Example sentences of "[was/were] at [art] [adj] time a " in BNC.
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1 | Those observations were applicable to the present case : the appellant was at the present time a dangerous young man for whom a determinate sentence was not appropriate . |
2 | Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate . |
3 | He was a straightforward patriot , and , most of all , a man of action , who was at the same time a man of natural sensitivity towards suffering . |
4 | There was at the same time a dramatic decline in the amount of milk produced by urban cattle-keepers and supplied by road . |
5 | The modernist and Nietzschean devastation of the idea of historical progress was at the same time a devastation of assumptions of order , authority , stability , consonance , and repose . |
6 | The occupation forces in the territory of defeated enemies might be seen as temporary inconveniences , but there was at the same time a natural tendency to acquire overseas bases from which to extend the reach of America 's armed forces . |
7 | Yes , if I can just interject something here which I think is rather striking , when one used to go on holiday on the Continent , going to church was at the same time a bewildering an exciting experience because you could n't understand what was going on . |
8 | First her challenge to the primacy of ‘ meaning ’ and support of ‘ cool ’ rather than ‘ expressive ’ aesthetic assumptions was at the same time an advocacy of the collapse of some sort of deep level of signified into the signifier . |
9 | This ‘ explosion of the instincts ’ was at the same time an explosion of contingency into the world of order . |