Example sentences of "the same time [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Charity begins at home , ’ Ruth suggested wryly at the same time uncharitably thinking that Maria Luisa must have put Fernando under such a terrible strain over something that had nothing to do with him . |
| 2 | There were more hedges but fewer heaths ; in some parts less arable than ever before , in other parts more than ever before ; and the coming of the canals about the same time also introduced new varieties of birds to districts where they had previously never been known . |
| 3 | At the same time also advise him or her that if a cash payment or a banker 's draft is not received within the next five days legal action will be the only alternative . |
| 4 | Where necessary they were also prepared to set up enterprise works committees with employees ' representatives , whilst at the same time strongly opposing external industrial or national unions . |
| 5 | Because he is of the establishment — yet , like Greene , he operates on the margins ; because he is outwardly well presented and benign yet at the same time frequently boiling with rage ; because he writes a crystalline yet subtly dandified prose which does n't give up secrets easily . |
| 6 | Contemporary fascist parties overtly campaign on anti-immigrant platforms , appealing to racist sentiments to oppose the latest wave of ‘ foreign ’ arrivals , and at the same time frequently preserve a deeply antisemitic view of the world . |
| 7 | Loretta launched into her story , at the same time covertly taking stock of Hugh Puddephat 's widow . |
| 8 | It was n't very good , she knew that , she did n't seem able to capture the vulnerable , and at the same time intensely alert , look of their eyes and ears . |
| 9 | The advantage of this self-imposed discipline is that it forces you deliberately to do all that is involved in learning from experience and at the same time markedly increases the lessons learned from your various activities . |
| 10 | ‘ As a breed , ‘ Charlies ’ are very gentle , and yet at the same time strong willed . |
| 11 | In Maxwell , the streams of particle and wave physics had begun to converge , with results that were to be disquieting ; but optics and the structure of matter were at the same time fruitfully interacting . |
| 12 | None of the authorities to which I have so far referred dealt with a situation in which a decision was made which directly affected one party , A , and at the same time indirectly affected a second party , B , so as to raise the question : is there any duty in the decision-making authority to be fair towards B ? |
| 13 | Instead curriculum development centres were set up , physically separate from the Inspectorate and possessing some degree of autonomy , yet at the same time firmly established under Ministry control . |
| 14 | Why give out the message that certain sexual activities are risky whilst at the same time conveniently ignoring the real needs of lesbians ? |
| 15 | McCoist also became his club 's record scorer for Scotland at the same time when getting his 14th goal for Roxburgh . |
| 16 | She really made Seles fight , in a hard-hitting baseline battle which at the same time surely set a new decibel record ! |
| 17 | Little by little he freed himself from the control of the political groups , at the same time successfully exposing their divisions and their increasing isolation . |
| 18 | By evading him earlier that morning she 'd played into his hands , at the same time both increasing his suspicions and giving him the best part of the day to allay them . |
| 19 | It may also be that whereas the British kings intended to replace Oswiu with a more acceptable candidate , Penda sought only to reduce Oswiu to the status of a dependant and at the same time effectively to establish territories such as Lindsey as falling within a southumbrian Mercian orbit . |
| 20 | It was one way of justifying his own self-image as an ‘ unfortunate ’ and at the same time masochistically drawing attention to it . |
| 21 | richest taxpayers whom the independent Institute of Fiscal Studies estimated would lose under our proposals while at the same time completely ignoring the 46 per cent . |
| 22 | A helpful first paragraph , then , offers your reader a " menu " of what will follow , while at the same time already beginning on the argument of the essay . |
| 23 | He was sensitive to this lack of recognition , but at the same time fully understood how much he owed to having been saved from the academic treadmill . |
| 24 | American ( and , to a lesser extent , British ) criticism has tended in the past to be less hierarchical than Italian and at the same time more alert to very minute differences in the type of product and the type of consumer being aimed at by the literary market . |
| 25 | Needless to say Lord Elphinstone did not hesitate to respond to the challenge and rallied his friends , while at the same time pointedly expressing his hope , when writing to the duke , that ‘ neither my friend or I have done any thing to deserve your Grace 's withdrawing your friendship , interest & protection ’ . |
| 26 | With a brief nod and a smile that again dazzled and at the same time almost lulled her into thinking things were going to be normal between them from now on , he left . |
| 27 | How convenient of John Major to have put himself in the position of bringing the Maastricht issue to a head — and at the same time virtually assuring a no-confidence vote in the Government — on the day the sun and Saturn are in a tense 90-degree angle to each other . |
| 28 | This is a zero-sum game ( particularly in the United States ) in that each occurrence of technical upgrading of a TNC plant in a developing country is at the same time proudly announced for host-country consumption by the TNC , and seized upon in the home country as evidence of job destruction . |
| 29 | Heads of department acquired heavier responsibilities , but were at the same time often grouped in wider partnerships — often known , somewhat grandly , as faculties — to encourage more interdisciplinary work and greater flexibility in the use of resources . |
| 30 | I remember Shostakovich was so nervous but at the same time so impressed . |