Example sentences of "at the [adj] time a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those observations were applicable to the present case : the appellant was at the present time a dangerous young man for whom a determinate sentence was not appropriate . |
| 2 | In Britain , for example , there is at the present time a vigorous controversy about the introduction of proportional representation , stoutly resisted by the two main parties , but supported by a growing part of the population who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the existing system , which produces a gross discrepancy between the votes cast for various parties and their representation in parliament , and results in practice in a form of minority government . |
| 3 | The State Department 's Policy Planning Staff noted on 20 November 1951 : We have , in fact , at the present time a special relationship with the U.K. which involves consultation between us on a wide range of matters of joint concern . |
| 4 | There is at the present time a park and ride facility on the south western side of York er on the er Tadcaster Road and er another one is being proposed on the eastern side at Grimston Bar adjacent to the A sixty f Excuse me , A sixty four trunk road . |
| 5 | However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At the same time a majority of 23 per cent of Labour partisans claimed the BBC was pro-Conservative and anti-Labour . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It makes at the same time a characteristic noise that sounds like a burp . |
| 15 | But at the same time a claim is being made concerning factual evidence about God 's existence . |
| 16 | At the same time a klaxon sounded and Russian sailors cleared the deck . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And at the same time a paltry £5 million a year is available for all archaeological survey , conservation and management . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | At the same time a taste arose for the refined lifestyle of the cultured Greek . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | At the same time a case was made to the Boundary Commission to bring the area wholly into New Alresford . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Almost at the same time a loud-voiced and unpopular Dominican priest made an outspoken attack against all mathematicians and Galileo supporters . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At the same time a Ministry subsidy was introduced on the cost of cartridges used for rabbit and pigeon clearance . |
| 28 | At the same time a third branch ( a ) is allowed to develop but cut back until required . |
| 29 | At the same time a fairly substantial Luftwaffe attack was launched against Malta by the units briefly based in Sicily , and this led to some severe fighting over the island on 6 May . |
| 30 | At the same time a revolution in mental attitudes was taking place : like Wordsworth , Coleridge was disillusioned by Napoleon 's conquests . |