Example sentences of "[prep] the same time a " in BNC.

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1 About the same time a series of unsolved murders of prostitutes in that city came to an end .
2 At the end of 1777 de Broglie submitted to King Louis XVI an improved version of the proposals he had drafted 12 years before while at about the same time a new figure appeared on the scene , the 39-year-old Edward Dumouriez , an able army officer who had caught the eye of the king and been appointed Commandant of Cherbourg .
3 And about the same time a mystery blaze broke out at Madame Tussaud 's , another of the capitals major tourist attractions .
4 ‘ Round about the same time a Panamanian registered cargo ship by the name of the Ramsland , chartered by the same gang who had organized the Valhalla , put into Boston harbour and was promptly seized by the United States Coast Guard .
5 At about the same time a consortium of West European banks refused to grant Cuba the credits it had requested , apparently as a result of US pressure .
6 About the same time a papal envoy , Egidius , was despatched to gain news , followed by Cardinal Guido of Preneste , the pope 's personal representative .
7 Thus in 1506 the Spanish representative in Venice was succeeded by his son , who presented to the doge on the day after his father 's death credentials prepared in advance ; and when about the same time a French ambassador to Hungary died , his duties immediately passed to his nephew , who completed the work of the embassy .
8 At about the same time an advance party from the RMP detachment of ten volunteer ‘ redcaps ’ leave for a short journey to Thorey Island , where their company has planned a military skills training weekend .
9 This indicates an acceptance of the state structures , or a recognition of a need for the separation of Northern Ireland from the remaining state structure of Ireland , but at the same time a continuing opposition to protestant — loyalist dominance .
10 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 .
11 Davie himself provides the example of a dedicated university teacher , who is at the same time a fine poet , a practitioner of rigorously evaluative criticism , and a judicious reviewer .
12 At the same time a majority of 23 per cent of Labour partisans claimed the BBC was pro-Conservative and anti-Labour .
13 At the same time a large majority of voters thought that the press was biased , and that it was biased towards the Conservatives , against Labour , and against the Alliance .
14 At first this was hard to prove , since local authorities were now given many new relief duties : at the same time a number of extensive taxation rights were transferred away from them to the Centre .
15 At the same time a fleet of lorries equipped with a device called SCRIM ( Sideways Force Coefficient Routine Investigation Machine ) began a three-year programme of monitoring the skidding resistance of Britain 's major roads .
16 At the same time a platoon from A Company were finishing their week attached to the 1st Battalion the Danish Life Regiment , during which time they were thundering over training areas in the Danish Ml 13 Armoured Personnel Carrier .
17 It makes at the same time a characteristic noise that sounds like a burp .
18 But at the same time a claim is being made concerning factual evidence about God 's existence .
19 At the same time a klaxon sounded and Russian sailors cleared the deck .
20 A heavy bank of clouds , very dark and tinged with deep red and purple , was creeping across the sky , while at the same time a lower bank was moving rapidly in the opposite direction .
21 And at the same time a paltry £5 million a year is available for all archaeological survey , conservation and management .
22 Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate .
23 At the same time a taste arose for the refined lifestyle of the cultured Greek .
24 Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing .
25 At the same time a change in the industrial mix had been in progress with traditional energy intensive industries in decline and service-based , high technology industries on the increase .
26 At the same time a case was made to the Boundary Commission to bring the area wholly into New Alresford .
27 It is worth noting too that it can arise in different types of trust , either in a simple trust for restitution , for instance on death ; or in a continuing trust such as the fideicommissa familiae relicta discussed in Chapter IV , in which each successive beneficiary is at the same time a trustee for other family members .
28 Almost at the same time a loud-voiced and unpopular Dominican priest made an outspoken attack against all mathematicians and Galileo supporters .
29 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 .
30 At the same time a Ministry subsidy was introduced on the cost of cartridges used for rabbit and pigeon clearance .
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