Example sentences of "but at the [det] time " in BNC.
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| 31 | Of these the most honourable , but at the same time the most burdensome , was tenure by knight service , which involved many irksome ‘ incidents ’ ( see Chapter 2 , note 2 ) . |
| 32 | If he fails to do so , the mortgagee will be entitled to an order of foreclosure absolute , the effect of which will be to vest the mortgaged property in him absolutely , but at the same time to prevent him — even if the property should prove insufficient — from claiming payment from the mortgagor , except upon terms of giving him a fresh right to redeem . |
| 33 | The Government did manage to bring down the rate of income tax , but at the same time we increased the annual budget for health between 1983 and 1987 from £15.5 billion to £20.7 billion and for social security from £36.7 billion to £48.7 billion . |
| 34 | Because God 's home is always open , it means that we are always welcome and there is always forgiveness , God is giving us space to present himself to our hearts as a God of love but at the same time as a God who wants us to grow into his likeness . |
| 35 | Like Jane , Flora had the gift of demolishing characters with a few swift shafts , but at the same time with wit and good humour . |
| 36 | But at the same time the vast majority of the people find themselves to be a single nation and are conscious of resembling one another more than they resemble foreigners . |
| 37 | He was very sorry , but at the same time he could not help feeling excited by the prospect of owning a new jacket . |
| 38 | Victory for either horse would be received rapturously , but at the same time with a tinge of disappointment . |
| 39 | The tone of the festivities was set by Göring 's public eulogy , stating : ‘ We … look back to an unbroken chain of glorious victories such as only one man could attain in a single year of his life , one who is not only a statesman and military commander , but at the same time also Leader and man of the people : our Führer … ’ |
| 40 | I half disapproved of these costumes , they made me feel uncomfortable , but at the same time I admired and envied her , she was so original and unconcerned . |
| 41 | When people walk into an auditorium , one thing ought to happen and another ought not : their attention should be grabbed and held but at the same time they should n't fall flat on their faces because you 've failed to gaffer down a loose wire . |
| 42 | I remember Shostakovich was so nervous but at the same time so impressed . |
| 43 | But at the same time one can not help feeling that Proofs is the kind of story that would have been better off as a three-page essay in Granta . |
| 44 | ‘ Playing at the end of the field , being in contention , keeping myself relaxed but at the same time getting the adrenalin running , ’ explained Faldo . |
| 45 | I think we 're now in the third phase , where women are expected to have a job , but at the same time to look after the family and keep themselves alluring to men . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | They regarded the occupation of land as the essential base of family and community life , but at the same time , they knew they could only survive if they had wage-earning employment as well . |
| 48 | But at the same time it reinforced the message that children in need were not characteristically children whose parents were abusive or neglectful . |
| 49 | Handy , looking from a slightly different perspective of the whole organisation , comes to essentially similar conclusions — everyone will have to be a manager but at the same time , no one can afford to be only a manager . |
| 50 | They are certainly comfortable and assured , but at the same time they have no real chance of converting others to their views , at least if conversion means more than expressing the hope that God will send faith to others too . |
| 51 | But at the same time , to argue that the trust becomes greater , and the faith more admirable , in proportion as the evidence for God becomes slighter , is not our position . |
| 52 | But at the same time a claim is being made concerning factual evidence about God 's existence . |
| 53 | But at the same time , if there is a God , it is perfectly plausible to argue that He would desire the discussion of His existence to proceed in the argumentative , confused and doubting way in which it currently does . |
| 54 | God may be totally other to humanity , but at the same time ( as in the quotation from sura 50 ) God is said to be closer to a human being than is his or her jugular vein . |
| 55 | But at the same time it is surely doing more than assert what God is not . |
| 56 | Development there has been described by Lehmann as ‘ modernisation with fitful growth ’ , because the expansion of the state apparatus has meant modernisation in terms of growing bureaucracy and an increase in formal , at the expense of clientelist and personal , relationships at work but at the same time agricultural productivity has been erratic ( Lehmann 1982 ) . |
| 57 | It felt it could not oppose the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty brokered by the United States in March 1979 , but at the same time viewed it with ambivalence . |
| 58 | She was amazed at herself , scandalised , but at the same time could admire the absolutely impromptu fluency of her wicked vicious ill-intentioned lying to Jack . |
| 59 | But at the same time , I can not escape the feeling that Mr Farraday is not satisfied with my responses to his various banterings . |
| 60 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |