Example sentences of "at the same time [subord] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 . ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 ? ’
7 Catherine and Donald Carswell were a husband and wife literary team who flourished at the same time as another pair , Willa and Edwin Muir .
8 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 .
9 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 ) .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 ’ .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 Do not try to listen to the radio at the same time as this can cause " feedback " down the phone .
19 HarperCollins is giving him a big push , and is reissuing Climbers and The Ice Monkey at the same time as this haunting tale .
20 At the same time as this another organisation was being formed , The Peoples Education Movement , ( P.E.M. ) the aims of which , although suitably vague , were to provide a non-partisan platform from which Dr.Williams could continue his lectures and build up his support .
21 Bit of a coincidence there , it went off at the same time as this ha as the tape stopped
22 At the same time as these theories were being explored in the world of school — theories designed to make the pupil the equal of the teacher — the concept of equality was beginning to have a powerful effect on education in a more overtly political sense .
23 It was precisely at the same time as these processes , policies and institutions were being consolidated that the embryonic imperial regime found territorial expression for its increasing power in the colonial administration and economic exploitation of Siberia .
24 At the same time as these developments were being implemented , the new town corporations were being disbanded and a massive privatisation programme was well underway as industrial and domestic property in the new towns was sold .
25 At the same time as these directors were making their classy films , there were many other directors churning out the cinema of workmanlike entertaining pictures .
26 JAPAN produced conflicting economic signals yesterday , announcing a record current account trade surplus at the same time as more companies imposed reductions in bonuses because of falling profits .
27 The number of eighteen-year-olds seeking further and higher education is currently on the decline , at the same time as more of the graduates emerging from university are non-cognate ; thus a balance is being held but at the expense of ‘ RICS students ' .
28 It also recommends that excavations be coordinated at a national level , albeit at the same time as more powers are devolved to the regions , this decentralisation freeing the CSRS of its administrative and financial role and giving it the freedom to concentrate on scholarly matters , with — and this is a novelty — systematic recourse to the advice of outside experts .
29 Developments within the social services often mean that more training is needed at the same time as more staff and it is difficult to decide on priorities .
30 It is that the view of Anglo-American finance as a casino full of rapacious capitalists has become popular at the same time as those countries ' companies were being taken over by the people themselves .
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