Example sentences of "and at the [adj] time [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since a year last August scientists working on UA1 and UA2 have been putting the finishing touches to their apparatus , and at the same time machine physicists at CERN have been working to get a large enough number of collisions in the SPS . |
| 2 | ‘ So , ’ she murmured , ‘ how can a woman be dead and at the same time walking , waving her hands and talking ? ’ |
| 3 | As the town began to grow and at the same time fragment in strange , squalid and unforeseen ways , the gardens became symbolic in a different fashion . |
| 4 | To inject a little infusion of vinegar , and at the same time stick to the truth , must seem to those who know Jim intimately to be an almost impossible feat . |
| 5 | The direction of the technology is one of control over nature , yield maximisation , and at the same time reliability of quality , control over yields and harvesting dates ; as a whole it responds quickly to the needs of the market . |
| 6 | There was a sense of immaturity in our society , an admiration of the crook , the kind of cock-eyed notion that if someone could get away with it he was a Robin Hood type who could somehow feather his own nest and at the same time feather theirs . |
| 7 | The ideal was both " modern " and at the same time conservative in its outlook . |
| 8 | Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich ( and notoriously thriftless ) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy . |
| 9 | It is a matter of social conscience to go on explaining and proposing , and at the same time help in organising and educating the victims . |
| 10 | These systems when used effectively can bring increased efficiency and at the same time help create a desirable environment for guests . |
| 11 | A number of short-lived clandestine presses were set up within Russia , and at the same time radical publicists took full advantage of periods of lighter censorship . |
| 12 | They are phrases which indicate a topic of interest ( i.e. your focus ) and at the same time point towards a particular kind of discussion ( i.e. your mode of argument ) . |
| 13 | In the early sixteenth century the prices of essential goods rose more sharply than those of inessentials , and at the same time wage differentials increased again , so it is likely that by this date population was rising again , and that as real wages declined a higher proportion of them was being spent on essential goods and less on luxuries . |
| 14 | Sir Francis Walsingham , Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth , though himself a Puritan , was so impressed with Andrewes ' abilities , which he considered would be wasted in a country parish , that he caused him to be appointed Vicar of St Giles-without-Cripplegate in London , and at the same time prebend of St Paul 's Cathedral and chaplain both to the Queen and to the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 15 | So there was a restlessness that could help explain his proneness to melancholia , and at the same time account for the extraordinary enthusiasm with which , in later life , he identified himself with the people of different parts of the Mediterranean coastline in turn : Greeks , Italians , Jews , Arabs . |
| 16 | I tried to show pleasure at their decision and at the same time annoyance that our contract simply would n't permit it . |
| 17 | It is rather difficult to communicate the emotion of gloom and at the same time radiate joy . |
| 18 | Together we will enable your donation to help Scotland 's homeless and poorly housed people and at the same time answer emergency appeals — like the Ethiopian famine — build fresh water wells , and hospitals in developing nations . |
| 19 | How can paintings which are at once great and at the same time repellent earn their creator such a disproportionately large sum of money ? |
| 20 | The Democratic Unionist Party is in the curious position of being dominated by evangelicals and hence being more favourable to temperance and sabbatarianism than the Official Unionists and at the same time being better supported than the Officials by working-class loyalists who are not known for their piety and who are prepared to support acts of criminal violence . |