Example sentences of "[subord] at the same [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 61 | This is because the tetanus maintains the neuron in a more depolarized state , which in turn reduces the extent of the Mg 2+ -induced block of NMDA channels , while at the same time providing the L-glutamate which promotes their opening . |
| 62 | To boost business and enhance the market 's appeal to retail investors LTOM introduced firm price quotations on screen for retail orders of up to ten contracts ( 10,000 shares ) while at the same time providing volume as well as price information . |
| 63 | Caroline Scott 's circular set , with its floor patterned like a spiralling cockle shell , flanked by two ascending balustrades , is simple but evocatively conjures up the lighthouse , while at the same time providing an interesting setting for the action to work in and whirl around . |
| 64 | A method for toning down after concentrating on the outside of the body , while at the same time exercising the internal organs , was invented by the old Chinese masters . |
| 65 | On one hand the public demands ever more complex and advanced technology while at the same time mistrusting and denigrating the scientific/technological base that helps to produce today 's high standard of living in the developed world . |
| 66 | In 1978 for example the Trades Union Congress ( TUC ) passed a resolution calling for government action to promote technological change while at the same time ameliorating the impact of such change on existing employment . |
| 67 | Each of us should ask for the wisdom necessary to appreciate the opportunities which developments in modern communications technology offer for serving God and his people , while at the same time recognizing the challenges such progress inevitably poses . |
| 68 | Combining relative novelty with practicality , it seemed evidently constructive as a way of repaying society for a wrong done , while at the same time bringing the offender within reach of the voluntary organizations which are a peculiarly English way of providing services of value to a wider community . |
| 69 | After all , taking such subjects in higher education would apparently improve women 's prospects of gaining jobs , while at the same time filling an enormous gap in the labour market . |
| 70 | There is , I believe , a strong case for encouraging more administrators from the developing countries to participate in seminars of that sort , while at the same time trying to reduce the very heavy demand that would make on the time of people primarily engaged in other tasks . |
| 71 | First , how to persuade other member states not to insist on proposals which take us down the federal route and , second , how to avoid agreeing to wording which would be inconsistent with the wishes of the British parliament and electorate , while at the same time trying to reach an agreement . |
| 72 | Sunny 's two children from a previous marriage brought the case against Claus and have continued to make sure their mother 's story is kept in the lime light , ( they opposed this film though ) , while at the same time trying to hide the truth about their mother — that she was a pill-potting drunk who injected herself regularly . |
| 73 | Consider , first , a theory which takes its clue from Leibniz , while at the same time trying to dispense with Leibniz 's dubious metaphysics . |
| 74 | But consider now a different theory which takes its clue not from Leibniz but from Kant , while at the same time trying to eliminate the main causes of the difficulties and problems that bedevil Kant 's own approach . |
| 75 | Life for a single parent was never easy — struggling to cope with the demands of a new baby , while at the same time trying to hold down a job . |
| 76 | British Communists continued to blame the Social Democrats for Hitler 's victory while at the same time trying to organize common anti-Fascist activities between Communists and the Left of the Labour movement . |
| 77 | Before giving his information on the Czech team 's tactics , he hedges twice ( I realize it 's none of my business ' and " … you may think I " m an absolute ass , but … " ) , apologising in advance for giving them potentially faulty advice and for threatening their negative face , while at the same time criticising ( in Leechian terms , " maximising the dispraise of " ) himself for doing so ( p. 59 ) . |
| 78 | John Wheatley had argued as much in the Second Reading of the 1925 Bill , while at the same time criticizing the sum of 10s 0d as inadequate . |
| 79 | The unequal distribution of resources in stratified societies enables the better-off to obtain privileged access to educational facilities to have their talent developed , while at the same time disadvantaging those at the bottom . |
| 80 | This gave me the opportunity of using homoeopathy in a general practice setting , while at the same time dealing with more chronic cases at the hospital where we had a consultant gynaecologist , an ENT surgeon and a consultant general surgeon , each operating once a week . |
| 81 | By turning a blind eye to the activities of moderate Puritan laymen and clergy while at the same time dealing harshly with Presbyterian extremists , king and archbishop ensured that the first fifteen years of Abbot 's primacy were some of the most tranquil in the religious sphere during the entire century following the break with Rome ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 82 | Intended as a ‘ slight inversion of the notion of the sexuality of the road movie ’ , says Giannaris , which is ‘ usually set in a heterosexual context ’ , his bizarre love triangle manages in the midst of its labyrinthine sexual politics to recall Kerouac , Ginsburg and the Beat Generation while at the same time exploring gay sexuality against the backdrop of the American mid-west . |
| 83 | Dobry therefore had a difficult task of reconciling apparently irreconcilable objectives : to expedite planning procedures while at the same time facilitating greater public participation and devising a system which would produce better environmental results . |
| 84 | We used Cox proportional hazards models to compare the incidence of coronary heart disease and total mortality according to the state of dental health at baseline while at the same time controlling for several potential confounding variables . |
| 85 | In a campaign characterized by televised smears and counter-smears but which appeared not to excite the expected level of public interest , Labour managers stressed the readiness of party leader Itzhak Rabin to move ahead decisively with the Middle East peace process , while at the same time emphasising his hardline credentials . |
| 86 | Their visits break many of the established patterns of human/dolphin encounter : they accept gifts of dead fish ( one theory is that the dolphins receive the fish as a signal from humans that they have come to play and interact ) , and they maintain their own social grouping while at the same time allowing close human contact . |
| 87 | Thus the Vatican Declaration can freely admit that the former reasons for not ordaining women are now discredited , while at the same time pointing to the constancy of the tradition . |
| 88 | In short , a parliament must both support and supervise government , while at the same time maintaining itself as the focus of political debate and , above all , as the instrument for political change , by offering the electorate a credible alternative government . |
| 89 | As members of a minority faith group in a predominantly Muslim country , Christian writers and publishers strive to express their beliefs without compromise , while at the same time maintaining an open dialogue with all sectors of the population . |
| 90 | Thus the task required the children to infer the intention , on the basis of knowledge of the result and of the action-result relation , while at the same time maintaining the distinction between the intention and the result . |