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

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1 That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology .
2 Servants too ought to be diligent and refrain from gaming and other dissolute pursuits , although at the same time they were fully entitled to ‘ competent wages and clothing with trew payments of the same ’ .
3 In a rare survey of local residents ' attitudes , the Kariels ( 1982 ) have found that in spite of the many negative aspects often ascribed to tourism , the overall evaluation of local inhabitants was strongly positive , although at the same time they wanted the landscape to retain its traditional character and felt that family life had been weakened by tourism .
4 A series of very guarded letters written in July and August 1559 between them and Elizabeth 's leading minister , William Cecil , shows that they were contemplating at the very least an outright challenge to the regent 's authority — a bold enough but not actually unprecedented step — but possibly something more , and infinitely more sensational , the deposition of the queen herself ; and at the same time they were proposing a dramatic reversal of foreign relations , in which Scottish friendship would certainly be switched from her traditional ally France to her traditional enemy England , and that even closer ties between Scotland and England might be envisaged .
5 Thus the singers know the parts of at least twenty operas which are performed in turn , and at the same time they study a new one .
6 They would be more effective and useful ; and at the same time they could be employed to reflect a new approach to the balance of education for which I have argued .
7 They want to be treated with respect and reverence ; and at the same time they expect equality with men , complete emancipation , and to compete in every form of masculine activity .
8 They felt they were working hard enough to make their hearts stronger and at the same time they were stretching their bodies sufficiently to reach their deeper muscles .
9 She caught sight of Ernest and Charlotte in the crowd and at the same time they saw her .
10 Here they grow tomatoes and lettuce to provide valuable nutrients and at the same time they 're learning to grow vegetables in a way their parents did n't know how .
11 But there is no reason why community services should n't be more expensive than hospitals if at the same time they are enhancing the quality of people 's lives .
12 But at the same time they looked sublimely elegant .
13 When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire .
14 They are certainly comfortable and assured , but at the same time they have no real chance of converting others to their views , at least if conversion means more than expressing the hope that God will send faith to others too .
15 13:31–35 ) give an implied warning of the dangers attending numerical growth , but at the same time they confirm that such growth is characteristic of the Kingdom of God ’ ( IRM July 1968:299 ) .
16 ‘ They change , manipulate and subvert ready-made products , but at the same time they are the apothesis of consumerism and an ideal workforce for contemporary capitalism .
17 The shapes of birds themselves can be fairly simple ; but at the same time they are subtle .
18 Additions such as these certainly enrich the idea of the longue durée ; but at the same time they complicate it by broadening the notion of constraint on which it depends and obscuring its relationship with conjonctures .
19 Not only did their desire for greater freedom at university lead them into conflict with the authorities , but at the same time they responded to issues of much wider social significance raised by the ‘ revolutionary situation ’ of 1859–61 , the massacre of peasants protesting against the terms of Emancipation , the repression of radical journalists such as Chernyshevsky .
20 They disliked British interference , but at the same time they appreciated that the British they appreciated that the British presence on Persian countered what would otherwise have been over whelming Russian influence .
21 In 1806 he designed the hotel and assembly rooms in the suburb of Clifton , which the firm contracted to build ; but at the same time they were speculating by buying unfinished houses in Clifton which they completed and sold , and in 1809 they were overtaken by bankruptcy .
22 Members of the Soviet government ( the Council of Ministers ) were essentially administrative heads of ministries , but at the same time they were party members , and a few of them may even have been members of the Politburo .
23 Of course , the houses were built out of necessity , but at the same time they were inevitably a speculation .
24 Does he agree that the collections are vast and have often been assembled at very little cost , but at the same time they are the treasures of the night watchmen ?
25 It is all very well for the Government to pretend to mount a campaign against drugs and drug imports , but at the same time they have allowed another Department , the Treasury — Conservative Members do not want to hear — to cut 400 customs officer jobs .
26 War conditions added to the general impetus for change but at the same time they also inhibited change .
27 Counts can be seen as royal servants ; but at the same time they used their position to entrench their local power .
28 but at the same time they should n't just be looking at the subjects in isolation
29 These codes set limits to meaning — ‘ objective possibilities ’ — while at the same time they leave open a space within which the operation of other elements in the music , its context and reception , can pull them into a more specific place in the network of social meaning , in line with the work of the articulating principles involved .
30 So , on the one hand , people are encouraged to reclaim traditional practices while at the same time they must come to terms with the abandonment of other , often related , traditional conceptions .
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