Example sentences of "at [num] and the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 ! |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | To be vulnerable to pain and love at one and the same time is to be close to the ground of our very being . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | The reason for this equality of values arises from the fact that a financial claim is at one and the same time an asset to one economic unit and a liability to another . |
| 37 | It has 21 roads , on which about 120 vehicles of an average length of 50ft can be painted at one and the same time . |
| 38 | Twenty-four of the longest bodies can be built at one and the same time . |
| 39 | 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 ) . |
| 40 | Just as the citizens of these towns were fervent churchmen and fierce anticlericals almost at one and the same time , so the true relationship of town and country was always one of hate and love . |
| 41 | She was both a clever woman and a fool at one and the same time . |
| 42 | And so the game , er … exercise , continued until Mr Grovey ran out of ideas AND made his big mistake at one and the same time . |
| 43 | Both public and private versions were held in the mind at one and the same time . |
| 44 | More than one myth can be held ‘ in the mind ’ at one and the same time . |
| 45 | The first three Gospels , Matthew , Mark and Luke , if placed side by side , are seen , at one and the same time , to be both similar and dissimilar . |
| 46 | LAST YEAR the Conservatives were telling us how clever they were to have been able to cut taxation and to increase public spending at one and the same time . |
| 47 | At one and the same time , you benefit from the best available local plans tailored to suit your company 's needs and the backing of an experienced and reliable international Network , for a cost-benefit ratio that may well astound you . |
| 48 | Self-awareness , at its deepest level , involves at one and the same time awareness both of our finitude and of the infinity on which we depend . |
| 49 | At bottom this division is based on the fact that he is at one and the same time part of the natural order — along with the elements , plants and animals — yet also a spiritual and personal being who feels a destiny and calling to rule over the natural world . |
| 50 | There are also difficulties of child-rearing and politicking at one and the same time . |
| 51 | Most important is GlavPU , the Chief Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy , at one and the same time an organ of the Ministry of Defence and of the Central Committee , where it has departmental status . |
| 52 | ‘ There is a crisis in Marxism ’ , Sartre announced at the beginning of the Critique ; this crisis , not the first and not to be the last , Sartre characterized as the result of a paradox in which historical materialism had become ‘ at one and the same time , the only truth of History and a total indetermination of the Truth ’ ( I , 19 ) . |
| 53 | Furthermore , this very development of the family as a relatively private and semi-autonomous sphere has , at one and the same time , left the wife free to develop interests outside the home but also , through the increasing stress on the importance of the home in childhood socialization and the growth of adult personalities , laid much of this new domestic responsibility on women . |
| 54 | As Cole points out , the Pioneers ‘ were setting out to be at one and the same time a Producers ’ and a Consumers ' Society ; and this seemed natural to them because all their endeavours were meant to lead to the creation of a Co-operative Community on the Owenite model , in which the distinction between producers and consumers would not exist . ’ |
| 55 | Still , they were to be forgiven because the course they adopted , of ‘ setting out to be at one and the same time a Producers ’ and a Consumers ' Society' seemed natural to them . |
| 56 | Inside the ark were the tablets of the law — the supreme verbal statement of God 's holiness ( 26:16 ) ; at one and the same time the reason why God dwelt alone ( for none can match his holiness ) , and why by means of blood a sinner might enter his presence ( for the blood speaks of life laid down in payment for sin ) . |
| 57 | At one and the same time he seemed to accept every word and yet to be stricken with fear . |
| 58 | You can and should " learn to learn " and " learn to live " at one and the same time . |
| 59 | These patterns are at one and the same time both common-place and elusive . |
| 60 | Here we are concerned with a form of corporate provision that can also be used to provide at one and the same time a safety net and a reward for initiative . |