Example sentences of "[was/were] at the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A staunch Methodist with an evangelical conviction that film exists to serve the Lord , he was at the same time the head of the family flour-milling business and imbued with a Yorkshire respect for ‘ brass ’ and profitability . |
| 32 | In short , the office of collector of supply was at the same time highly desirable and extremely dangerous to political interests . |
| 33 | It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default . |
| 34 | It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall . |
| 35 | There was no longer any understanding that in making available advantages to private individuals the state was at the same time imposing a ‘ trust ’ that the business be conducted for the public good . |
| 36 | There was something about her mouth , calm and amused , that was at the same time enigmatic and debunking ; pretending and admitting the pretence . |
| 37 | ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’ |
| 38 | He was a straightforward patriot , and , most of all , a man of action , who was at the same time a man of natural sensitivity towards suffering . |
| 39 | There was at the same time a dramatic decline in the amount of milk produced by urban cattle-keepers and supplied by road . |
| 40 | First her challenge to the primacy of ‘ meaning ’ and support of ‘ cool ’ rather than ‘ expressive ’ aesthetic assumptions was at the same time an advocacy of the collapse of some sort of deep level of signified into the signifier . |
| 41 | The modernist and Nietzschean devastation of the idea of historical progress was at the same time a devastation of assumptions of order , authority , stability , consonance , and repose . |
| 42 | This ‘ explosion of the instincts ’ was at the same time an explosion of contingency into the world of order . |
| 43 | The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices . |
| 44 | Thrilled to the core by his admission that she disturbed and aroused him , she was at the same time terrified . |
| 45 | From this perspective , electoral politics were only one aspect of the struggle , and the parliamentary leaders were considered subordinate to the leadership of the mass party , which was at the same time the leadership of the class itself Conservative and liberal parties , however much they in fact represented class interests , saw themselves as parties functioning within an established social order and a system of political institutions in which parliament was supreme . |
| 46 | The Prime Minister , Crown Prince Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as-Salim as-Sabah , was at the same time authorized to form a new government [ see pp. 34767-68 ] . |
| 47 | Denis Thatcher , who was knocking golf balls into cups , was at the same time rehearsing his speech , to be delivered at lunch that Thursday to the Hove Rotary Club . |
| 48 | While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK . |
| 49 | Stewart Mason , Chairman of the NCDAD , was at the same time proposing to write to polytechnics and colleges with DipAD courses , in advance of a meeting of the London Colleges Alliance the following month , to raise the possibility of the two bodies ‘ getting closer together ’ , and suggesting that they would ‘ probably amalgamate ’ . |
| 50 | The occupation forces in the territory of defeated enemies might be seen as temporary inconveniences , but there was at the same time a natural tendency to acquire overseas bases from which to extend the reach of America 's armed forces . |
| 51 | Yes , if I can just interject something here which I think is rather striking , when one used to go on holiday on the Continent , going to church was at the same time a bewildering an exciting experience because you could n't understand what was going on . |
| 52 | They put a lot of effort into it , but I tell you what , if I read Access , I would never have believed I was at the same conference . |
| 53 | However , he claims demand for Windows NT is twice what Windows was at the same place in the roll-out schedule . |
| 54 | ‘ He 's a better prospect than Gazza was at the same age , ’ said McDermott after the 19-year-old tormented Cambridge . |
| 55 | Since this internegative was at the same stage as Yuricich 's dupe , two generations of film had been skipped to produce a higher quality shot in which the join is much harder to detect . |