Example sentences of "[subord] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 2 | A widespread factor is found where real or suggested expertise is involved in a transaction and where at the same time it may be assumed that the customer is ignorant about what it is he is paying for . |
| 3 | Computers , especially microcomputers and terminals with monitors , have been claimed to be harmful to the health of the operator because of radioactive emissions although at the present time there does not appear to be any conclusive proof that a real danger to health exists . |
| 4 | In relation to Europe and 1992 , it is expected that there will be substantial growth in many markets ( particularly Spain ) , although at the present time EC rules and regulations on pensions are still being liberalised . |
| 5 | ‘ The role is very powerful , although at the same time Lola is very sensitive . |
| 6 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 7 | Something might be true although at the same time harmful and dangerous in the highest degree ; indeed it could pertain to the fundamental nature of existence that a complete knowledge of it might destroy one — so that the strength of a spirit could be measured by how much ‘ truth ’ it could take , more clearly , to what degree it needed it attenuated , veiled , sweetened , blunted and falsified . |
| 8 | Servants too ought to be diligent and refrain from gaming and other dissolute pursuits , although at the same time they were fully entitled to ‘ competent wages and clothing with trew payments of the same ’ . |
| 9 | This argument , which Foucault derives from Deleuze , although at the same time he tellingly invokes Sartre 's theoretical formulation designed to solve exactly the same problem , provides a way of avoiding the incommensurability of the relation of the event to the concept by allowing ‘ the disjunctive affirmation of both ’ — thus solving the problem that the concept , as a part of the language of generality , will inevitably travesty the event 's singularity : |
| 10 | He encouraged Hoare to give a strong lead at Geneva ( although at the same time telling hint : ‘ keep us out of war ; we are not ready for it ’ ) , and ruminating , again at Aix , moved increasingly towards an autumn election . |
| 11 | This authorization made provision for the removal of one large , identifiable group of surrendered personnel from 5 Corps responsibility , although at the same time Robertson instructed that " steps should be taken to ensure that Allied PW held in Russian area are transferred to us in exchange " . |
| 12 | In a rare survey of local residents ' attitudes , the Kariels ( 1982 ) have found that in spite of the many negative aspects often ascribed to tourism , the overall evaluation of local inhabitants was strongly positive , although at the same time they wanted the landscape to retain its traditional character and felt that family life had been weakened by tourism . |
| 13 | Rosalind Krauss has observed that this principle of textual reproducibility was prevalent , although at the same time given ideological denial , in modernism , itself . |
| 14 | It also recommends that excavations be coordinated at a national level , albeit at the same time as more powers are devolved to the regions , this decentralisation freeing the CSRS of its administrative and financial role and giving it the freedom to concentrate on scholarly matters , with — and this is a novelty — systematic recourse to the advice of outside experts . |
| 15 | Throughout the last 120 years , the demands on the experience and accumulated information of the Geological Survey in Scotland have never been greater than at the present time . |
| 16 | Firstly , when we were first discussing the sale , the market was somewhat more buoyant than at the present time . |
| 17 | Judge power The authorised number of Lords Justices was at present 26 , one less than at the same time last year . |
| 18 | It is already apparent that players are much fitter than at the same time last season . |
| 19 | The amount of money donated to the Village Association through the envelopes is less than at the same time last year . |
| 20 | The danger of inflation was underlined by figures which showed that there were 15,400 million lei more in circulation on May 21 , 1990 , than at the same time in 1989 . |
| 21 | Oil prices remained 35 per cent higher than at the same time the previous year , the prospect of increased trade with Saudi Arabia and Iran opened up and major development projects , such as the expansion of the Das Island gas liquefaction plant and Dubai 's dhow wharfage scheme , recommenced . |
| 22 | The total number killed was 16 fewer than at the same time last year . |
| 23 | ‘ I can tell you he 's running quicker than at the same time last year , ’ said the Welshman , confident that Christie is capable of matching Canadian Bruny Surin 's 1993 world best of 6.45 . |
| 24 | He 's more forward than at the same time last season . ’ |
| 25 | Hahnemann and his followers left us a legacy of many hundreds of remedies and the number has continued to grow until at the present time there are between two and three thousand remedies in the homoeopathic materia medica , each with its remedy picture , some of which have been more extensively worked out than others . |
| 26 | Knowing an author 's homosexuality makes that decoding far easier ( if at the same time rather less triumphant there 's an undeniable pleasure in finding out that a favourite writer , actor or director you have admired for years turns out to be gay , as you always privately hoped and ‘ knew ’ ) but it returns us once again to the problem of biography , the danger of regressing to a simplistic reading of texts which simply locates their meanings in the author 's life story . |
| 27 | But , if at the same time as the warrant is issued the issuer undertakes to redeem it , the agreement to redeem the warrant should be considered together with that for the issue of the warrant itself . |
| 28 | If at the same time the adult says , ‘ Look ’ or , ‘ What 's this ? ’ it seems plausible that the words will be interpreted by the child in terms of the communicative acts they accompany — that is , as ‘ attention-getters ’ and devices for locating conversational topics . |
| 29 | In sport , for example , the professional player is often held to be socially inferior , if at the same time technically superior , to the amateur . |
| 30 | It has also stood Marx on his head , by transforming itself from a classless society into a caste society ( if at the same time gratifying Lenin 's hope that the intermediate stage of class society might be bypassed ) . |