Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [conj] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And indeed for the first few weeks there is a manic response of getting up at the usual time and finding things to do , but which gradually subsides into grief and depression . |
| 2 | They bubbled with enthusiasm , all talking at the same time while raving on about the beauty of the bush walk . |
| 3 | When the assistant is serving you , he may also be serving two or three other people at the same time and holding a conversation with yet another . |
| 4 | He was still by the bomb , whacking the sand with his plank , using both hands to hold it and bringing it down with all his strength , jumping up in the air at the same time and yelling . |
| 5 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |
| 6 | At the same time as building up the 15 per cent stake , GM would make a big cash injection into Jaguar — perhaps as much as £200m — to help the Coventry-based firm to fend off Ford , which has already announced it plans to take a 15 per cent holding as a prelude to a full takeover bid . |
| 7 | Colourist Chris Walton used Medium Blonde and Terra Rosa from Wella 's Colour Touch range to change the tone and deepen the overall colour of Sally 's hair at the same time as encouraging its shine and improving the general condition . |
| 8 | Icons are duplicated by holding the CTRL key at the same time as dragging the icon to its new location . |
| 9 | At the same time as writing down the reasons , other things came to mind which could illustrate and support those reasons , so they are jotted down too . |
| 10 | Rather it is that Labour needs to defend — and , on these figures , regain — its traditional class base at the same time as completing the process of modernisation and colonising the new political territory of the 1990s . |
| 11 | At the same time as trying to knot the heavyish material he peered down at his stomach . |
| 12 | The problem is one of the continuing dominance of traditional models of assessment at the same time as trying to introduce other models based on quite different educational premises . |
| 13 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 14 | Such events would be likely to result in long-term adversity-unemployment and financial hardship for the first person , loss of family support at the same time as facing the prospects of single parenthood or marrying an unsuitable man ‘ for the sake of the baby ’ for the second . |
| 15 | Dealers were expected to get these cards filled in at the same time as fulfilling their quotas of business , but nobody had time . |
| 16 | At the same time as setting up and equipping new residential projects , the CMHTs also played a major role in preparing and supporting residents through , for example : assessing and training individuals with a mental handicap ; enabling parents ‘ to let go ’ ; and either directly providing or facilitating continuing support for residents . |
| 17 | It set the tone of the renewed debate which in the coming decade was to divide Western Europe even further , at the same time as setting in motion a groundswell that eventually produced the European Community . |
| 18 | Some trainers offer residential courses , however , where you can enjoy a holiday at the same time as training your dog under expert guidance . |
| 19 | In 1981 the executive committee directed that the BDN , which had hitherto performed the dual role of addressing the hearing public on behalf of deaf people at the same time as serving deaf readers , should in future primarily be a paper for BDA members and the deaf community as a whole . |
| 20 | The USA did so on April 7 at the same time as recognizing Bosnia-Hercegovina [ see above ] . |
| 21 | This is an opportunity to be built on when it occurs as the insurer 's preference for its own panel members is bound to be an initial issue ; at the same time as asserting the client 's right to choose , panel membership can be discussed . |
| 22 | Be careful that you do not continue to reject fields at the same time as getting lower and lower until it is too late either to have any selection or to achieve a good approach . |
| 23 | Now at the same time as ordering the bricks I 'm taking on myself to order the tiles for the roof at the same time . |
| 24 | At the same time as shipping packs of frozen fatty beef carcases to West Africa , it spends aid money on improving cattle breeds in Mali and Senegal , on refrigerating abattoirs in Burkina Faso and on fattening cattle in Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 25 | The aim of the revised features is to up-date the scheme at the same time as maintaining a good balance between technical skills and design with the retention of a grading system . |
| 26 | The context of speech-making and the techniques and conventions that have been developed ensure that many sides of a case are put at the same time as maintaining the proprieties due to different statuses . |
| 27 | At the same time as maintaining high academic standards , the College firmly grounds its courses in practical applications . |
| 28 | Therapy was aimed at helping the parents establish a more balanced and satisfactory relationship , learning to negotiate rather than lapse into their habitual pattern of attack and withdraw at the same time as providing a reward programme for Luke just to sit on the lavatory . |
| 29 | This is a felicitous choice , since it serves the dual purpose of examining design at the same time as providing a basis for a definition of art , from which it is distinguished . |
| 30 | Slavery and white racism , Cutler argues , guaranteed the survival of a folk mode in the midst of capitalist society — at the same time as subjecting black people , as victims of this society , to an experience enabling them to represent a more general alienation characteristic of life under industrial capitalism . |