Example sentences of "and at the [adj] time a " in BNC.

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1 However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it !
2 A rift has opened between realism and something beyond , and at the same time a link has been forged between Dostoevsky 's favourite phrase , the deeper realism , and my own apocalyptic naturalism .
3 And at the same time a paltry £5 million a year is available for all archaeological survey , conservation and management .
4 She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease .
5 This object , discourse , is at once an empirical phenomenon recognizable without a particular theory , and at the same time a theoretical object that is amenable to analysis .
6 The pangolin is a forest animal and at the same time a taxonomic enigma : it cuts across several distinct categories in Lele zoology just as it does in ours .
7 They hatch very quickly and at the same time a new generation of workers and soldiers emerge from the stored pupae .
8 It is perhaps because they are both unique and at the same time a faithful continuation of ancestral traditions that oriental rugs are objects of allure and fascination for the West .
9 It has n't escaped anyone 's notice that a former senior official of the Great Criminal goes on the run , and at the same time a series of murders begins of the children of other former officials of the Great Criminal .
10 Whereas the earlier , Shklovskian view had been that form itself was a defamiliarizing agent , this subtler later development introduces a more dynamic and at the same time a more coherent notion of the literary work .
11 It offers an impressive teaching faculty , and at the same time a small college atmosphere .
12 Has begun , I should say , to feel a little proprietorial about Serafin , in the way we do about our masters , and at the same time a little protective .
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