Example sentences of "at the same time [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.

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31 At the same time one may suspect that , despite these occasional ambitions , whether revolutionary or reformist , journalists , novelists and sociologists are typically analysts rather than practitioners .
32 At the same time one must also recognise the importance of recreating other habitats such as wooded areas and ponds .
33 But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta .
34 At the same time one can have sympathy with those who devised the term because it is the tangential force per unit charge integrated over a closed path .
35 It is fair to say , particularly when one is considering overseas relations , that there was some form of national sentiment , but at the same time one should guard against the assumption that this was a dominant force in determining men 's attitudes on all occasions .
36 At the same time one should look for points of light in the darkness .
37 At the same time it would be wise for Geoff Cooke and his team to recognise that the squad should still be supremely fit after the World Cup and ought not to be flogged to death by being put through intensive squad weekends .
38 Trying out new materials depends on what the artist wants to do and how the medium can be used to advantage ; at the same time it would be foolish to try to fit a new tool exactly into your pattern of work and thus limit it .
39 In addressing the problem of how British headhunting firms , in competition with the multinational search companies , were able to create and develop a sustained demand for headhunting services , it would be unnecessarily long-winded and tedious to examine every one in detail , yet at the same time it would be sketchy and uninformative to list them all briefly without analysis , and the basic information is given in the Select Directory .
40 If all the press reports chimed the same note at the same time it would be a brave and stubborn fool who would go against them .
41 At the same time it would be possible to re-locate within the boundaries of the land owned by the Borough Council to improve drainage and avoid the part which would be affected by the proposed cross-town route .
42 Stating that the 11th Mayfest would place greater emphasis on quality than quantity , Robson said the programme would strike a balance between new Scottish work and international attractions , while at the same time it would celebrate the talents of the local community .
43 A widespread factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for .
44 This range expresses the resourcefulness and imagination of user education librarians , but at the same time it may express some uncertainty with orientation techniques and , indeed , library orientation itself .
45 At the same time it may make a sudden , savage bite with its canines .
46 At the same time it may help to support the growing recognition of feminist art practice and criticism as a vital and creative part of women 's knowledge .
47 All we have to do is report to the parents once a year it does n't say that everything has to be on the report sheet at the same time it may well be some information goes at one particular time and some at another .
48 This means , among other things , that the electoral system should be one that does not effectively disenfranchise large sections of the citizenry , while at the same time it must produce a government that will be both effective and accountable .
49 ( At the same time it must be admitted that no Secretary of State has ever said that he accepts one either , though his order to publish a report might be taken as such an admission . )
50 At the same time it must be stressed that the ecclesiastical character of ‘ ultramontanism ’ ( the dominant , Rome-centred , theory and practice of Catholicism in this period ) was not a mere post-Revolution reaction : it was the direct heir of medieval papalist and Counter-Reformation Catholicism .
51 At the same time it must be remembered that the occupations of a quarter of the inhabitants were not stated ; some of them must have been farmers , and it is quite conceivable that many of the omissions were the result of uncertainty as to whether or not to class the persons in question as agricultural or industrial .
52 The dialectic is the law of totalization which creates several collectivities , several societies , and one history — realities , that is , which impose themselves on individuals ; but at the same time it must be woven out of millions of individual actions .
53 At the same time it must be borne in mind that in literature , prominence and deviance frequently take a more extreme form ( for example in the Gormenghast passage on p 29 ) which would show up against practically any norm we should choose ; this more general deviance can be demonstrated by taking one 's relative norms from as broad a range as possible .
54 At the same time it should be pointed out that other initiatives along similar lines have not had the same degree of success , and that the question of initial input must be crucial .
55 At the same time it should be noted that while 14% of authorities fell into this group , 26% of the total sample had establishments of less than 100 , so that not all small libraries found this an insurmountable problem .
56 At the same time it should be borne in mind that much of the recent growth in employment in the service industries h-as been in part-time work .
57 At the same time it should be remembered that over the centuries , exiles and deportees have only accounted for a tiny fraction of the total population of Siberia , the vast majority of which was there as a result of voluntary emigration , fortune seeking or the process of natural procreation .
58 At the same time it should be remembered that in non-sociological cultural studies , as in much general writing , the question of effect is commonly raised but without much or any evidence and often by simple and even casual assertion .
59 At the same time it should make us aware of the enormity of the task that still lies before us in developing an adequate analysis of the art made by artists for whom ‘ being a woman ’ was not a given , but something to be explored through a historically shaped and socially conditioned artistic .
60 At the same time it should be made clear that apart from false assumptions about matriculation , higher education should only have a small contribution to make to the range , standard and appositeness of 16+ and 18+ examination syllabuses and schemes of marking .
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