Example sentences of "at [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Dr Barnardo 's was another charity she took on at about the same time ; this charity has left its old orphanage image behind , and the Princess feels her connections with it have been fruitful . |
| 32 | At about the same time came the Immorality Act , which made sexual relations between different races a crime against the state . ’ |
| 33 | At about the same time , Nadia Thalmann began work on a new project at the University of Geneva , animating synthetic actors using artificial intelligence and robotics . |
| 34 | At about the same time , the computer graphics lab at the New York Institute of Technology was working on what it ambitiously claimed would ultimately be the first full-length computer-generated feature , The Works . |
| 35 | It was Richard Bulwer who built the present Wood Dalling Hall in 1582 , at about the same time as his neighbour Henry Dynne was building the much larger Heydon Hall . |
| 36 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 37 | They spread there from the area of the Aegean at about the same time as the Israelite tribes themselves moved into the land from the east . |
| 38 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 39 | A constituency operation in south-east London was begun at about the same time . |
| 40 | At about the same time the barons of Bedfordshire paid £200 ‘ for the disafforestment of that part of Bedfordshire which Henry I first afforested ’ — a definition which was to be the subject of future contention . |
| 41 | On 27 June the Attorney-General sent to Buckingham warrants for the sale of Neroche , Selwood and Feckenham Forests , and the disafforestment of Braydon was begun at about the same time . |
| 42 | Chris Patten had recruited them both at about the same time . |
| 43 | At about the same time , the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the City of London decided to hold a Day of Solemn Thanksgiving to God for General Monk 's success , and they requested Richard Baxter to preach in St. Paul 's . |
| 44 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 45 | Near the shore , old raised-beach deposits can be observed throughout the region , representing changes in sea levels at about the same time as the glacial episode . |
| 46 | Interestingly , pine reached Skye at about the same time ( Birks and Williams , 1983 ) . |
| 47 | At about the same time , a number of serious accidents occurred . |
| 48 | At about the same time , the now elevated Lord Marshall , Chairman of the CEGB , was featured in a BBC television documentary about the future of nuclear power . |
| 49 | At about the same time , the alkaloid reserpine , extracted from the Indian plant Rauwolfia serpentina , was attracting interest for the treatment of high blood pressure ( see Chapter 12 ) . |
| 50 | CND and judicial review At about the same time that legislation was introduced to tackle the problems raised by the Malone decision , the Massiter revelations led to a second attempt to challenge the pre-1985 procedures in the domestic courts , this time on different grounds from those which had failed before Sir Robert Megarry . |
| 51 | According to the historians , the Norwegian companies also did experiments at about the same time . |
| 52 | At about the same time we made the acquaintance of a young Nigerian living in the town , and in due course his bride came to stay in our house until her marriage . |
| 53 | At about the same time that I went up into the Boys ' School , my friend Hubert Gould moved away to Bournemouth and my other friend Alf Norris moved from The Friary to Greencroft Street and , as this was only two hundred yards from our house , we saw quite a lot of each other . |
| 54 | A similar poll was carried out among academics in the United States at about the same time . |
| 55 | At about the same time that this happened , Bourn became part of 8 Group , the Pathfinder Group . |
| 56 | Moreover , they must be able to anticipate IBM 's future strategy and be prepared to launch a competitive product at about the same time as IBM . |
| 57 | The first two systems will be tested on the ground in two or three years , while Talon Gold will be tested from the space shuttle at about the same time . |
| 58 | At about the same time the red blotches on her Louisa 's face also disappeared — which the doctor put down to coincidence . |
| 59 | At about the same time the French monk Abbo of Fleury was writing about the death of another English leader who had fallen at the hands of the Danes : Edmund , king of the East Angles , who had been killed in 869 . |
| 60 | The revival of Roman Law in eleventh- and twelfth-century Italy , and of canon law at about the same time , accustomed men to systems of law in which legislation was normal and easy . |