Example sentences of "[prep] the same time [was/were] " 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 | This courtesy might not be necessary , strictly speaking , but the fact that All the President 's Men were in South Africa as guests of the SARB at the same time was not a help . |
| 3 | Under the Green Bill , the Government was introducing integrated pollution control , which the NRA endorsed , but at the same time was removing the independent monitoring of the system . |
| 4 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |
| 5 | The result of the two intelligence services , army intelligence , the Royal Ulster Constabulary 's Special Branch , and various odd freelancers all having a go at the same time was , not surprisingly , a total disaster . |
| 6 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 7 | Treated as a wayward child who at the same time was exceedingly precocious , he was considerably indulged as long as he continued to sow confusion in Rommel 's back yard . |
| 8 | For example , the index of the information system was computerised in 1986 and at the same time was expanded , and made to encompass extensive cross-referencing ( see Figure 5.3 ) . |
| 9 | This truck stood 9in from the floor , and was constructed to carry two milk churns and , at the same time was narrow enough to pass through the end gangways , so that the churns could be taken from one end of the train to the other . |
| 10 | The water car transferred at the same time was not numbered . |
| 11 | The hunt for other reasons to explain the behaviour of a Ceauşescu misses the point : he was not ‘ really ’ a patriot or ‘ at heart ’ a reformer , though when he proclaimed that he was at any given moment one thing , he was that but at the same time was the opposite . |
| 12 | A counterpart to Campbell in America at the same time was Horace Bushnell ( 1802–81 ) , with his The Vicarious Sacrifice ( 1866 ) and Forgiveness and Law ( 1874 ) , in which some of the same emphases appear . |
| 13 | Another Old Stopfordian in the news at the same time was Admiral Sir George Back : Stockport journalist Mr. J.D. Lovelock had travelled to Canada to visit some of the places associated with that intrepid explorer . |
| 14 | I often missed Constanza , but not being with them both at the same time was easier . |
| 15 | The state of siege imposed at the same time was , however , extended by 30 days by a vote of the legislative assembly on Feb. 8 . |
| 16 | Michael Forsyth was dismissed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sept. 7 as chair of the Scottish Conservative Party and at the same time was promoted from Under-Secretary of State to Minister of State at the Scottish Office . |
| 17 | A further example of national information about which local managers were unable to act came with the expanding of the National Diploma level of BTEC in schools : when it was shown that there did not have to be an exclusive choice of BTEC and A levels and that to offer both at the same time was not only permissible but also helpful , the manager was able to make new local choices . |
| 18 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 19 | It is not yet clear how many of the almost 80 other prisoners freed at the same time were held for political reasons . |
| 20 | At the same time were born new heroes and demigods ; the Hollywood dream factory , which had already indelibly stamped the character of both North America and Great Britain by the 1940s , began to spin its web of enticement over the whole of popular culture . |
| 21 | But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town . |
| 22 | Er but Brothers er took time to get over that and er but at , at the same time were using their sales representatives to go abroad and to gain work you know , for the commercial aspect of the company . |