Example sentences of "[noun pl] while at the same time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Freud , as suggested in Chapter 2 , argued that the state and politics are transferred father figures : organisations and people on whom those with little power and authority can depend for safeguards while at the same time suffering imposed personal restrictions . |
| 2 | By turning a blind eye to the activities of moderate Puritan laymen and clergy while at the same time dealing harshly with Presbyterian extremists , king and archbishop ensured that the first fifteen years of Abbot 's primacy were some of the most tranquil in the religious sphere during the entire century following the break with Rome ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 3 | Typical of the government 's hypocrisy , in Pink 's view , that it could bleat about the failure of exporters while at the same time putting every sort of obstacle in their path . |
| 4 | By locating the opposition between defamiliarization and automatization within the work itself , the Formalists were able to maintain the specifically literary nature of their concerns while at the same time avoiding an intransigent art-for-art 's sake position . |
| 5 | Erm on paragraph twenty erm the government 's proposals will penalise all the camping which takes place outside recognised sites while at the same time I 've already said , removing any incentive or obligation for local authorities to provide enough sites anyway so i it 's , it 's a a total squeeze that on the one hand the government is restricting the number of pitches and then penalising everybody who has n't got one ! |
| 6 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 7 | The Iraqi move into Kuwait was the culmination of several months of incident in the Middle East which appeared to be aimed at building up Saddam Hussein 's anti-Western and anti-Israeli credentials while at the same time confirming Iraq 's regional ascendency . |
| 8 | My hon. Friends have made the good point that the Labour party is posing as the party of carbon dioxide reductions while at the same time it wants to force electricity generators to burn more coal , phase out the nuclear industry and , in its phrase , to ’ deter ’ the generators from using gas for power generation . |
| 9 | By broadening the tax base , he could raise more revenues while at the same time trimming France 's high marginal tax rates . |
| 10 | The Home Office is advising the police to increase the number of officers while at the same time the Department of the Environment is capping local authorities ' spending . |
| 11 | Bruce McNiven , Post Officer counters district manager , said : ‘ We are changing the shape of high street services in line with the needs of our customers while at the same time retaining the traditional services on which the community depends . ’ |
| 12 | In the absence of expanding leaves , shoot growth is essentially the elongation of a cylinder , a geometry ideal for spanning distances while at the same time keeping surface area to a minimum and hence the loss of water by evaporation . |
| 13 | It did something about corruption , by bringing in a new civil-service law which makes officials more accountable for their actions while at the same time making them freer of party patronage . |
| 14 | richest taxpayers whom the independent Institute of Fiscal Studies estimated would lose under our proposals while at the same time completely ignoring the 46 per cent . |
| 15 | Dobry therefore had a difficult task of reconciling apparently irreconcilable objectives : to expedite planning procedures while at the same time facilitating greater public participation and devising a system which would produce better environmental results . |
| 16 | Existing or anticipated high interest rates may in fact depress share prices and hence call prices thus permitting the investor to buy the option contracts at very favourable prices while at the same time benefitting from the attractive rates on offer in the money markets . |
| 17 | I hope that I can approach the issue as a fighter for my constituents ' interests while at the same time recognising the broader issues . |
| 18 | the economic problem of how to finance and defend services while at the same time transforming their character in a socialist direction ; |
| 19 | People need to understand that it is possible to promote the welfare of mentally abnormal offenders while at the same time protecting the public at large . |
| 20 | Owing to their deep-rooted hostility towards the very concept of involuntary unemployment and their a priori conviction that the labour market clears ‘ more or less continuously ’ , new classical macroeconomists are driven to look beyond this obvious explanation towards hypotheses which account for the acknowledged phenomenon of business cycles while at the same time preserving intact their beliefs in the robustness of all markets , including the labour market . |
| 21 | Rather , the idea was to see people as simultaneously subject both to natural and instinctive drives while at the same time caught up in the various forms of culture and social relations which human societies construct in a more conscious way . |
| 22 | The Treaty provisions endeavour to establish a system of workable competition to maintain a choice for consumers , purchasers and suppliers , and to ensure that market entry remains unhindered by anti-competitive practices while at the same time supply and demand are allowed to operate freely , so ensuring that the prices at which goods are sold in the market place are competitive . |
| 23 | So , on the one hand , people are encouraged to reclaim traditional practices while at the same time they must come to terms with the abandonment of other , often related , traditional conceptions . |