Example sentences of "at the same [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the taste of the stranger — who might at the same time be rooted , as he himself was , in some national life . |
| 2 | The work of art was especially fitted to reveal this , since its audience may both criticize , yet at the same time be involved in , its enactment . |
| 3 | How then is it possible that a gesture I saw performed by one person , a gesture that was connected to her , that characterized her and was part of her individual charm , could at the same time be the essence of another person and my dreams of her ? |
| 4 | It should be clear that a God who was simply ‘ outside ’ the world in the way that the President of France was ‘ outside ’ Britain could hardly at the same time be present in it . |
| 5 | Histoire , whilst at one level a transposition of the discontinuity of experience , can at the same time be considered as providing an implicit commentary on the nature of fiction and writing : the text can be said to be formed from a meditation on a collection of postcards which the narrator is sifting through . |
| 6 | For example , he could not enjoy the power and obvious pleasures of flight , in all probability experienced at some evolutionary stage and retained as a residual ‘ desire ’ , and at the same time be strong enough to do other desired things . |
| 7 | However , you will at the same time be aware that you are ‘ someone else ’ with different feelings , emotions and experiences . |
| 8 | It is therefore advisable that those documents referred to in an accounting context at the same time be considered as audit evidence , and the audit objectives achieved thereby noted clearly on the file . |
| 9 | While the geographical map may be helpful to ensure a measure of blanket coverage , it can at the same time be very misleading if used as the only planning model . |
| 10 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 11 | They may want to control the media capable of reaching large sections of the population , yet at the same time be suspicious of the power these media possess : power which is ultimately beyond their control . |
| 12 | It could still and at the same time be an anglicisation of ‘ Froda ’ , a name ‘ meaningless ’ to hobbits by the time of the War of the Ring , and accepted by them as just another chance disyllable like ‘ Bilba , Bunga , Pola ’ , but actually preserving in oblivion the name of an ancient hero from the Dale or the Mark . |
| 13 | I see ‘ psychosemantic fallacy ’ as a perfect description of anorexia nervosa — a disease in which the concept of the whole person is so confused , so dialectically divided , that ‘ I ’ can at the same time be choosing to live , as the self , and choosing to die , as the body , however unconscious those choices may be . |
| 14 | First , if holism and individualism are to be distinct , causation and autonomy must be mutually exclusive categories : if the autonomous character of action is to stand in the way of the truth of determinism , actions can not at the same time be caused . |
| 15 | It is crucial that researchers aim to be more participative in the way they frame research questions and their methodologies and at the same time be more sympathetic to the subject(s) they are researching . |
| 16 | By ensuring adequate representation of sentencers from all levels of court , in addition to other professionals with experience of the penal system , he suggests that such a body would be capable of developing realistic guidance for sentencing at all levels that should at the same time be acceptable to sentencers themselves . |
| 17 | Back in 1956 Philip Moore declared that : ‘ A massive birth control programme is the only action that will permit European survival and at the same time be acceptable to the rest of the world ’ . |
| 18 | I was not aware — I have not yet received reports — of that demonstration , but I believe that it is ironic that the IRA and its supporters should at the same time be enjoying the privileges of democracy and using the methods of terrorism . |
| 19 | It can certainly happen that a head might at the same time be expected to manage the school democratically by the staff , deferentially by the governors , assertively by the local authority and pliantly by parents . |
| 20 | As we shall see , if the interest rate is used to control exchange rates , it can not at the same time be used to achieve money supply targets . |
| 21 | I believe I picked up the tape-recorder in much the same spirit — because I felt that whatever we did here ought to have a rather spontaneous feel to it , and yet at the same time be noticeably hard-wearing . |
| 22 | The only really satisfactory way to solve the whole problem is to assume that there are certain types of goods which can at the same time be " ordinarily " for private use and for commercial use . |
| 23 | Such ideas had their major influence in South Wales where nearly all men were engaged in mining and could envisage a pure " class struggle " between themselves and the coalowners which would at the same time be a political struggle between the great majority and the rich minority . |
| 24 | If I am writing on this side of the paper I can not at the same moment be writing on the other side . |