Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] the [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | We too would like to see some pensioner and pensioner trustees on that trustee board , but we do also recognise because it is er a large scheme heavily weighted er with er pensioners and deferred pensioners in the very fact that it has been transferred from the public centre of public er sector into the private sector , that we would like to see an independent trustee er er appointed on to the er Committee of Management it would er er sort of act as a balance and be able to provide er specialist advice to particularly the Trade Union Trustees and for that matter the Employer Trustees so as to keep a broad balance of what 's happening within the that time . |
| 2 | Israel and I were both on our knees , side by side , with tears streaming down our faces , yet laughing at the same time . |
| 3 | He was crying and laughing at the same time . |
| 4 | This is occurring at the same time as the Commission is using the single market as an excuse to augment its power for political means . |
| 5 | Frequently it is found that an accident is the result of a combination of adverse circumstances , each of which is normally containable but when occurring at the same time can lead to disaster . |
| 6 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 7 | Did you see that one advertising triple glazing at the same time as his double would you believe ? |
| 8 | Classes help the actor to gain confidence in dealing with many things happening at the same time , and this is an important part of student work . |
| 9 | Edward Blishen , the presenter , has an enviable gift for sketching in background and perspective , drawing up different strands of what was happening at the same time to make his argument , all with ease . |
| 10 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |
| 11 | Yeah well this is , th this is it I mean th th there are often a lot of things happening at the same time er er some of which as you just sort of hinted at are sort of er erm of a psychological er er have a psychological factor in them which all add to it do n't they ? |
| 12 | I originally had this idea through the workers union in Manchester , and I was wondering if there were any comparative studies that were happening at the same time , and that would be really interesting to see how Oxford compares to other areas . |
| 13 | The black eyes were pouring through her , amused and oddly smouldering at the same time . |
| 14 | How often do you meet and how many people there , you 're showing interest but you 're also qualifying at the same time and it 's not padding , it 's actually useful information because you 're thinking well that 's worth pursuing the R N I , yes but there 's money there . |
| 15 | The flames did help to disperse the fog and also to make the runway more visible , but of course one air field could n't hope to cope with all the 8 Group heavies returning at the same time , and things were pretty chaotic for a few hours . |
| 16 | Belinda listened on tenterhooks to one side of the discussion as Tom somehow managed to present his case forcefully while driving at the same time . |
| 17 | Somehow her own anger and his frustration together turned into a mutual all-embracing passion , and they clung together , hating and loving at the same time . |
| 18 | He had a calculator to help , but tried to keep his temper , his blood this side of boiling point and a little , at least , of social grace by listening at the same time to a Schubert piano sonata on a portable radio alongside . |
| 19 | Nails was laughing and shivering at the same time , so excited that he felt almost ill with it . |
| 20 | I struggled to keep my love pure , remembering at the same time something Madeleine had told me and that Rena was to repeat : ‘ What you need , Jimi , is the love of a bad woman . ’ |
| 21 | And again that 's looking at the same time in nineteen seventy se seventy seven , seventy eight time , it 's looking back into that er er driveway , and if you can remember the sort of the Victorian or Edwardian er photograph that er I showed you before , of er virtually that er that view . |
| 22 | In this way , all her eggs begin developing at the same time . |
| 23 | This is her first season with Senior League side Portadown and she has already established a regular place on the firsts , developing at the same time into one of the most promising players in the country . |
| 24 | On June 6 he told delegates at a seminar on promoting private investment that multipartyism would be established " in the near future " , warning at the same time that current conditions , notably the illiteracy rate of over 70 per cent , were " not adequate to meet the challenge of multipartyism " . |
| 25 | Alcohol and other drugs have direct sedative and stimulant effects on the brain , both acting at the same time but over different periods of time . |
| 26 | mass forms of musical practice which are based on the musical activity of many people interacting at the same time and in the same way — forms which structure bodily movements and processes , and which enable bodily experience to become an aesthetically mediated pleasure ( ibid : 228 ) . |
| 27 | Although Attlee and Greenwood were ready to accept the invitation , they did not do so at once but made sure that both the National Executive and the annual Conference , which were conveniently meeting at the same time , it being the Whit weekend , were fully consulted and in agreement with their acceptance of office . |
| 28 | Last time er it was er free distribution , so they needed someone to , workers for that and Sikh temple offered their services and er , I think they did the job very well because mostly we get a lot of volunteers round and er , many times I went their there was quite a big queue , er five or six people were serving at the same time . |
| 29 | Writing at the same time as Russell appealed to President Wilson , MacDonald insisted that it was disarmament , democracy and international socialism that provided the key to stable peace : ‘ Then we shall want no League of Nations to Enforce Peace , with its dangers and surrenders to militarism . ’ |
| 30 | But on 5 January , ‘ after much & very painful hesitation ’ , he sent the money back , expressing at the same time ‘ no ordinary feelings of esteem and affection ’ for his benefactors . |