Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [prep] the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macbeth defends but at the same time accuses himself ; ‘ Thou canst not say I did it : never shake/Thy gory locks at me ’ ( 50f . ) . |
| 2 | Teachers in ordinary schools need to be aware that some visually handicapped pupils may have these social needs while at the same time encouraging positive and enjoyable social interaction between pupils within the full range of vision . |
| 3 | Her eleventh novel , Gwendolen , has just been published and she says that for the first time she is writing for her soul . |
| 4 | She now does yoga , and says that for the first time in her life she wakes up feeling calm and generally finds that thinking positively works . |
| 5 | Someone who , through years of toil among parish registers , discerns and for the first time explains the minutiae of demographic change in a northern mill town , is clearly doing that sort of thing . |
| 6 | Sales of prime London properties are picking up and the latest quarterly bulletin from the London Research Centre shows that for the first time in over a year , average prices have not fallen . |
| 7 | The petition was accompanied by one from the magnates , who also sought the withdrawal of the tax on wool : it appears that for the first time since the Ordinances of 1310–11 the commons and the magnates were joining together to seek concessions and measures of reform from the king . |
| 8 | This means that for the first time doctors may be able to tell if an infected person who feels well is in danger of becoming ill , so that they can try to do something to prevent this . |
| 9 | The new draft Directive means that for the first time , EC legislation formally recognises Scottish Vocational Qualifications . |
| 10 | Instead of centring his analyses on the knowledge derived from the experience of the subject , Foucault investigates the conditions of emergence of the subject as the basis of knowledge ; he argues that at the same time as it was widely proposed as the one saving good of human civilization it also facilitated a more sinister operation . |
| 11 | The company claims that for the first time C++ developers will be able to reuse existing non object-oriented applications , by re-engineering C and Cobol code into objects . |
| 12 | The reason behind this two-stage approach is that it is often very difficult for the viewers of the demonstration to understand the principles of how a product works while at the same time watching it work . |