Example sentences of "at [art] [adj] time he be " in BNC.

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1 ( 4 ) The limiting words ‘ in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown ’ leave the court free to order a witness to give evidence notwithstanding that at the relevant time he was an officer or servant of the Crown , if the matters in respect of which he is to give evidence did not come to his notice in that capacity , for example , the civil servant who , when on holiday or at home , happens to witness a road traffic accident .
2 Myers may be mining his adolescence for material , but at the same time he 's giving a continent 's youth big-screen justification for its own sedentary existence .
3 Off the field he is mild-mannered and dismissive of his achievements — though his verbal attack on an English journalist at the end of the 1989–90 tour was fulminating stuff — while at the same time he is intensely proud of his humble background , is very much a man of his people .
4 At the same time he is blamed for allowing the incident to arise when it is usually inconceivable that he could have prevented it .
5 At the same time he is depicted as a saint by the bishop of Tours , who may well have thought of him as a fellow victim of Merovingian politics .
6 However , if the broker fills an order left with him by his client or deals on a discretionary basis , he is as a matter of law dealing on both sides of the " client " contract ; he is agent for the client , in that he binds the client to the contract , and at the same time he is technically the client 's counterparty .
7 But at the same time he was both transmitter and receiver , so to speak .
8 He was quite at home talking about Eisenstein or Brecht , Shakespeare or Godard , but at the same time he was completely rooted in the specificity of Bengal , its history , its literature and its culture .
9 They 'd told her , on no account was he to be allowed to cry for a feed , but that at the same time he was n't to be put to the breast unless he really wanted to .
10 At the same time he was equally concerned that the dancing itself should be interesting .
11 As a young man , Sewell appeared to some observers to be eccentric and reserved , but at the same time he was looked upon as a steady , attentive and exemplary apprentice .
12 At the same time he was given a course of anti-fungal drugs .
13 ‘ Not only was he doing all that , but at the same time he was taking his firm into the merger with Peats .
14 He was pretending that the errand was a nuisance , though at the same time he was grinning with pleasure at the thought of taking McIllvanney 's brand new sportsboat to sea .
15 The incongruity was that at the same time he was convinced of retribution in this world .
16 Yet at the same time he was edging back from his long concern with heroic valour , or hobbitic moral courage .
17 At the same time he was pursuing his preference for bilateral meetings : these culminated during the first two months of 1961 with his meeting first with the British premier , Harold Macmillan , and then with Konrad Adenauer .
18 He examined her carapace , her tough coiled-spring legs ; and knew that he was examining Meh'Lindi intimately , yet at the same time he was n't .
19 At the same time he was turned down by both the Civil Service and the Foreign Office .
20 At the same time he was prone to a feeling of guilt that his art was not what it ought to be .
21 At the same time he was anxious to see his first raven , for he remembered Woil saying that the ravens started ‘ where the mountains start , and their range spreads ever northwards to the very heart of eagle and buzzard country ’ .
22 At the same time he was aware that he was growing hard to understand and that he must have fallen into spitting , because the corset buyer opposite was glaring at him and wiping her face with a lace handkerchief .
23 At the same time he was responsible for many improvements , taking out seven patents up to 1851 for cotton spinning and several thereafter for power-loom weaving .
24 At the same time he was engaged with his brother Ralph in soap-boiling in London , and dealt in tallow , potash , soap-ash , and oil .
25 At the same time he was a great lord .
26 Her remarks confused Lucien , but at the same time he was very interested in what she had to say .
27 At the same time he was puzzled by her silence , after such friendliness .
28 At the same time he was conscious of a deep and mysterious horror deep inside him .
29 At the same time he was rightly sceptical of the readiness of the American taxpayer to foot the bill once the war was over .
30 At the same time he was urging the Americans to negotiate .
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