Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] at the [det] time " in BNC.

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31 As a consciousness which is objectively necessary and yet at the same time false , as the intertwining of truth and falsehood , which is just as distinct from the whole truth as it is from the pure lie , ideology belongs , if not to a modern economy , then , in any case , to a developed urban market economy .
32 The showmen were men of their time and they knew how easy it was to tell stories that would be sympathetic to the common man , that would condemn all truly evil men and their agencies , and yet at the same time would do nothing other than confirm existing social values .
33 Their conditions of work bring people together more than ever before , in factories , offices and towns ; and yet at the same time these people are isolated from one another .
34 She hesitated , sadly , desperately anxious to accept , absurdly delighted that he had asked her , that he had so coolly bothered to cross the room to ask her , and yet at the same time horrified by the thought of displaying herself , by the thought of dragging her hideous dress from its hole-in-the-corner obscurity , by the thought of dancing at all , for she did not know how to dance .
35 She was sad in advance , and yet at the same time all the happier , doubly happy , for knowing that she recognized her happiness , that it was not slipping by her unheeded , for knowing that she was creating for herself a past .
36 But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's .
37 So she agreed to that bargain , and for a few days more kept the secret to herself , still hopeful that she might be mistaken , and yet at the same time aware of a feeling of inner triumph at the knowledge that she had her very own baby growing inside her womb .
38 and yet at the same time he yearns for something beyond sight .
39 When she thought about them , she saw devils as small creatures with hooves and a tail , horned and two-legged and yet at the same time resembling tadpoles .
40 All the blood drained from Folly 's face as she listened , straining for the meaning that eluded her ears , and yet at the same time knowing that there could be no innocent explanation .
41 Her initial instinct was to hit out at him in violent retaliation , the insults unendurable and unanswerable in any other way , and yet at the same time , some still , small place of recognition at the centre of all that red-hot emotion was acknowledging the kernel of truth hidden within the offensive words .
42 Quite convinced that meeting you would dispel the fantasy , and yet at the same time did n't want that to happen at all .
43 He must be sagacious and have good judgement , be patient and yet at the same time firm in maintaining the interests of the ruler he represented .
44 And yet at the same time , the electronic revolution offers to the Library 's Special Collections and to our readers , great opportunities to use our unique research collections in new and enlightening ways .
45 I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing .
46 Our duty is to secure the best return we possibly can or on , on our investments and yet at the same time to have regard to the aims and objectives of the Council itself .
47 His deliberately quiet voice , and the apparent detachment with which his hands were moving over her body , frightened her and yet at the same time heightened the eroticism of the moment .
48 This deeper controversy sustains the debate between liberal interpretations of the modern law of contract , but paradoxically at the same time demonstrates its pointlessness .
49 But somehow at the same time I am washing myself — I 'm trying to get the filth off myself .
50 The other main formulation is the rule of acting in such a way that you treat humanity , whether in your own person or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end .
51 We ought , he said , to ‘ treat humanity whether in your own person , or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end ’ ( Kant , 1948 , para. 429 ) .
52 At its best such a book will not only provide a satisfying solution to the murder puzzle which it still must have , but also at the same time the solution of the mystery should reveal finally what it was the novel had to say .
53 Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 )
54 I base this theory on having seen the fish both distressed and inflated , but never at the same time .
55 I 've had tons of guitars , but never at the same time — I never had enough money to have them all at once . ’
56 Sometimes Matthew or Luke depart from Mark 's order of events but never at the same time together and they always return to it .
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