Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [conj] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Another significant area of outstanding work is late benefit applications which total over 30,000 at the present time although some of these are speculative and some also apply to Community Charge as well as Council Tax . |
| 2 | CD trials , with teachers who are new both to the unit and to the computer system , are important at the present time because most teacher users will be in this category . |
| 3 | you do have to remember at the same time that these documents would be going home and |
| 4 | At the same time that this mischief is done , the wood itself is ( timber excepted ) but of a miserable account , as any one may suppose , when he is informed , that these shaws have a fence only on one side , and consequently are exposed to be eaten by the cattle that graze in the fields ; hence there is an imperfect system of wood , an injured one of corn , and wretched fences ; by aiming at too much , nothing arrives at perfection . |
| 5 | Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves . |
| 6 | ‘ You see , one of the advantages of being dead is that one is released as it were from the bonds of time and therefore I can see everything that has happened or will happen , all at the same time except that of course I now know that Time does not , for all practical purposes , exist . ’ |
| 7 | Realising that if any modules which they want to read are offline , then this will result in a delay to all modules requested at the same time while those offline are brought back online . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) The loans must be to defray expenditure incurred in acquiring ordinary share capital of a close company complying with s13A(2) as described above , or in lending to such a close company where the money loaned is used wholly and exclusively for the purpose of its business or the business of any of its associated companies provided the latter are also close companies satisfying the conditions of s13A(2). ( 3 ) When interest is paid on the manager 's loan , Newco must continue to comply with s13A(2) — this means it must continue to satisfy the relevant purpose test rather than that it should continue to remain a close company ; in the case of a purchase of shares in Target , the reason why Newco should be close after the institutions commit to invest is to ensure that institutions and management can invest at the same time and that , at that time , Newco is both close and satisfies the relevant purpose test , ie already controls Target ; management can not commit Newco to acquiring Target until the institutions have committed to funding Newco , and once they have so committed the institutions are likely to control Newco under s416 , so a structure is needed whereby management also controls Newco at this point . |
| 9 | no , only through the headmasters only , and that was er originally when we always exams at the same time and that was done as a school policy not science department ! |
| 10 | at the same time and that 's it . |
| 11 | you know they might as well go to the toilet at the same time and all this sort of stuff and yet a little bit of information about that , how long does it take to put together ? and various other things you know where 's the staff manual kept I mean when I joined , I did n't know purchase and this sort of stuff . |
| 12 | Erm the R M I F bloke was there and he said that 's the second one he 's been to where they 've been doing the training and the launch at the same time and neither of them 've gone well . |
| 13 | It was unfortunate that the Arab-Israeli war broke out at the same time and some overseas commentators took the presence of Canberras in this guise as proof of British participation in the war ! |
| 14 | It is quite difficult to align all the spacers at the same time and several attempts may be needed . |
| 15 | It is one of the paradoxes of contemporary political thinking that at the same time as much conventional theory has tried to restrict the idea of democracy to that of choosing a government from competing elites , it is also widely admitted that the theoretical sovereignty of these democratic governments is not in fact matched by their actual powers over society , particularly in relation to the vast conglomerate firms and multi-national companies on whose policies and decisions the employment and livelihood of so many millions now depend . |
| 16 | Like Hornblower , whose temperament was delighting readers with its contradictions at the same time as that of the Quinn adventures , Septimus has adopted certain measures of what could be called self-defence . |
| 17 | If the pot-au-feu is for a special occasion you include as well a boiling chicken , but since so many kitchens are n't equipped with a soup pot large enough to hold a chicken at the same time as all the meat , this may have to be cooked separately . |
| 18 | In the opinion of Books Etc , ‘ this unfair distribution method should now cease , and accordingly , may we please be given the opportunity of subscribing to your complete paperback list and obtain deliveries at the same time as all other bookshops in the UK ? ’ |
| 19 | Catherine and Donald Carswell were a husband and wife literary team who flourished at the same time as another pair , Willa and Edwin Muir . |
| 20 | The speed of élite competition means that your countering punch either arrives at the same time as any deflection you make , or very soon after it . |
| 21 | However , even at the same time as this controversy continues the discipline has not only come to recognize the influence of the self , but has urged that we use it as a scientific construction ( Okely 1975a ) . |
| 22 | ’ At the same time as this Conrad work was in his head , Eliot received anthropological proof that ‘ Life is very long ’ for ‘ civilized ’ people and for ‘ savages ’ alike in an age of degeneration , and that if the savage revealed a level of horror hidden in city life , then similarly civilized man might corrupt the savage . |
| 23 | The later instruments will fit with wiring modifications but need the later type alternator fitted at the same time as this provides the signal to drive the rev counter . |
| 24 | Begin with the most common offenders : milk , milk products and chocolate , cutting out beef at the same time as this can sometimes cross-react with milk . |
| 25 | At the same time as this was happening , that is to say between the late to midseventies , the Government announced its ‘ fight against inflation ’ with all its consequences for local government spending . |
| 26 | At the same time as this service was held similar services were held in Holy Trinity Church , Leeds , and St Ann 's RC Church , Bradford . |
| 27 | At the same time as this was happening teachers demanded to be treated ‘ as professionals ’ , scornfully ignoring the view , repeatedly expressed , that the disruption of children 's education for so long a period was hardly the behaviour that one might expect from members of a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 28 | At the same time as this appearance of detailed control was being given , there was little opportunity for councillors to exercise a co-ordinated leadership for strategic policy-making . |
| 29 | At the same time as this threat Henry found himself faced with a revolt of a section of the Breton nobility , alarmed by his high-handed treatment of their duchy , and there were already hints of trouble elsewhere in his dominions . |
| 30 | Do not try to listen to the radio at the same time as this can cause " feedback " down the phone . |