Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] at the same " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , the higher taxes that are an inevitable counterpart of more government services not only act as a disincentive to saving and investment , but also " overload " the economy and crowd out opportunities for economic growth at the same time as the opening up of export markets and the defence of the home market is made ever more difficult by the inevitable inflation .
2 If your landlord fails to serve the Notice of Intention to Apply for Possession upon you then you may stay in your accommodation for another year at the same rent as the previous year .
3 Like having a husband die and leave you for another woman at the same time .
4 ( 56 ) … the nearest he dared go with the set of the sea rolling both ships towards each other at the same instant .
5 Changes within capitalism generate new forms of spatial organization at the same time as they create new forms of social organization .
6 It will be essential to work closely with the Scottish Development Department to ensure completion of the Regional and Trunk road sections of this project at the same time .
7 This makes the cortex lie flat , hence giving a smooth shiny finish , protecting your hair from the harsh blastings of hot air at the same time . ’
8 The arguments centred on scheduling , with Serbia and Montenegro insisting that referendums should take place in each republic at the same time and with the same questions , Croatia announcing that it had already scheduled its referendum for May 19 , Macedonia asking for a postponement of the deadline to mid-June , and Bosnia-Hercegovina suggesting that the referendum should take place in two stages .
9 The parties to the first application agreed that the same preliminary issue should be determined in that case at the same time .
10 ‘ You have to do it to prove you can hold a conversation and take part in physical activity at the same time .
11 Most records are of single birds , but up to five have been recorded in one area at the same time and there is possibly a tendency for groups of up to four to appear more often .
12 However , Drs Keith Brown and Mike Roberts found that nitric acid was produced from atmospheric nitrogen at the same time and that this was responsible for most of the damage .
13 Bourgeois Europe was or grew full of more or less informal systems for protection or mutual advancement , old-boy networks , or mafias ( ‘ friends of friends ’ ) , among which those arising from common attendance at the same educational institutions were naturally very important , especially the institutions of higher learning , which produced national rather than merely local linkages .
14 These two assumptions , when combined with Contrast , become equivalent to Markman 's ( 1984 ) principle of Mutual Exclusivity , and seem to reflect a fundamental factor in the organization of conceptual categories — namely , categories should be organized , at least initially , in non-overlapping fashion at the same level ( see also Shipley and Kuhn , 1983 , and Clark , in preparation ) .
15 That 's it for this week , until next week at the same time , good afternoon .
16 Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition .
17 The very fact that the supporters of federalism felt obliged to call a parallel conference on political union at the same time as the one of monetary union underlines that the two are inseparable .
18 Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute .
19 ‘ Now , sir , last market-day we met on this road at the same time , and I said ‘ Good night ’ and you answered ‘ Good night , Sir John ’ , as you did just now . ’
20 Work on anaerobic endurance at the same time that you are raising your aerobic platform .
21 Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon .
22 He nodded and there followed an awkward silence where Julie and Nina must have become aware of the tension , for they glanced at each other at the same moment as a patient arrived in the centre .
23 It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato .
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