Example sentences of "the same time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However much both sectors might underline their commitment to high-quality education for students and other values of higher education as a whole , the struggle to define and remove boundaries at the same time led to uncertainty and ambiguity , tension and even ‘ ill-will ’ between the sectors . |
| 2 | In consequence , the Joint Contract Tribunal ( JCT ) extended their terms of reference to assume responsibility for the production of standard forms of subcontract and at the same time enlarged their membership by inviting the two main subcontractors ' organisations to become constituent bodies . |
| 3 | Her husband admired her serious-mindedness , and at the same time saw that her absence of humour held comic promise for his act . |
| 4 | He felt a sense of guilt but at the same time knew he could never have spoken to her anyway . |
| 5 | On that instant she put down her comb , and turned her back on her dressing-table mirror — and at the same time rejected any notion that she felt in any way excited . |
| 6 | The virtue of immediate or shortly forthcoming abolition of the trade abolitionists proclaimed as an act of justice and humanity which at the same time offered the greatest stimulus to reform of slavery on the plantations . |
| 7 | Japan at the same time offered an extra $50,000,000 in technical and food aid . |
| 8 | Chapman , he said , had begged him not to let Buchan go , but at the same time made it clear that , because of his previous suspension for alleged financial irregularities at Leeds in 1919 , he preferred not to have anything to do with extra payments . |
| 9 | The allegation was that she did not do enough to help her , and over a period of time this had made the carer extremely angry , and at the same time made their mother dissatisfied about the care she was receiving . |
| 10 | I was very apprehensive and the fact that they took away the radio at the same time made our suspicions worse . |
| 11 | This was not the first time that water had been collected in bulk , but hitherto those who indulged in the practice had generally been powerful bodies , like water or railway companies , who had acted under powers given them by legislation which at the same time made them liable for harm done by its escape . |
| 12 | He had in prospect a time of truce , while Janet , an expert manager , in a trouser suit well adapted to the task , gave him very real help with the laying-up , but at the same time made a series of unacceptable comparisons between the caravan and Rochester . |
| 13 | They can never take that championship away for us , and at the same time made the scum pay the ultimate price ( he-he-he ) . |
| 14 | He had introduced her to physical passion , and at the same time ignited a fire in his own sensual , earthy Taurean nature that had proved impossible to quench . |
| 15 | Feeling somehow challenged , Rory sent him one of her teasing , provocative smiles , but at the same time experienced a strange surge of protectiveness . |
| 16 | Unfortunately Gaunt had claims on the Castilian crown which induced him to put these interests before priorities in France and at the same time drove the formidable Castilian navy into alliance with the French . |
| 17 | And whilst we had no opportunities last year for canvassing or erm for getting members we we could have I I felt er put on more fund-raising events as we had a quiet year and we could have probably at the same time persuaded one or two people to actually join us . |
| 18 | Cabrera 's possible detection of a monopole last year aroused a great deal of excitement , but at the same time raised the question of why he had succeeded , where the many other experimental searches had failed . |
| 19 | PAISLEY Chief Office staff shed several pounds during a sponsored slim — but at the same time raised many more for the town 's Accord Hospice . |
| 20 | On Oct. 13 the National Bank of Ethiopia — the central bank — raised interest rates ; the government at the same time raised government workers ' wages , for the first time since the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 , by up to 110 per cent . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The same paternalistic attitude probably emanated from some of the more indigenous landed gentry of the district , who at the same time harboured misgivings over the flood of workers into the quiet township . |
| 23 | His approach to such standards as Miss Otis Regrets , All the things you are and Maria was serious , but at the same time conveyed the feeling of sophistication so essential to this genre . |
| 24 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 25 | Chris Bird , exploration team leader of the Atlantic Frontier Programme said : ‘ The success of the survey has accelerated the whole ‘ 204 ’ exploration and appraisal programme and at the same time enabled us to obtain additional data on the area . ’ |
| 26 | He was close to Ceausescu — and at the same time kept Moscow informed . |
| 27 | Baldwin shunted him to the editorship of the official British Gazette , ‘ to stop him doing worse things ’ , but at the same time kept control over what was published by the remarkable feat of giving Davidson , a junior minister at the Admiralty , some real power of censorship over what the Chancellor of the Exchequer wrote . |
| 28 | She therefore advertised the garage as being for rent , and at the same time got herself a job as a secretary to an insurance broker , to fill in the time until Peter should be at home permanently or a family should arrive . |
| 29 | There just was n't much British around that had an edge and at the same time looked good . |
| 30 | Another BBC report at about the same time reflected official thinking : ‘ The wheel of Aflaqi aggression has been turning with the help of Gulf petrodollars . ’ |