Example sentences of "[vb -s] at [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | However , the demand for the relevant , the practical , and the vocational that was part of the raison d'être of the GCSE has at the same time been answered in a different way , which may in the end prove embarrassing to the DES and the SEC , and may seem to promise yet another shift of power . |
2 | While attempting to give financial autonomy to schools the government has at the same time failed to help the market — that is , parents and pupils — to decide what subjects should be studied . |
3 | But — with exceptions of course — it has at the same time been unable or unwilling to devote enough time and effort to understanding and pursing financial and accounting matters , perhaps because these often lack the immediate and general glamour of other aspects of policies . |
4 | It displays the extraordinary virtuosity which this scheme encourages , but has at the same time great sculptural power . |
5 | Being a costly enterprise and having many uses to the modern state , research has at the same time come under increased scrutiny from the paymaster . |
6 | It has in the past happened that a client has been advised by the agent to amend an order , has entirely agreed with that advice , but has at the same time pointed out that his authority does not extend to giving a final decision , and this can be awkward . |
7 | The novelty was in the clean and smiling way he said them , blowing out gray smoke rings at the same time . |
8 | This is achieved by adjusting the spacing between the words and characters as necessary so that each line of text finishes at the same point . |
9 | This section looks at the many different forms of retailing , and how different sorts of shops and stores operate . |
10 | Maurice Cottrell , who lives at the same nursing home as Les , was lucky enough to have his name picked out of the hat . |
11 | At this price it has come under increasing pressure from the Commodore Amiga , which starts at the same price and attracts similar discounts . |
12 | The clock to record response time starts at the same time that the probe digit is shown on the screen . |
13 | If this happens at the same time as the inevitable swing into wind , it can result in a very rapid rolling over on to the into-wind wing-tip . |
14 | It seems , then , that not only may an entrepreneur-producer be a monopolist because he happens at the same time to be a monopolist resource owner , he may be a monopolist because he has made himself a monopolist resource owner in the course of his entrepreneurial activities . |
15 | For example , although a curie of any radioactive element disintegrates at the same rate as I gram of natural radium ( as found in sea-water ) there is no connection between this and the relative toxicity of the element as compared to radium . |
16 | In this way , the polyps synchronise the release of their sexual cells so precisely that the event occurs at the same hour on a particular night each year , turning the sea into a multi-coloured reproductive soup . |
17 | Erm there 's a sense in which y'know kind of when I go to concerts erm there 's y'know kind of there 's loads of blokes who take their shirts off and er wrestle around together and build human pyramids and do all that kind of , lots of body contact , lots of grasping one-another and all that kind of thing and yet erm y'know presumably to them , on the assumption that they 're heterosexual , as I assume probably they are , it 's it 's one of these things that erm y'know is kind of again maybe it even occurs at the same time as they 're quite homophobic in some cases . |
18 | The speed of élite competition means that your countering punch either arrives at the same time as any deflection you make , or very soon after it . |
19 | Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill , a young , fast-track movie executive whose career comes under threat when another young Turk arrives at the same studio . |
20 | Finally , Lindsey and other tax experts have consistently argued that as tax rates are cut , economic efficiency is raised by reducing tax breaks and shelters at the same time . |
21 | His argument is that the density wave is of a different kind , the so called long wave mode , which propagates from the centre of the Galaxy outward , such a wave pattern rotates much more rapidly than the short wave mode and it just happens that , if this picture is correct , our Solar System is almost exactly at the place in our Galaxy where it orbits at the same speed as the wave ( Astrophysics and Space Science , vol 89 , p 61 ) . |
22 | The impact of the recession in Britain has compelled employers drastically to reduce labour costs at the same time as it has effectively shifted the balance of market strength in their favour . |
23 | Moral density can not grow unless material density grows at the same time , and the latter can be used to measure the former . ’ |
24 | It certainly has a bearing , er it , it has a bearing in two directions , it causes price increases and cost increases at the same time for the producers , so that at the same time as there are price increases , increasing inflation , there is a reduction in production . |
25 | And the bill he , that he gets at the same as the time as the delivery , and what 's normal credit conditions ? |
26 | On a beat , that is with the sheet pulled in tightly but as we turn on to a ridge you 'll see that we have to ease the sheet out so that the sail stays at the same angle for the wind . |
27 | According to an experiment carried out in 1897 , light always travels at the same constant velocity . |
28 | In the case of a group booking , or a rapid succession of arrivals many guests can be completing their registration forms at the same time . |
29 | They both saw Garty Jenks at the same time . |
30 | The architecture is that of a thousand prep-schools ; just as at a boarding school , authority seems at the same time ludicrous , arbitrary , and deadly serious . |