Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] time [pers pn] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 2 | About the same time it was recommended that the church at Seagoe should be removed to Edenderry for the greater convenience of the parishioners , a suggestion not implemented . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the same time they 're faced with that particular problem repeatedly . |
| 5 | For example , it can be argued the expansion into amalgamated police units has enlarged the organization to a point where it is no longer accessible to the man in the street ; alternatively , it may be that the use of a centralized computer and complex technical aids has alienated the public even at the same time they are increasingly fed a diet of violent news snippets which reinforce a fear of crime and generate another ‘ folk devil ’ of criminal menace , which demands the impossible : a policeman on every corner . |
| 6 | At the same time they are told they must shoulder bigger world responsibilities . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | The shapes of birds themselves can be fairly simple ; but at the same time they are subtle . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At the same time they were given standard L.C.C . |
| 14 | At the same time they were consistent with a Clapham-style leadership . |
| 15 | To say they were worshipped would be overstating the case but , as in so many cultures where people are dependent on an animal for existence ( the Plains Indian and the buffalo , for example ) , the forerunners of the modern Koi were respected at the same time they were exploited . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Of course , the houses were built out of necessity , but at the same time they were inevitably a speculation . |
| 20 | We 're still limited by sexism , but at the same time we 're bombarded with images telling us that we have to achieve a lot . |
| 21 | At the same time we are faced with the dilemma that these theories appear to be mutually exclusive : does this mean that the peace movement should take a cynical ‘ supermarket ’ attitude to attempts to theorise law and take from the shelves whatever theoretical package is best suited to the purpose ? |
| 22 | At the same time we are exploring the possibility of establishing an Aby Warburg Chair , to be held by people in any of the subjects which play a role in that scholarly tradition . |
| 23 | At the same time we are worried about the mounting costs of the social services intended to meet the needs of the aged There are several reasons why the problem appears to be particularly acute at the moment and some of the more important ones need stating . |
| 24 | Pedro Campos , project manager said , ‘ We are aware that a country going into the America 's Cup for the first time has never done well , but at the same time we are going there to win ; no-one knows about the class . ’ |
| 25 | We must rely , as heretofore , upon the social acumen of the judges ; but at the same time we are entitled perhaps to ask for a little more boldness in the formulation of principles . |
| 26 | ‘ At the same time we are addressing the fundamentals of our business ; how to find oil and gas reserves at lower cost and how to develop them more profitably ’ . |
| 27 | I would like to say that , that the level of violence has been fairly static , but at the same time we are able to tolerate certain levels of violence . |
| 28 | We 've launched an appeal , at the same time we are sending out large stocks of water supply and water storage equipment , shelters and blankets . |
| 29 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 30 | The SJ-20 's general tone is rich and deep , but at the same time it 's still quite a controlled and well-balanced instrument ; I 'd say it falls somewhere between the ‘ Martin' and ‘ Guild ’ camps in character of sound . |