Example sentences of "[prep] the same time [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dispute in Hungary at about the same time was not resolved so amicably , at least in part because Hungary occupied a far more important strategic position in terms of Soviet security than did Yugoslavia . |
| 2 | Certainly , the idea that when I look at my spectacles and think ‘ So that 's where I put them ’ I am having thousands of other little thoughts at the same time is a silly idea , and some would say that the doctrine of the holism of the mental is just a silly idea . |
| 3 | Not that he was playing any flash lead parts but to keep a strong rhythm part going and sing at the same time is rather like having to twiddle both your thumbs in opposite directions at the same time . |
| 4 | gold is virtually indestructible and at the same time is recognisable to most people ; |
| 5 | ‘ Keeping the bend and making Benji move sideways at the same time is not easy , ’ she said . |
| 6 | The recipes in the Walking Diet are easy to follow and quickly prepared , so that even the busiest people have a chance to cook mouth-watering food that is full of goodness and at the same time is low in fat . |
| 7 | Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me . |
| 8 | He sounds like he 's still going through a learning process , coming to terms with the fear of losing friends , and at the same time is worried that he 's being misunderstood himself . |
| 9 | And , furthermore , in emphasizing literary value , the new English serves " a power that is potentially cohesive in that it binds society into its proper heritage , and at the same time is wholly conservative " . |
| 10 | it is a nothing , a zero , a mere point , which , however , dwells in all apparent existences , and at the same time is the point of origin whence , on the slightest stimulus , a double appearance presents itself , an appearance which only manifests itself to vanish . |
| 11 | The Government adverted to this problem in its White Paper , recognising that ‘ it is not easy to define in a manner which conforms with the normally precise definitions of the criminal law , but which at the same time is sufficiently general to catch the variety of conduct aimed at . |
| 12 | Trying to teach a concept and use it for communication at the same time is an impossible task . |
| 13 | Modelling several series at the same time is more appropriate in certain circumstances . |
| 14 | For example , the purchaser may consider that certain supplier contracts are essential to the business but at the same time is not willing to accept responsibility for the vendor 's debts to the supplier . |
| 15 | Scotland failing to capitalise on pressure and inflicting wounds on themselves at the same time is another common event , though , and a first-half penalty missed by Gary McAllister had a profound effect on Andy Roxburgh 's side . |
| 16 | ‘ What we must have at the same time is a greater level of consistency and the kind of spirit that was evident against Rangers . ’ |
| 17 | Their natural opponents , who had often been lashed for undue subservience to clerical domination , joyfully pointed this out : ‘ It is one of the ironies on English political life ’ declared The Tablet , the leading Roman Catholic weekly , ‘ that people who , when they are thinking of lies , are never tired of denouncing the influence of the clergy in politics , at the same time are quite ready to give up their political consciences to the keeping of their ministers . ’ |
| 18 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 19 | But people who have rigged up a television in their bedroom or kitchen , to watch the much-advertised breakfast TV shows are finding that some programmes that are quietly transmitted on BBC2 every morning at the same time are often far more interesting . |
| 20 | Indeed , much ‘ practical ’ scientific learning in a western education system takes place in a laboratory where students imitate , learn concrete activities and at the same time are assumed to be developing logical and abstracting abilities . |
| 21 | Contrasting the ‘ altruistic solidarity ’ of Asian culture with the Western ‘ middle-class ’ culture of ‘ individualism ’ and ‘ competition ’ , Rex concludes : ‘ Thus , being a good Indian and being a successful middle-class student at the same time are by no means easy goals to attain . |
| 22 | In addition , the lower-income households are far less likely to have a telephone — and at the same time are less likely to have a car . |
| 23 | Buyers of commercial vehicles or heavy trucks , for instance , may prefer to buy products that they know will " feel right " to drivers , and which at the same time are straightforward for their maintenance crews to service . |
| 24 | The Government feels that the disclosure regulations , which came into force in October 1991 , place too onerous a task on auditing firms and clients in monitoring payments to associates which at the same time are unlikely to impair the independence and integrity of the audit . |
| 25 | Industrial developers and housebuilders complain bitterly about the rate at which land is fed into the development pipeline , yet at the same time are dependent on planning to provide a degree of certainty and support for profitable investment . |
| 26 | But I think , are n't they always , their timetables are at the same time are n't they , the topics ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But , even while visualizing entering the cupboard , she had at the same time been fully aware that she was in a non-threatening situation ( lying in her own bed ) and so , once again , the subconscious mind had no need to send out those panic signals . |
| 29 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 30 | 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 . |