Example sentences of "same time a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These difficulties arise to some extent from the inability of most technicians to communicate adequately , while at the same time a person with a lawyer 's background and education is seldom capable of assessing scientific factors and natural laws without allowing personal opinions to become involved .
2 A rift has opened between realism and something beyond , and at the same time a link has been forged between Dostoevsky 's favourite phrase , the deeper realism , and my own apocalyptic naturalism .
3 At the same time a Ministry subsidy was introduced on the cost of cartridges used for rabbit and pigeon clearance .
4 At the same time a revolution in mental attitudes was taking place : like Wordsworth , Coleridge was disillusioned by Napoleon 's conquests .
5 At the same time a referendum on his rule should determine the extent of parliament 's legitimacy .
6 At about the same time a consortium of West European banks refused to grant Cuba the credits it had requested , apparently as a result of US pressure .
7 At the same time a check should be made to ensure that the private sector passes on only the handling charge to its patients .
8 ‘ We happened to be in the same place at the same time a couple of months ago , ’ she replied , terse and offhand .
9 This , it is claimed , provides at the same time a clue as to the meaning of fiction ; for fiction really is the result of treating that which can exist only derivatively , or " parasitically " , as if it existed in its own right .
10 At the same time a reforestation telethon will be broadcast live via satellite and by radio around the world .
11 At the same time a case was made to the Boundary Commission to bring the area wholly into New Alresford .
12 Almost at the same time a loud-voiced and unpopular Dominican priest made an outspoken attack against all mathematicians and Galileo supporters .
13 At the same time a change in the industrial mix had been in progress with traditional energy intensive industries in decline and service-based , high technology industries on the increase .
14 At the same time a change of register is always a relief , and a theme which is ‘ opened out ’ over a wide span has a greater emotional potential than one which stays in a small area .
15 The West German system is at the same time a plurality or " first-past.the-post " system , a list system and an additional member system : in short a mixed system , which may be conveniently designated in the following pages by the initials WGMS .
16 At the same time a platoon from A Company were finishing their week attached to the 1st Battalion the Danish Life Regiment , during which time they were thundering over training areas in the Danish Ml 13 Armoured Personnel Carrier .
17 It might be worth recalling Walter Benjamin 's view that there is always a verso and recto to history — each document of civilisation is at the same time a document of barbarism .
18 He was a straightforward patriot , and , most of all , a man of action , who was at the same time a man of natural sensitivity towards suffering .
19 At the same time a majority of 23 per cent of Labour partisans claimed the BBC was pro-Conservative and anti-Labour .
20 At the same time a campaign against welfare scroungers was launched to make unemployment financially and socially undesirable .
21 At the same time a breakdown in the relations between the Mercians and the West Saxons left the Mercians temporarily friendless and isolated in southern England ( see below , p. 179 ) .
22 In the words of the new Socialist minister of transport , RENFE was ‘ at the same time a breeding ground and nursery for training ministers who then went into the government , and an elephant 's graveyard for those leaving the government ’ ( quoted in El Nuevo Lunes , 24–30 January 1983 ) .
23 But at the same time a claim is being made concerning factual evidence about God 's existence .
24 At the same time a polarisation of opinion in Aquitaine was gradually taking place , largely in favour of English rule , and by 1337 tension had reached a high level .
25 At the same time a tax allowance in respect of children of married taxpayers whose annual incomes were less than £500 was introduced .
26 At one political meeting last month , I was abused being at one and the same time a pro-Marketeer , an anti-devolutionist , and , horror of horrors , pro-Sizewell ( AGR tendency only , I hasten to add ) .
27 It is worth noting too that it can arise in different types of trust , either in a simple trust for restitution , for instance on death ; or in a continuing trust such as the fideicommissa familiae relicta discussed in Chapter IV , in which each successive beneficiary is at the same time a trustee for other family members .
28 At the same time a wind blew briefly across the harbour , rippling the water and putting the gulls to squawking flight .
29 At the same time a fraud unit has begun to probe Mr Spiro 's business dealings including those in the Middle East allegedly involving arms dealing .
30 At the same time a klaxon sounded and Russian sailors cleared the deck .
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