Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [conj] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid .
2 Many are offered in garden centres and shops , loose or prepacked , from February onwards , but care must be taken to plant them at the right time or thy may fail .
3 According to Safa , ‘ the ideology that equates female confinement within the home to higher class status has begun to influence working-class women at the same time that its influence has begun to wane among women of the elite ’ .
4 The third group comprised the Party activists and functionaries themselves , who were finding it increasingly difficult to recruit new willing Party workers at the same time that their own work-load was being considerably enlarged .
5 And I was fortunate that my scientific reputation increased at the same time that my disability got worse .
6 But when I substituted ‘ anorexia nervosa ’ for ‘ mental illness ’ I could see the truth in what Szasz was saying , and realise at the same time that his judgement was not so harsh .
7 The aim is to acknowledge the guilty nature of the hero according to one set of criteria , those of ordinary morality , but to stress at the same time that his guilty act is a source of pride and value of an altogether different , non-moral , antinomian kind .
8 A prodigious runner , Mehew 's pace and fitness give Rovers the appearance of playing 4-4-2 and 4-3-3 at the same time and his willingness to get into the penalty area has brought him four goals already this season .
9 Even though we were always moving around , we 'd always be on the same tip ; we 'd go to bed at the same time and my mom would carry cooking pots into hotels and cook — stink out the whole place with curry .
10 Syl and Robert arrived at the same time and my mother poured them drinks .
11 The number of hotel-based leisure complexes that do not take into consideration the operation of a facility at the same time as its aesthetics are plain for all to see .
12 Last week , at the same time as its announcement of early shipments of the OSF-derived DCE/SVR4 , see above , it finally went public .
13 The Norman exchequer ( probably instituted in the early years of the century , at the same time as its English counterpart ) used the tally , the chequered cloth , and the abacus to provide records for the illiterate and to overcome the considerable problems posed by the use of Roman numerals in addition and subtraction .
14 Elaine a retired civil servant who had worked all her life , felt she made a mistake in retiring at the same time as her friend Louise who had always opted out of the cooking and cleaning in favour of gardening and doing the decorating .
15 At the same time as her nose wrinkled , the corners of her mouth turned down and her eyelids drooped .
16 Fiona , whose businessman husband Rod Potts lives in Cumbria , plans to turn in at the same time as her baby daughter Natasha .
17 She hadgone to Banbury social services for help at the same time as her cousin Ian Barnes .
18 In particular , the Magyar gentry saw themselves placed at a disadvantage compared with German-speakers at the same time as their historic liberties were threatened .
19 The famous Tiller discretion was instilled into them at the same time as their routines and with equal thoroughness .
20 Some of these children show an interesting reaction when the allergenic foods are removed from the diet and other allergens avoided : their mental and behavioural symptoms clear up at the same time as their physical ones .
21 Just over half of those who retired prematurely did so at the same time as their redundancy .
22 If voices were to end at the same time as their canonic function ended they would fall out one by one , as in a round .
23 Ironically , the linguistic difference ( in markedness ) between the terms is emphasized at the same time as their functional equivalence — with the milder signifying the stronger — is blatantly evident .
24 The 16-year-olds could play for the juniors at the same time as their fathers turn out for the club 's over-35s team in a national competition .
25 At the same time as our mystics were writing in England , this principle became definitive in the Greek Christian empire of Byzantium .
26 At the same time as our launching of Youth Leagues , we identified volleyball as a growth sport which was not only visually exciting but also had a good , clean image .
27 The detail of the proposals on contributions was , of course , fully set out in the very full statement that I made to the House by way of a written answer at the same time as my right hon. Friend the Chancellor 's autumn statement on 6 November .
28 But at the same time as my accusation was being assessed by a prestigious board of Edinburgh academics , just a departmental door away a female student and her male lecturer were engaging in clandestine consensual sex .
29 Time the action so that your withdrawal is completed at the same time as your advancing foot is taking up its new position .
30 This action can be taken at the same time as your writ is issued and prior to judgement being given .
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