Example sentences of "but at [art] same time [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse .
2 The granite pillars and gendarmes kept the sun from warming us , but at the same time emphasised the tenuous nature of the couloir .
3 Baldwin shunted him to the editorship of the official British Gazette , ‘ to stop him doing worse things ’ , but at the same time kept control over what was published by the remarkable feat of giving Davidson , a junior minister at the Admiralty , some real power of censorship over what the Chancellor of the Exchequer wrote .
4 Deaf people in some conditions of sign presentation provide evidence of LHA when temporally salient cues are available , but at the same time show the superficially confusing effect of RHA for statically perceived signs .
5 He felt a sense of guilt but at the same time knew he could never have spoken to her anyway .
6 That is , in periods of high unemployment , the government would expand aggregate demand : this would reduce the unemployment but at the same time tend to create inflationary pressure so that eventually the government would have to reduce aggregate demand again .
7 They tell the listener that the speaker wishes to hold on to his conversational turn , but at the same time asks for assistance .
8 A cash underwritten alternative occurs where the bidder offers its own shares to the shareholders of the target but at the same time arranges for its merchant bank to offer to buy from accepting shareholders , who wish to take cash , all or a proportion of those shares immediately .
9 Chapman , he said , had begged him not to let Buchan go , but at the same time made it clear that , because of his previous suspension for alleged financial irregularities at Leeds in 1919 , he preferred not to have anything to do with extra payments .
10 He had in prospect a time of truce , while Janet , an expert manager , in a trouser suit well adapted to the task , gave him very real help with the laying-up , but at the same time made a series of unacceptable comparisons between the caravan and Rochester .
11 His approach to such standards as Miss Otis Regrets , All the things you are and Maria was serious , but at the same time conveyed the feeling of sophistication so essential to this genre .
12 He congratulated them , but at the same time insisted that , for the time being at least , they must move towards some sort of accommodation with the Poles .
13 The Yugo ( nee Zastava ) , built in Yugoslavia , managed to escape the Iron Curtain car jokes but at the same time escaped , completely , the attention of press and public .
14 The 5th generation — Expert Systems — must be seen as being applied to the first four generations of Maintenance but at the same time trying to integrate them as well .
15 It felt it could not oppose the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty brokered by the United States in March 1979 , but at the same time viewed it with ambivalence .
16 Now if you know that somebody is a drug addict and they 've just had an injection you keep away from them , erm if they 're having a bad trip , whatever they call it , because you do n't , they become very violent , they can do a lot of damage , now the only time you will step in and help is when they go unconscious , but at the same time remember protect yourself , we 're talking about needles here and probably shared needles , you must be terribly careful that you do not get pricked by a needle , especially if , they have a habit of sticking needles under lapels , so always be aware of this , if a person is a drug addict , in fact if you can find some easier way of turning them into the recovery position , do so , erm , you can then obviously either call the ambulance .
17 ‘ I wanted to seize you in my arms , but at the same time drive you away into oblivion — pretend I 'd never seen you — that you did n't exist . ’
18 Despite such a use of power , the result was far from extravagant to behold : ‘ It is a structure of considerable dimensions , auguring the residence of nobility , but at the same time laying no claim either to grandeur or antiquity … the park is pleasingly undulated ’ .
19 This account of science is indeed overly optimistic but at the same time limited .
20 We are accordingly cutting back central funding , but at the same time encouraging an increased local spend .
21 In the period from 1963 to the late 1970s , headteachers and other teachers enjoyed the frisson of being first , of lacking confidence but at the same time enjoying the mixture of sharing their nervousness with other people .
22 Her voice sounded strange to her ; weak and croaking , but at the same time filled with a passion she had not known she felt .
23 Sometimes in darkness you can find light and Deran Dwyer prove the point , concentrating densely on moody atmospherics but at the same time bristling with a blazing guitar which illuminates like a firework display .
24 Sometimes in darkness you can find light and Deran Dwyer prove the point , concentrating densely on moody atmospherics but at the same time bristling with a blazing guitar which illuminates like a firework display .
25 " Englishing " involves the attempt to represent in English the content of a source poem , with a possible equivalence of some salient stylisitic features , but at the same time to relocate the work in the environment of English ( or Anglo-American ) culture and poetic tradition , with the intention , perhaps , of creating something at once old and quite new , faithful to the past yet relevant to the present .
26 Feeling somehow challenged , Rory sent him one of her teasing , provocative smiles , but at the same time experienced a strange surge of protectiveness .
27 I think they are allowing competition , which is healthy , but at the same time demanding reciprocity .
28 Macbeth defends but at the same time accuses himself ; ‘ Thou canst not say I did it : never shake/Thy gory locks at me ’ ( 50f . ) .
29 The 1947 Act permitted , not required , air pollution control districts to be set up and it introduced a programme to control pollution but at the same time keep industry in business as usual .
30 But he established another less welcome precedent which became common in headhunting firms in the future : he took a professional , workmanlike and effective attitude towards solving the corporate problems of others , but at the same time failed to keep his own house in order .
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