Example sentences of "at the [adj] time an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |
| 2 | Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work . |
| 3 | There seems to be a common thread here — a desire to rise above northern grim limits into a world of sleek , cosmopolitan opportunity , and at the same time an anxiety to retain one 's roots . |
| 4 | As agriculture had so near a connection with horticulture therefore he kept at the same time an observant eye on everything which occurred in rural economy , particularly the cultivation of ploughed lands . |
| 5 | Neither a sociological nor a psychological type , he represents an assemblage of mental attitudes , providing a kind of vade-mecum and at the same time an ironic counterpoint to the anxieties of a public that is presumed by the book itself to have lost faith in totalizing explanations and englobing narratives . |
| 6 | At the same time an equal segment is added on the left . |
| 7 | At the same time an ‘ open-style ’ management is also valued because that will further negotiating skills . |
| 8 | The union agreement relevant to this case contained provisions for a shortened working week and at the same time an increase in monthly salary for full-time employees . |
| 9 | The ability of the counsellor to be part of a group , fully involved and an interested party , but at the same time an ‘ observer ’ , may appear to be more difficult than it really is . |
| 10 | Its definitions of femininity as at the same time an artefact and an essence are blatantly incompatible , and its attempts to account for all aspects of subjectivity in terms of fixed gender categories , inadequate . |
| 11 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 12 | No , they it 's the council collects it and in Uttlesford , that 's why I said we should get at the same time an Uttlesford councillor because I would |
| 13 | A typical exhibit , Thomas Kapielsky 's witty ‘ Käseplatte ’ is an object the size and shape of a record ( platte ) which also looks like a section of a round cheese ( Käse ) ; but the thing visualises at the same time an untranslatable German pun ( while ‘ Käseplatte ’ is normally a selection of cheeses in a restaurant , ‘ Käse ’ is also colloquial for crap which can of course refer to music as well as to art … ) . |
| 14 | An uncomfortable inner part appears , and at the same time an awkward leap across the strings between the last semiquaver of bar 4 and the first of bar 5 in the top part gives us pause . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This ‘ explosion of the instincts ’ was at the same time an explosion of contingency into the world of order . |
| 17 | The Aeschylean Prometheus , however , expresses at the same time an Apolline demand for justice characteristic of his author . |
| 18 | At the same time an uneasy shudder passed through all those sitting round the table . |
| 19 | Sacher said that the StB had been " a product and at the same time an instrument of the former totalitarian power " . |
| 20 | At the same time an agreement was signed providing for a grant of 2,400,000 European currency units ( ECU1=US$1.19255 as at March 26 , 1990 ) to help combat marine pollution especially by oil . |
| 21 | At the same time an Army convoy was attacked in Amparai district and 10 soldiers were killed . |
| 22 | At the same time an acceptable balance should be maintained between commercial interests and the character of the area and the welfare of the local residents . |
| 23 | May the MEDAU SOCIETY continue to blossom , grow and stay alive — it is an example for us and at the same time an inspiration to continue our work for the benefit of people everyone . |
| 24 | The kind of attention that we usually associate with love or hate , and at the same time an acute awareness of limits , of closed worlds , of helplessness , of traps of unsatisfiable longing — the sort of awareness that we associate rather with pity or fear . |
| 25 | At the specified time an offline handler screen will be displayed on the selected terminal ( assuming that it is not in use by another VMS user ) . |