Example sentences of "the same time [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Keep your foot flexed and start slowly circling your right leg , at the same time bringing it up in the air .
2 The reason behind this two-stage approach is that it is often very difficult for the viewers of the demonstration to understand the principles of how a product works while at the same time watching it work .
3 Other examples in the Renaissance include the malcontent who haunts the very power structure which has alienated him , seeking reinscription within it but at the same time demystifying it , operating within and subverting it at the same time ; the revengers whose actions constitute an even more violent bid for reinscription within the very society which has alienated and dispossessed them ; the assertive women , the ‘ women on top ’ described by Natalie Zemon Davis who simultaneously appropriate , exploit , and undermine masculine discourse .
4 When Jess holds the ball , looking for men to beat , the truly hooked observer is caught in that exquisite dilemma of wishing he 'd get rid of it so as not to risk failure , while at the same time hoping he 'll carry on regardless and do something outrageous .
5 According to the Liberal-Irish alliance , the Irish party was supposed to abstain from the 1901 Conservative bill , aimed at bringing denominational schools in England and Wales into the national education system while at the same time absenting them from local government control : that is , giving finance while maintaining the system of denominational clerical control .
6 So I am proposing with him to er undertake a fairly simple but comprehensive business of reading the bass clef , using the left hand , and introducing it into the kind of music that he already plays , and at the same time getting him to play other music as well , which he seems to be very happy .
7 They also enabled women to challenge male professional power while at the same time implicating them in coercive class regulation .
8 This is a technique developed by Lotus for making these modular features available while at the same time allowing you to see the document page — so you can edit a drawing while viewing it in context .
9 During the journey home she sat pondering this fact , at the same time realising she must not allow her thoughts to become emotionally involved with this devastating man .
10 Lightly he brushed her breasts with his lips , at the same time cupping them , gently caressing with his thumbs until her nipples ached with desire .
11 After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) .
12 With lean production , they say , Japanese manufacturers more of less doubled the number of models they offered between 1982 and the '90s , at the same time replacing them every four years .
13 One of the most destructive of all emotions , guilt can inflict real damage upon both the physical and mental health while at the same time causing us to feel that we may have irretrievably lost our spiritual path .
14 It did something about corruption , by bringing in a new civil-service law which makes officials more accountable for their actions while at the same time making them freer of party patronage .
15 I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in .
16 Nasser 's lower-middle-class background contributed to the widening of his political interests beyond those imaginable to the fellahin , the peasantry ; while at the same time making him aware of the latter 's situation , and the political and economic oppression suffered .
17 On some days Marcus said nothing to him at all , while at the same time making it , without word or gesture , clear that his presence was helpful .
18 The death of Gay News provoked a considerable growth in out-of-London calls for information no longer available in that magazine 's supplement , while at the same time making it far more difficult for us to obtain the information the callers needed and throwing an internal emphasis on that side of our work .
19 Our personal involvement with them brings them the warmth of human love , while at the same time raising them up and beyond their problems to the love and healing of God .
20 But the aim now is not necessarily to liberate sexuality ( the sexual drive ) , but to eroticize the social while at the same time releasing it from the grip of sexuality especially as manifested in the ideology of sexual difference .
21 When it was clear that the putsch had failed , Yeltsin made Grachev a hero and even proposed ( what was not yet properly in his gift ) the post of Soviet defence minister but its leaders were still at large , Yeltsin offered Grachev the future post of Russian defence minister , at the same time asking him to help arrest the plotters .
22 The officer , obviously unnerved by the continued shooting , was trying to persuade the Phalangists to leave the area while at the same time asking them for directions .
23 I do not recollect that we ever tried it , although my father did bring me home a bottle containing two or three sticks of white phosphorus , at the same time showing me the mark on his thigh where , so he said , a piece of phosphorus has fallen while he was attempting to write on a wall with it .
24 When those who believe in war refuse to do their duty , that is , when they refuse to fight for some reason or other , Gandhi feels it to be his moral duty to enlighten them as to their responsibilities as soldiers , while at the same time presenting them with the alternative path of ahi sā .
25 If emptiness , like passivity , is seen as an identifying characteristic of womanhood , we can see that the anorexic recognises and even values her own ( potential ) womanhood , while at the same time denying it .
26 The igloo idea was Leo 's : ‘ It was designed to put the trainees ’ skills to the test while at the same time motivating them and holding their interest . ’
27 The metal strip at the side of the card holds an electrical charge — like a piece of recording tape ; this machine reads that , to make sure it 's of the current pattern , while at the same time photographing me and my tag and weighing me .
28 Arising out of these conditions , and at the same time reinforcing them , was a widespread and buoyant expectation of continuous growth which was powerful enough to ride out random shocks [ Allsop , 1979 ] .
29 Ownership of this asset accordingly conferred unchallengeable power and influence on a comparative minority , while at the same time working it gave the overwhelming majority of the population their livelihood .
30 They found themselves becoming increasingly dependent on their dealer 's advice , at the same time sensing it might be fatal .
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