Example sentences of "at one and the [adj] time " in BNC.
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31 | Twenty-four of the longest bodies can be built at one and the same time . |
32 | 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 ) . |
33 | 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 . |
34 | She was both a clever woman and a fool at one and the same time . |
35 | 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 . |
36 | Both public and private versions were held in the mind at one and the same time . |
37 | More than one myth can be held ‘ in the mind ’ at one and the same time . |
38 | 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 . |
39 | 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 . |
40 | 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 . |
41 | 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 . |
42 | 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 . |
43 | There are also difficulties of child-rearing and politicking at one and the same time . |
44 | 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 . |
45 | ‘ 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 ) . |
46 | 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 . |
47 | 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 . ’ |
48 | 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 . |
49 | 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 ) . |
50 | At one and the same time he seemed to accept every word and yet to be stricken with fear . |
51 | You can and should " learn to learn " and " learn to live " at one and the same time . |
52 | These patterns are at one and the same time both common-place and elusive . |
53 | 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 . |
54 | The music at one and the same time offers escape from the banalities of social life and is continuous with them ; its twin functions are thus distraction ( music as narcotic ) and affirmation : ‘ accepting what there is … identifying … with the inescapable product ’ ( Adorno 1976 : 41 ; 1978a : 288 ) . |
55 | Wilson had for some time claimed to the International Transport Workers ' Federation that the Shipping Federation would crumble if the fight could be carried to every port at one and the same time . |
56 | Reality is a virgin whose virtue we all want to believe in , and , at one and the same time , an old whore who we 've all had and had and had again , until our eyes and ears are like genitals that have been rubbed raw . |
57 | As he spoke something untoward had begun to occur , something that was at one and the same time obscene and yet oddly natural . |
58 | They want , at one and the same time , to be ‘ independent ’ of Government and to be involved in the processes of government . |
59 | This effort on Nizan 's part to promote orthodox sectarian communist party ideology within a bourgeois context found no greater expression than during the year he spent in Bourg-en-Bresse , when he was at one and the same time philosophy teacher at the Lycee Lalande and communist party candidate at the general election of 1932 . |
60 | At one and the same time advocacy for dispersal from big cities was related to proposals for planned development in the depressed regions . |