Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 2 | By their reasons the justices stated that the girl would continue to be liable to sexual abuse if allowed to return to her family as the mother refused to recognise the responsibility of the father for that abuse and that the mother would not protect the girl from the father on whom the mother was emotionally dependent ; that they had considered that the girl might be cared for by her half-sister but had concluded that it would be difficult to prevent contact between the girl and her father ; that they had formed the view that contact between the girl and her father would be harmful at the present time and therefore the local authority should refuse such contact until the review by the local authority in six months time ; and that there should be supervised reasonable contact between the girl and her mother and between the girl and her half-sister . |
| 3 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 4 | Well I called a meeting but I did n't think I advertised it well enough because there was a lot of interest and then I think we held it at the wrong time as well did n't we , |
| 5 | But Brewer has an uncanny knack of getting injured at the wrong time and so hooker Sean Fitzpatrick will be in charge for the first time . |
| 6 | Many Danzigers felt that the Nazis could not help them , and at the same time that only the Nazis could help them ; they urged the Party on while at the same time distancing themselves from it . |
| 7 | It was the Indians who showed that man is capable of separating the two worlds and living in both of them , not at the same time but alternately . |
| 8 | Caccini also set the Euridice text at the same time and both works were published at once , though Caccini 's was not performed till 5 December 1602 . |
| 9 | Perhaps the second fragment had become detached at the same time and simply fallen to the ground where she had picked it up . |
| 10 | At the same time and again harking back to Durkheim , at least in the case of tribal societies we usually know very little of their past through lack of documentary sources , so we can ignore this ‘ conjectural history ’ . |
| 11 | Replacement of the eroded ragstone facing could have provided a problem were it not for the fact that the builder who was employed to undertake the conversion was dismantling an identically constructed church at Canterbury at the same time and thus it was possible to import salvaged ragstone from the demolition for re-use at All Saints and St Barnabas . |
| 12 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 13 | We got into pot at the same time , we got into acid at the same time and then there was more smack around than pot , so we got into that . |
| 14 | One friend has described him checking his wristwatch with an almost deliberate thoroughness : " He slowly and methodically raised his left hand and with his right hand carefully pushed back his coat sleeve and shirt sleeve at the same time and then painstakingly , at close range , studied the face of the dial . |
| 15 | Robyn swallowed and glanced out at the pouring rain , glanced at him , at the carved , arrogant profile that irked and thrilled her all at the same time and then at the rain again . |
| 16 | Or you could live there , rig up your personal computer and play the Stock Exchange and the Bourse at the same time and then nip over to the West End for a show . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ If we discover the SDLP and Alliance Party requested their meetings at the same time or later , there will be one major political row , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The issue , the point I 'm trying to make is that in talking for all of the bodies , whether I 'm talking about for the council or whether I 'm talking about them at the same time or separately , one thing I 'm not doing is talking from my point of view . |
| 19 | And other players were using the model at the same time or earlier , some as a bass ( eg. Bob Bogle of The Ventures ) and some as a lead instrument , such as Hank Marvin , Jet 's old colleague in The Shadows . |
| 20 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 21 | And we 're talking at the same time as well ? |
| 22 | Shearer was on the operating table at the same time as fit-again Gascoigne and his other international colleagues were preparing for tomorrow 's World Cup qualifier against San Marino . |
| 23 | An appeal has been launched for 1992 to raise a targeted £100,000 for youth cricket development , which will strengthen finances further at the same time as hopefully assuring a supply of talent for triumphs in the future . |
| 24 | Leaflets from different parties can be delivered at the same time as long as they are not folded together . |
| 25 | Course , Derek Weintraub just sat there , totally gormless and I-know-it-all at the same time as only a fifth-year O-level repeat can be . |
| 26 | Without any recourse to molecular interpretation Boltzmann proposed that " the forces which act on the surface of an elementary parallelepiped at the given time but also on the previous extensions , with the promise that the longer the time since they took place the smaller their effect . " |