Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the [adj] time [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 2 | A widespread factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for . |
| 3 | This year it has an improved range which again highlights the benefits of Torsion technology , although for the first time it 's combined with injected EVA , rather than firmer PU which turned some runners away . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | In a rare survey of local residents ' attitudes , the Kariels ( 1982 ) have found that in spite of the many negative aspects often ascribed to tourism , the overall evaluation of local inhabitants was strongly positive , although at the same time they wanted the landscape to retain its traditional character and felt that family life had been weakened by tourism . |
| 6 | This argument , which Foucault derives from Deleuze , although at the same time he tellingly invokes Sartre 's theoretical formulation designed to solve exactly the same problem , provides a way of avoiding the incommensurability of the relation of the event to the concept by allowing ‘ the disjunctive affirmation of both ’ — thus solving the problem that the concept , as a part of the language of generality , will inevitably travesty the event 's singularity : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In a provocative comparison of the failures of the French and Russian revolutions , he argued that the problem stemmed from the fact that no class , whether proletarian or bourgeoisie , can become the ruling class without taking upon itself something of the historical role of a ruling class — especially if at the same time it also considers that , history carries within itself its own cure' : |
| 9 | How can man make history if at the same time it is history which makes him ? |
| 10 | If at the same time he can affiliate his mid-field to the aspirations of his grass-root defenders , then Falkirk can indeed become a powerful team . |
| 11 | They were , nevertheless , dramatic or rather traumatic , because for the first time they came into deliberate and militant confrontation with the forces of tradition , conservatism and especially religion . |
| 12 | Bush said that although " there are some things in it I had to gag and digest " , he would sign it " because for the first time it makes significant and long-term cuts in federal spending that should have a positive impact on America 's economic future " . |
| 13 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 14 | How many days it was out of service and this that and the other and erm they used to send us an invoice on the mileage run because at the same time we knew what tyres were on the bus we had to inform them of any tyre changes and they kept records the same as us . |
| 15 | It was an historic statute since for the first time it provided a statutory power for the banning of marches and processions of protest and demonstration . |
| 16 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 17 | Thus , after four weeks on an eicosapentaenoic acid rich diet , the generation og PGE 2 and 6-keto-PGF 1 a by gastric mucosal specimens was significantly reduced , whereas at the same time we observed substantial generation of previously undetectable PGE 3 . |
| 18 | During our efforts to spread our ideas about girls ' work we encountered much anti-lesbianism , while at the same time we began to be challenged about our racism by Black women , among whom were some out Black lesbians . |
| 19 | While at the same time we might say of all of us that God in Christ took on a humanity which , with him , we share . |
| 20 | These codes set limits to meaning — ‘ objective possibilities ’ — while at the same time they leave open a space within which the operation of other elements in the music , its context and reception , can pull them into a more specific place in the network of social meaning , in line with the work of the articulating principles involved . |
| 21 | So , on the one hand , people are encouraged to reclaim traditional practices while at the same time they must come to terms with the abandonment of other , often related , traditional conceptions . |
| 22 | He became the rejecting father who never helped her , while at the same time she asked him to be mother and take over . |
| 23 | It was this lack of independence which so appalled her , while at the same time she knew , when it came down to fundamentals , that she had such a vulnerable appendage permanently dependent on her . |
| 24 | Off the field he is mild-mannered and dismissive of his achievements — though his verbal attack on an English journalist at the end of the 1989–90 tour was fulminating stuff — while at the same time he is intensely proud of his humble background , is very much a man of his people . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps we can come again tomorrow ? ’ he turned to suggest eagerly , while at the same time he took the opportunity to place one arm familiarly about her shoulders . |
| 26 | If anything , there was something almost tender in his look when , ‘ Poor drahá , ’ he murmured gently , while at the same time he moved a hand to where her shoulder-strap had fallen down , and put it back in place again . |
| 27 | Erm on paragraph twenty erm the government 's proposals will penalise all the camping which takes place outside recognised sites while at the same time I 've already said , removing any incentive or obligation for local authorities to provide enough sites anyway so i it 's , it 's a a total squeeze that on the one hand the government is restricting the number of pitches and then penalising everybody who has n't got one ! |
| 28 | This means , among other things , that the electoral system should be one that does not effectively disenfranchise large sections of the citizenry , while at the same time it must produce a government that will be both effective and accountable . |
| 29 | Increased immigration militated against the absorption of new arrivals in existing Shetlander networks ; while at the same time it was accompanied by the creation of new networks composed of incomers -incomers found shared interests in what they saw as a frontier zone . |
| 30 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |