Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the same time " in BNC.

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31 I was having Rob and Jen at the same time , and I used to get very wrapped up in myself when I was pregnant , you know — just not interested in things like sisters-in-law .
32 You do n't lose the use of your PC 's printer port because it 's duplicated on the back of the tape unit , though obviously you ca n't use both printer and tape at the same time .
33 Cocaine is so inexpensive that most heroin injectors like to have both drugs in the mix at the same time .
34 It is impossible to experience both fear and peace of mind at the same time .
35 Immacolata said it glowed prettily , the light was flattering , and this recollection passed across his mind at the same time as he registered the woman 's contorted face , her blotched cheeks and veined eyes , and began to hear what she was saying :
36 How many responsibilities of a disparate nature did I have to hold in my mind at the same time ?
37 If a letter is very good and the applicant clearly fits the job/ personnel specification fairly well you may wish to send out an appointment for an interview at the same time as the application form .
38 Andre had fallen in with the legendary Lafons of Meursault — Dominique Lafon was at college at the same time , and Lafon pere had become something of a mentor .
39 Whatever you do , do n't press both sides of the neck at the same time : you could diminish the flow of blood to the head , or even cut it off .
40 But she put it up here , I think probably to make it easier , I mean if anyone 's had , I do n't know if anyone had children in the seventies when it was the fashion to wear very long skirts , or even as I find going up and down stairs in my nightie , you 're more than likely to fall and break a leg and the baby 's neck at the same time , if you wear a long skirt .
41 You can use several Pump Wagons together , or advance them with chariots or big monsters , but their random move means you ca n't rely on them to hit the enemy at the same time .
42 So Iran continues to uphold the territorial integrity of its old enemy at the same time as bombing it .
43 It sold at a high enough price per pound to cover the cost of carrying it across the Atlantic , and Jamestown enjoyed a tobacco boom , though the increase in exports from 20,000 lb. in 1617 to 350,000 lb. in 1621 was not enough to enable the Company to show a profit , because the ( wholesale , pre-duty ) price fell from four or five shillings a pound to a shilling a pound at the same time .
44 With regard to the War Department , I quite agree with Panmure , that the best course will be to lodge that Department in an unpretending but suitable manner in Pall Mall , and to carry that arrangement into effect at the same time that a Foreign and Colonial Office are building in Downing and Fludyer Street .
45 Section I of the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 came into effect at the same time .
46 The new Business Rate , also known as the National Non-Domestic Rate ( NNDR ) , will come into effect at the same time as the Community Charge/Poll Tax on 1st April 1990. this leaflet is intended to outline the changes that are being made to the rating system and show how these changes will affect businesses in Oxford .
47 Reced er the precedent for the situation that we are in now , yes indeed there is one and it was when er the Labour government was last in power in nineteen seventy eight , when we had er er er to er set up the European constituencies we had a limited time to do it in and all the countries in Europe had to agree to bring forward the same kind of agreement and put it into effect at the same time .
48 On the other hand it must be remembered that a more rapid turnover of light industry ( production of essential articles ) permits its capital also to be used to build up heavy industry , whilst developing light industry at the same time .
49 It would have boosted investment in the industry at the same time .
50 But — in common with many workers in manufacturing industry at the same time — none of the survivors I spoke to ever remembers having handled the end-product of her work , in this case the completed book .
51 how can a thigh bone erm be strong and light at the same time ? , not in the bloody
52 how can the thigh bone yeah be strong and light at the same time cos it 's hollow
53 If he does n't abstain , however , he must use this vote at the same time as everyone else .
54 It is likely to attract criticism from members on the grounds that it exploits the plight of the unemployed by using them as cheap labour at the same time as removing them from the unemployment statistics .
55 Referring to Lord Prosser 's judgment and what it would mean , Mrs Smith gave an example of two women in labour at the same time .
56 So I was probably enjoying British progressive rock at the same time I was listening to American jazz . ’
57 It was difficult while they were actually in the centre , of course , but she made sure she did n't go for coffee or to the staff canteen at the same time as him and she 'd avoided the social club completely .
58 Kibbutzim children too are reported to have no difficulty in relative to more than one parental figure at the same time ( Pringle , 1972 )
59 In ( 135 ) , although make would have been possible , the writer has chosen cause , and has thus felt it to be more appropriate to represent the subject of the verb ( " raising the temperature of a compound " ) as an external condition which sets off a reaction of decomposition in compounds rather than as an agent which exerts its causative action at the same time as the reaction occurs .
60 The victim , of course , is permitted to seek rehabilitation through damages in a civil action at the same time as the libeller faces retribution in the criminal courts .
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