Example sentences of "the same time [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He must be sagacious and have good judgement , be patient and yet at the same time firm in maintaining the interests of the ruler he represented .
2 To inject a little infusion of vinegar , and at the same time stick to the truth , must seem to those who know Jim intimately to be an almost impossible feat .
3 At the same time rules of conduct were established for the behaviour of member nations .
4 At the same time estimates of demand-led expenditure on social security have been increased still further .
5 At the same time physicians in government clinics in Gaza examined an impossibly large number of patients — on average 100 patients per day , while in UNRWA clinics a doctor would examine between 70 and 120 patients daily .
6 The Unit is based within the Department of Sociology and its staff and students are at the same time members of the department .
7 The direction of the technology is one of control over nature , yield maximisation , and at the same time reliability of quality , control over yields and harvesting dates ; as a whole it responds quickly to the needs of the market .
8 At the same time concern for historical accuracy , as well as psychological honesty , is a characteristic of the modern writer .
9 At the same time look for the mixed metaphor , which occurs far too often and adds nothing ( except humour ) to the sentence .
10 At the same time look for referral opportunities , for example if a group hobby has been identified then who does your client do that hobby with ?
11 It is a matter of social conscience to go on explaining and proposing , and at the same time help in organising and educating the victims .
12 As the town began to grow and at the same time fragment in strange , squalid and unforeseen ways , the gardens became symbolic in a different fashion .
13 At the same time warrants of arrest were issued for a number of former ministers and other Ershad associates .
14 At the same time qualities of loyalty , caring and unashamed affection are highlighted as lives become ever more intimately linked by bereavement .
15 The ideal was both " modern " and at the same time conservative in its outlook .
16 At the same time top up the water and , if necessary , replace the shoot with a fresh shoot of the same kind .
17 Somehow the country has managed to consume more energy per capita than anywhere else other than rich ( and notoriously thriftless ) Canada and the United States and at the same time plunge into a state close to bankruptcy .
18 Butlin 's blend maybe did n't look too modern for very long once chartered air travel offered a world of new possibilities to the British holiday-maker , and at the same time patterns of leisure were developing more privatized forms .
19 At the same time revisions of transport legislation , to improve road safety and to extend the width limit on lorries to comply with international standards , were approved by 898,718 votes ( 52.8 per cent ) to 803,540 ( 47.2 per cent ) .
20 At bottom this division is based on the fact that he is at one and the same time part of the natural order — along with the elements , plants and animals — yet also a spiritual and personal being who feels a destiny and calling to rule over the natural world .
21 Dispossessed and relatively powerless groups — for example , American blacks or white working-class youths — articulate their various perspectives , as victims , on the dominant reality through musics which accept the basic rhythmic-harmonic framework derived from the tradition of notated music but at the same time work against this in various ways , notably by superimposing on the framework musical techniques typical of oral cultures .
22 Consistency is explicit in the same time scale of two weeks .
23 Commentators described Gorbachev 's remarks , particularly the juxtaposition of his announcement about possible secession with his comment about his own and perestroika 's fate , as a bold gamble to confront and try to contain separatist aspirations by endorsing a constitutional path to independence for republics , but at the same time warning of dire consequences should they follow it .
24 At the same time changes of wave direction are imposed on waves by the sea bottom interfering with the flow pattern in the waves , but these directional changes are considered later on .
25 Acts of nomination are at the same time acts of ‘ classification ’ .
26 At the same time demand for spending is increasing .
27 They are phrases which indicate a topic of interest ( i.e. your focus ) and at the same time point towards a particular kind of discussion ( i.e. your mode of argument ) .
28 They want to use less fuel and cause less pollution , but at the same time recoil from too many sacrifices in terms of comfort and performance .
29 The warden pointed out that time was not of the essence as it has taken since 1977 to strengthen the bell tower and rehang the bells , all carried out by villagers , needless to say I did not visualise the same time cycle for my part of the job .
30 At the same time governments in most industrial nations have responded by focussing their R&D support away from applied programmes to longer term strategic research .
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