Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] and the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 2 | Base rate was on Sept. 22 further reduced to 9 per cent ( its lowest level since mid-1988 and the first time since 1981 that it stood below the German Lombard rate ) . |
| 3 | History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all . |
| 4 | For this faction , the term ‘ just war ’ has secular as well as religious appeal , an ambiguity which permits them to communicate their cause in direct fashion to left-wing British and right-wing American groups at one and the same time . |
| 5 | Their limbs , torsos and heads can make straight , angled or rounded lines , usually at one and the same time , according to the natural structure of the dancers ' bones and how they are activated by the muscles . |
| 6 | Les Noces practises the art of the general and the art of the particular at one and the same time . |
| 7 | Douglas Jay observed that the later 1970s were a time of genuine recovery — ‘ one of the few examples of any Western governments in the seventies reducing both inflationary pressures and unemployment ’ at one and the same time . |
| 8 | Yet it managed to raise prices and to add to inflation at one and the same time . |
| 9 | Thus , men like Derek Hatton , the leader of Merseyside , and Ken Livingstone , who led the Greater London Council ( after a brutal coup which removed the previous Labour leader , Andrew McIntosh ) became symbols of ideological extremism and financial extravagance at one and the same time . |
| 10 | Notions of the freedom and autonomy of the self are at one and the same time inverted and used to pervert the ethical and metaphysical values which such a self is or was supposed to instantiate . |
| 11 | He suggests that blacks have been ‘ at one and the same time both more accepting of and more hostile towards homosexuality ’ , and that the hostility has often been extreme — as in the case of Eldridge Cleaver 's notorious attack on James Baldwin ( Altman , Homosexual Oppression , esp . |
| 12 | He treats both subjects with a wit which is lucid and ambiguous at one and the same time , so that I recalled Charles Lamb 's remark about the possibility of obscurity through too much meaning . |
| 13 | Now , briefly , possibly for the very first time in his life , he felt helpless and miserable at one and the same time . |
| 14 | The presence of two tricksters on stage at one and the same time is bound to make for comedy , and so it does here . |
| 15 | To their extraordinary stories we Christians can add another , of a man on a cross , whose body is twisted in the shape of God 's pain , and whose eyes blaze with his love and his anger at one and the same time . |
| 16 | That is why it is possible for a Christian in particular to feel at one and the same time joyful because the person who has died has entered eternal life , and overwhelmingly sad , or guilty , or relieved at the thought that they have died and the survivor is left with vast changes to absorb into their life pattern . |
| 17 | On World in Action , Mr Kinnock showed that he can be pithy and incomprehensible at one and the same time . |
| 18 | Continually there is value in the teacher telling the story whilst the class are doing it ; everybody works at one and the same time , discovering for themselves how to do each thing . |
| 19 | In other words , if a majority of member states want to adopt a piece of legislation which has the effect of transferring sovereign powers from national governments to the European Community institutions , that is at one and the same time an expression of national interest . ’ |
| 20 | If I actually follow you down the street in order to be sure that you do n't throw it away or forget to post it , for instance , then I at one and the same time become certain that you 've posted it and display a lack of faith that you will do so . |
| 21 | The ‘ I ’ at one and the same time transcends the body ( so that for instance we talk of our bodies as something separate from ourselves and say that we ‘ have ’ them rather than ‘ are ’ them ) and is immanent or present in the body . |
| 22 | François Guizot , an archetypal representative of the political élite , neatly summed up the Prince 's appeal : ‘ It means a great deal to be at one and the same time a national glory , a revolutionary guarantee , and a principle of authority . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The recognizable direction of social development ’ , she concluded , ‘ has made it clear to me that there is no social class in Poland that has at one and the same time both an interest in , and an ability to achieve , the restoration of Poland ’ . |
| 24 | Otherwise , by securing railway concessions in Persia , the Russians could reach the Gulf and at one and the same time create their longed-for warm-water port and turn the western flank of the British in India . |
| 25 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 26 | False clarity is only another name for myth ; and myth has always been obscure and enlightening at one and the same time : always using the devices of familiarity and straightforward dismissal to avoid the labour of conceptualization . |
| 27 | Perhaps a graphic parallel would be to imagine that a country existed in the middle of Europe which was at one and the same time Catholic , Protestant , Jewish and Islamic , while sharing equally the cultural and economic influence of the USA , USSR , and China ! |
| 28 | It involves at one and the same time our understanding of the nature of God , of the nature of humanity , and of the real depths of the life and unity of the universal Church . |
| 29 | To be vulnerable to pain and love at one and the same time is to be close to the ground of our very being . |
| 30 | Here again two conflicting conventions grew up and were in use at one and the same time in the medieval England of the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |