Example sentences of "but at the same time [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was hopelessly confused , not wanting to lose Georg , but at the same time obsessed with the pull of Gesner . |
| 2 | A business must be kept profitable into the long-term future , but at the same time short-term profitability must be maintained to avoid the danger that the long term will never be reached , and the business liquidated or taken over . |
| 3 | Thus in the period 1950–70 new businesses provided 70 000 new jobs but at the same time other factory closures caused 50 000 people to lose their jobs . |
| 4 | Crouching below the plain embattled tower these ancient cottages , built with traditional rubble walling stone and roofing tiles , gave the old grey town a natural but at the same time haphazard unit . |
| 5 | Their insistence on selling only complete packages made the cost of buying the guides too expensive , but at the same time individual purchasing libraries have often gone on to modify the guides for local use ; and this is the greatest block to co-ordinated and centralized production — librarians prefer to prepare their own guides , tailor-made for their particular local needs . |
| 6 | It must be tight-fitting but at the same time easy to remove , for as the caterpillars grow they will consume enormous amounts of nettles . |
| 7 | Development there has been described by Lehmann as ‘ modernisation with fitful growth ’ , because the expansion of the state apparatus has meant modernisation in terms of growing bureaucracy and an increase in formal , at the expense of clientelist and personal , relationships at work but at the same time agricultural productivity has been erratic ( Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 8 | In Middle-earth he wanted a similar ultimate courage undiluted by confidence — but at the same time untainted by rage and despair . |
| 9 | In the course of my own childhood and adolescence my immediate family went through several changes , mostly involving separation and loss , but at the same time certain factors remained constant . |
| 10 | The language of the novel makes use of this cliché to demonstrate first that there is a profound ambiguity in the social construction of femininity according to which women are passive but at the same time subversive of the binary distinction which so construes them , and second that all people , male and female , are condemned to being at least partially the product of the language of others . |
| 11 | One of the best known and most popular members of the Apistogramma genus is A.agassizii , a fish which is interesting enough to attract the cichlid enthusiast , but at the same time amenable to community care by the relative beginner . |
| 12 | ‘ It is devastatingly funny , but at the same time poignant ’ Evening News |
| 13 | He was curiously moved , but at the same time suspicious of his own reactions . |
| 14 | For example , if retail prices should rise by 10 per cent in a single year , but at the same time after-tax incomes should also rise by 10 per cent as a result of cuts in direct taxation , then the Tax and Price Index method would record a zero rate of inflation . |
| 15 | Fairly typical was the assessment of both works as ‘ picturesque , but at the same time restless , and verging occasionally on the sentimental ’ . |
| 16 | But you 're always smart , you 're always intellectual , and you 're always a woman who 's in control but at the same time sexy and … fun . ’ |
| 17 | Some foreign ministry officials ( like Briand 20 years before ) saw European unity as the only solution : France and Germany could join in European institutions as equals , with no need for special controls on Germany ; but at the same time German economic independence would be restricted and German resources would be used for the good of a greater whole . |
| 18 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 19 | These problems demand intensive treatment — moisturising and nourishing but at the same time non-oily . |
| 20 | Floors , for instance , require finishes that are hard , water resistant , but at the same time flexible , so that the surface is not brittle and will not crack when objects are moved across the surface . |