Example sentences of "the same time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 31 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 32 | The orchestra , extremely democratically-run and independent-minded , was bruised , strained and a little anxious about its standards after clashes with the great maestro , who at the same time had spent less and less time with it . |
| 33 | Already during the uncanny calm of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the winter of 1939–40 , Hitler had hinted at a successful end to the conflict during 1940 , and at the same time had further blamed England and France for deliberately prolonging the war through their influence on previously neutral countries . |
| 34 | Their manager , standing in the wings , wondered what Arthur was yakking about , and at the same time had a moment of seeing them as Gandhi carrying a buffalo . |
| 35 | The reason for the sale by Y to Z was that Z at the same time accepted a hire purchase proposal relating to the same car from M , a customer of Y's . |
| 36 | And cultural modernism , in challenging such identity , at the same time challenged the very structure of the German state . |
| 37 | She had a thriving business in Wallingford High Street , before the recession hit her customers pockets and at the same time sent her overheads soaring . |
| 38 | As he was drawn towards the Eye the terror-struck Rincewind raised the box protectively , and at the same time heard the picture imp say , ‘ They 're about ripe now , ca n't hold them any longer . |
| 39 | He congratulated them , but at the same time insisted that , for the time being at least , they must move towards some sort of accommodation with the Poles . |
| 40 | There was a strong monarchist party among the Evallonians , who wished to reinstate their former dynasty , at present represented by an attractive young prince , and at the same time insisted on the revision of Evallonian boundaries . |
| 41 | Yet while it may not be possible , in a given case , to come to a clear decision one way or the other , it can not , I shall argue , be coherently assumed that a decision is logically impossible and at the same time insisted that the object in question exists in an ontological sense . |
| 42 | The CNAA at the same time agreed a ‘ reciprocal transfer ’ of credit with the Open University , and related to , and negotiated with , a variety of other bodies in higher education . |
| 43 | The Yugo ( nee Zastava ) , built in Yugoslavia , managed to escape the Iron Curtain car jokes but at the same time escaped , completely , the attention of press and public . |
| 44 | Due to my forward speed the mat and my feet ended up under the AOC 's desk at the same time saluted , and my Wolseley sun helmet sped to the opposite corner of the room . |
| 45 | At about the same time came the Immorality Act , which made sexual relations between different races a crime against the state . ’ |
| 46 | At the same time came a request for ‘ a handful or two of white cedar cones for Philip Miller , for in separating the seeds , by accident he had none . ’ |
| 47 | Around the same time came two cantatas , ‘ Holyrood ’ ( 1861 ) , and ‘ Daughter of the Isles ’ ( 1862 ) , and two works given at Covent Garden : the operetta Romance , or Bold Dick Turpin ( 1860 ) and the romantic opera Ida , or the Guardian Storks ( 1865 ) . |
| 48 | But he established another less welcome precedent which became common in headhunting firms in the future : he took a professional , workmanlike and effective attitude towards solving the corporate problems of others , but at the same time failed to keep his own house in order . |
| 49 | While attempting to give financial autonomy to schools the government has at the same time failed to help the market — that is , parents and pupils — to decide what subjects should be studied . |
| 50 | Pressure from the STUC and the Scottish Labour Party over the 1960s had helped to channel considerable regional aid to Scotland , which partly reversed the country 's relative economic decline ( Begg and Lythe , 1977 ) but did not eliminate high unemployment , and at the same time brought recognition of a ‘ Scottish dimension ’ to economic policy . |
| 51 | Yet to a very large extent German efforts were contradictory : Völkisch opinion wished Germany to remain as it was and yet somehow to return to the past ; they wanted to return to the past yet at the same time wished for the power to behave as they pleased . |
| 52 | ‘ My father , Mr F. Lavender , was appointed Town Clerk of Bishop 's Castle in 1922 , in succession to Mr Ernest Griffiths and at the same time purchased the latter 's solicitors ’ practice and the old office building . |
| 53 | It is at the same time stressed , however , that it is not the " true function of literature " to engage with the contemporary " social problem " . |
| 54 | Israeli officials , while offering a more rapid review of the deportation cases , at the same time stressed that the ultimate decision on when the Palestinians would be repatriated from Lebanon was not up to the government but to courts . |
| 55 | Tokenism , as this ‘ women 's season ’ showed , can be useful in that as well as making a gesture towards ‘ minority ’ interest it at the same time betokened the absence of women 's film on television which it sought to undo . |
| 56 | For many British people of my generation , the sight of great ships sailing for a remote theatre of action , their rails lined with cheering soldiers , at once evoked echoes of convoys leaving for Africa or the Far East , yet at the same time produced surprise at the media coverage and the openness with which these preparatory stages , and indeed the later fighting , appeared to be reported . |
| 57 | The granite pillars and gendarmes kept the sun from warming us , but at the same time emphasised the tenuous nature of the couloir . |
| 58 | How could she produce anything that bore the stamp of continuity and at the same time managed to be fresh and original ? |
| 59 | Nothing , he found , was more effective — as he tried to devise an inner world that at the same time avoided the black hole of dejection — than work , solitary work , work in which one was gladly buried . |
| 60 | The word was said with such vehemence , yet at the same time sounded so funny , that he almost laughed . |