes painting no longer simply the decoration of a flat surface but at the same time a feigned window on the three-dimensional world .
26 The term ‘ community ’ implies a diversity but at the same time a certain organized uniformity in the units .
27 A fair painting ; free in style but at the same time a good likeness .
28 So she was relieved , but at the same time a little chagrined when he did n't stop the car at all but drove her to the bottom of the footpath that led up to the Hoflin farm .
29 The ability of the counsellor to be part of a group , fully involved and an interested party , but at the same time an ‘ observer ’ , may appear to be more difficult than it really is .
30 A heavy bank of clouds , very dark and tinged with deep red and purple , was creeping across the sky , while at the same time a lower bank was moving rapidly in the opposite direction .
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