Example sentences of "the same time it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time it offered great entertainment for the onlookers . |
| 2 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |
| 3 | At the same time it afforded a public opportunity for emulation in what Veblen would have termed conspicuous waste . |
| 4 | ‘ I never wanted to leave Wigan — it would have been a downward step — but at the same time it had to be right for me . |
| 5 | At the same time it ruled that in the case of Pontevedra in north-western Spain , where eight seats were at issue as the result of apparent polling irregularities , elections would have to be repeated in about 30 polling areas . |
| 6 | In doing so it also extended and sharpened the tools by which it assured standards across the growing territory of higher education , but at the same time it struggled with the problem of those institutions which increasingly felt that they had served a long enough apprenticeship . |
| 7 | I WAS EXTREMELY moved by Charles Fox 's superb article on Stephen Hawking ( ‘ Stephen Hawking , Superstar ’ ) , but at the same time it left me feeling uneasy . |
| 8 | At the same time it assured that those who , under weaker leadership , might have suffered at the hands of armies , could live in greater security . |
| 9 | At the same time it received a B.2 trolley mast , hoops over the end of the upper deck , folding platform steps and slatted gates between the bogies instead of the wire cages . |
| 10 | At the same time it formed the core of the unusually powerful organised trade-union movement . |
| 11 | Even in non-industrial Bordeaux ( 1873 ) it formed only 40 per cent of the wealth left at death in 1873 ( 23 per cent of the biggest fortunes ) , while in industrial Lille at the same time it formed only 31 per cent . |
| 12 | As with all good day dreams you were confident that one day this world would materialize and yet at the same time it seemed as unattainable as another planet . |
| 13 | At the same time it launched an ideological offensive launched to justify this approach to solving the crisis . |
| 14 | At the same time it became increasingly apparent that research using instruments like the PARI was not producing clear-cut relationships : on the basis of attitudinal measures alone it has proved difficult to predict child personality . |
| 15 | At the same time it rolled out a corporate advertising campaign intended to convince the business world that coal is an economic fuel . |
| 16 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
| 17 | Well one of the great lessons of life is of course you ca n't have everything you want all at the same time it took me about sixty years to learn that . |
| 18 | On March 21st , a despatch from Falkenhayn admitted that Rupprecht had been right about the British not being able to take the offensive , and at the same time it ordered the withdrawal of three of his divisions for the general reserve . |
| 19 | At the same time it diverted attention away from the underlying structural explanations of society and economy , as part of a general process of ‘ mystification ’ whereby surface manifestations are confused for root causes . |
| 20 | At the same time it recommended enhanced powers for chief executives to arbitrate in sensitive political matters : for example , applying the rules for party balance on committees , determining whether an individual council has a need to inspect a document or attend a meeting , and deciding which chief officers should attend party group meetings . |
| 21 | At the same time it feared that Britain 's vulnerability to modern weapons was such that her value as a base might be short-lived . |
| 22 | The examination not only confirmed the findings of the comparison stage of the FAOR study , but also highlighted the difficulties and expense that would be involved if the proposals were to be implemented at the level suggested ; at the same time it helped to dispel certain misconceptions about the needs of the users overall . |
| 23 | US officials reportedly expressed concerns that the Soviet side had drawn back from previously agreed elements of the START treaty , and that at the same time it appeared to be adopting a less conciliatory stance on other arms control and disarmament issues , such as the ceiling on troops in Central Europe and the outline of an " Open Skies " treaty agreed in February [ ibid . ] . |
| 24 | But at the same time it showed that there remained a solid contingent of the defence force loyal to General Noriega , who is wanted in the US on drug-trafficking charges . |
| 25 | Yet at the same time it reminded her all too clearly of something she was dreading more and more . |
| 26 | At the same time it urged the US Federal Reserve Board to revert to pre-1979 policies , concentrating on management of interest rates rather than of the money supply . |
| 27 | But at the same time it reinforced the message that children in need were not characteristically children whose parents were abusive or neglectful . |
| 28 | At the same time it gave encouragement to local amenity groups to press for improvements . |
| 29 | At the same time it gave a signal to aspiring heads that a commitment to the improvement of education had to be accompanied by a capacity to marshal minds and money . |
| 30 | Yet at the same time it created a potential new ‘ problem ’ with regard to how ownership of land was to be transferred . |