Example sentences of "[noun sg] be at the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing . |
| 2 | It might be worth recalling Walter Benjamin 's view that there is always a verso and recto to history — each document of civilisation is at the same time a document of barbarism . |
| 3 | She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , if we adjust the above findings , they suggest that almost 40% of the public feel that mentally handicapped people should be segregated from the rest of society ; around the same proportion would dislike the idea of a mentally handicapped child being at the same school as their child and around 70% feel that mentally handicapped people should not be allowed to marry and have children . |
| 5 | We feel that , for an Englishman , to ask this question is at the same time to answer it . |
| 6 | They believe the garden centre business is at the same stage of development as DIY was a decade ago . |
| 7 | The same critical and questioning attitude which was forming the new approach to the Bible was at the same time stimulating scientific study and experiment and discovering the regularities in the natural order — what were and commonly still are called ‘ the laws of nature ’ . |
| 8 | Acts of nomination are at the same time acts of ‘ classification ’ . |
| 9 | Make sure the replacement water is at the same temperature as the pondwater — and this goes for the water in any temporary containers as well . |
| 10 | Smith , Gregg and Andrews ( 1989 ) devised the following ranking of selection methods with respect to their predictive validity : graphology and astrology were at the same level as chance prediction , references and interviews were a little higher , then structured interviews , then biodata , personality tests and assessment centres for performance , then ability tests and work sample tests and finally , at the highest level , assessment centres for promotion . |
| 11 | It is worth noting too that it can arise in different types of trust , either in a simple trust for restitution , for instance on death ; or in a continuing trust such as the fideicommissa familiae relicta discussed in Chapter IV , in which each successive beneficiary is at the same time a trustee for other family members . |
| 12 | The Kingdom is at the same time a heavenly as well as an earthly reality . |
| 13 | Culture always has an ideological function for consumerism in the capitalist global system , so all cultural transnational practices in this sphere are at the same time ideological practices , thus cultural-ideological . |
| 14 | If a body of liquid is at the same temperature throughout , it will remain still , unless someone comes along and stirs it up . |
| 15 | There was no longer any understanding that in making available advantages to private individuals the state was at the same time imposing a ‘ trust ’ that the business be conducted for the public good . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With this new configuration the acoustic centres of midrange and tweeter are at the same point so that their phase relationships have an exact match . |
| 18 | In Maxwell , the streams of particle and wave physics had begun to converge , with results that were to be disquieting ; but optics and the structure of matter were at the same time fruitfully interacting . |
| 19 | " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes . |
| 20 | To turn away from reality is at the same time to withdraw from the community of man . |
| 21 | According to the Confederation of British Industry , in 1980 when unemployment was at the same level as now , around 5% of firms were reporting skill shortages ; the equivalent figure in 1990 was around 25% . |
| 22 | The term economic hides the fundamental point that economic change is at the same time social change . |
| 23 | Each document is at the same time unique and existing in a thousand places . |
| 24 | The West German system is at the same time a plurality or " first-past.the-post " system , a list system and an additional member system : in short a mixed system , which may be conveniently designated in the following pages by the initials WGMS . |
| 25 | This is a zero-sum game ( particularly in the United States ) in that each occurrence of technical upgrading of a TNC plant in a developing country is at the same time proudly announced for host-country consumption by the TNC , and seized upon in the home country as evidence of job destruction . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | This sort of copy is at the same time description and interpretation , the salient points being brought out by the copyist , who gains greater understanding of a masterpiece by his work . |
| 28 | Reference has already been made ( p. 67 ) to the pattern by which the sexual or marital partner is at the same time the " good parent " ; the " good parent " approves and supports . |
| 29 | The Art Sales Index has compiled statistics which show that the art auction market is at the same level of turn-over as around 1986 . |
| 30 | In short , the office of collector of supply was at the same time highly desirable and extremely dangerous to political interests . |