Example sentences of "but at the same time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps , but at the same time the means to cope with market movements have developed enormously , bettering the lot of corporate treasurers all around the world . |
| 2 | Of these the most honourable , but at the same time the most burdensome , was tenure by knight service , which involved many irksome ‘ incidents ’ ( see Chapter 2 , note 2 ) . |
| 3 | But at the same time the vast majority of the people find themselves to be a single nation and are conscious of resembling one another more than they resemble foreigners . |
| 4 | ‘ I was so depressed , but at the same time the world was my oyster . |
| 5 | IN SEPTEMBER 1940 , the Battle of Britain was being fought over south east England by the pilots of Fighter Command , but at the same time the crews of Coastal and Bomber Commands were making heroic , but less well-known , attacks on the invasion barges and German naval forces assembled in the ports and harbours across the Channel . |
| 6 | But at the same time the number of available children with whom they might reside is much reduced by comparison , say , with the mid-nineteenth century , because of the reduction in the birth rate . |
| 7 | Here again it was the nobility and gentry who got the most attention , but at the same time the inferior ranks of society were defined with some rigour . |
| 8 | As yet , industry hereabouts may not fully have ‘ taken off ’ , but at the same time the many £2 assessments downgraded for tax purposes in the Vale region indicate a degree of recession , the state of some towns hinting at an uneasy period of relocation . |
| 9 | By the early 1970s not only had the general inflationary climate changed for the worse , but at the same time the Bretton Woods arrangements were breaking down . |
| 10 | In this period not only did the nature of the trade-offs change but at the same time the policy-makers came to attach more or less importance to particular objectives . |
| 11 | From 1945 until the 1960s the replacement of the electorate strengthened the ‘ working class ’ support for the Labour Party , but at the same time the current basis for such an alignment was weakening : |
| 12 | But at the same time the party received the votes of a smaller proportion of working class electors than ever before since the war . |
| 13 | But at the same time the leadership of the organised working class has had neither the imagination nor the capacity to attempt to force a radical restructuring of the national economy on working class terms . |
| 14 | He argues that over the last century or so the number of white-collar jobs has increased rapidly , but at the same time the skill required to do the jobs has been reduced . |
| 15 | The opportunities for domestic conflict are obvious , but at the same time the older generation of farm workers are made more aware of the opportunities that they themselves missed and of their lowly economic position compared with workers in other industries . |
| 16 | Obviously the ring had to be designed so that it was not uncomfortable to wear , but at the same time the key part needed to be intricate enough to serve a lock . |
| 17 | It was his last publication , but at the same time the first in which he printed secular music in part-books with full text to each separate part , in place of the choirbook lay-out . |
| 18 | But at the same time the painter now felt compelled to give in every painting a multiplicity of information about the formal properties of his subject , and this in turn rendered his task in some ways more complex than it had been hitherto . |
| 19 | It would obviously be dangerous to deduce too much from this , but at the same time the painters ' attitude towards their work unconsciously mirrored a whole new concept of painting . |
| 20 | It was true , she did n't want to look like a timid imitation of Faye , but at the same time the possibility of learning more about style was an attractive one . |
| 21 | Farming communities , such as are found in Central Wales , benefitted a great deal from the advent of the railway : it meant cheaper raw materials , but at the same time the value of farm produce increased due to the railways ' ease of access to the more affluent urban markets . |
| 22 | It is this balance of power with governors which perhaps most intensely tests the management capacity of a head in relation to other teachers , but at the same time the power of teachers themselves to convert policies which are handed down from above into classroom practice by means of adaptation , domestication or subversion should not be overlooked ( Shipman 1990:156 — 7 ) . |
| 23 | But at the same time the British greatly annoyed Washington by their abortive effort to draw Jordan into the Baghdad Pact in the winter of 1955 – 56 — an inept political move . |
| 24 | But at the same time the president refused to listen to the more ambitious suggestions emanating from London . |
| 25 | But at the same time the north-west saw the largest population slump with more than 80,000 fewer people living there in 1991 than a decade earlier . |
| 26 | This is a purely simplifying assumption : it enables us to see the role played by taxes in the model , but at the same time the analysis is kept simple . |
| 27 | But at the same time the Party could argue that it was attempting to equalize things or at least limit inequalities in the sense that , that , that the tax rates were . |