Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] the same [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean , it can turn gold into copper while at the same time it is still gold , it makes men rich by destroying their possessions , it allows the weak to walk fearlessly among thieves , it passes through the strongest doors to leach the most protected treasuries . |
| 32 | My hon. Friends have made the good point that the Labour party is posing as the party of carbon dioxide reductions while at the same time it wants to force electricity generators to burn more coal , phase out the nuclear industry and , in its phrase , to ’ deter ’ the generators from using gas for power generation . |
| 33 | By the end of the fifteenth century Louis XII was already using French in his letters to other monarchs ( the only significant exception was Poland , whose ruler he wrote to in Latin ) , while at the same time it was the language of the imperial court under Maximilian I. The century or more which followed saw a tendency for it to be used increasingly as the language of diplomacy . |
| 34 | Stating that the 11th Mayfest would place greater emphasis on quality than quantity , Robson said the programme would strike a balance between new Scottish work and international attractions , while at the same time it would celebrate the talents of the local community . |
| 35 | HOW dare Norman Lamont decide the Queen should n't pay tax while at the same time there is talk of taxing people on invalidity benefit ? |
| 36 | At the ‘ top end ’ the peculiarly British mutual accommodation and interpenetration of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy has licensed an extension of the term ‘ middle class ’ until there is only a vestigial ‘ upper class ’ against which to draw a contrast , while at the same time there have been successive waves of new recruits which have enlarged the base of the ‘ class ’ : the new groups of professionals , managers and technical experts which expanded from the latter half of the nineteenth century onward with the development of capitalist industry and trade ; the more recent expansion of salaried employment in education , research , health , social welfare , administration and planning . |
| 37 | Whatever was affecting the rate time passed at seemed to obey the inverse square law , the phenomenon apparently radiating from each clock face , while at the same time there was a more generalised sort of effect emanating from the huge central mechanism buried somewhere in the castle 's many lower levels , making everything down there happen more quickly . |
| 38 | Over the past three years a large number of deep mines have closed , while at the same time there has been pressure to develop and expand the open-cast and private sectors of the industry . |
| 39 | Finally , if the rise in real output per capita is caused by an expansion of investment goods industries and public sector expenditures on the civil service and defence , while at the same time there is a decline in consumer goods industries , then current economic welfare may fall rather than rise . |
| 40 | James granted two Edinburgh businessmen a patent to set up a printing press and produce books at reasonable prices : a comfortable monopoly , since at the same time he proscribed the import into Scotland of any books printed abroad . |
| 41 | This has been done by an emphasis on individualism , self-help , hard work and thrift , whilst at the same time there has been an attack on collectivism and socialism as repressive and unworldly values . |
| 42 | Gironella seems to have been very confident about the change , as in the same year he was instrumental , together with Vlady and Héctor Xavier , in establishing a new art gallery in Mexico City , the Galeria Prisse . |
| 43 | For at the same time they still see no alternative to Tayif , and still see Aoun as the one great impediment in its way . |
| 44 | Theses are the people that cause the problems and I have had enough and when at the same time you do n't believe the slogans they are shotuing its time to leave the Labour Party . |
| 45 | If so , how does he justify the fear that there may be a number of fingers on the disintegrating Soviet strategic deterrent , when at the same time he seeks to justify the proliferation of nuclear strategic deterrents in the hands of France , the United Kingdom and the United States ? |
| 46 | As such , the ethnic minorities represent a major demographic strength for parts of urban Britain , though at the same time their presence may have hastened the exodus of better-off whites and certainly gives rise to a very difficult set of policy issues ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 47 | The Greeks found this agnostic approach yielded a sense of presence and bliss that transfigured their lives : it gave them the discipline to apprehend a reality infinitely greater than they could conceive , even though at the same time its absence was acutely felt . |
| 48 | Beads of blood appeared along the cuts , which alarmed me , though at the same time I could see that the wounds were superficial . |
| 49 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 50 | He was pretending that the errand was a nuisance , though at the same time he was grinning with pleasure at the thought of taking McIllvanney 's brand new sportsboat to sea . |
| 51 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |
| 52 | Tiger Watson was wounded ; Donald Roy killing his friend 's attacker , for this was a personal battle of man against man in the shadows , even though at the same time there was the impersonal hammer from machine-guns and 20mm cannons firing from beyond the basin and its locks . |