Example sentences of "[pron] be at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidently in positing a given object as an ontological individual I am at the same time committed to accepting that contextually there must be certain criteria whereby such an individual can be meaningfully referred to as numerically the same . |
| 2 | As we have defined it , the category of semantic indicator overlaps with that of semantic tally , impure tallies being those which are at the same time indicators ( full or partial ) ; it includes that of semantic categoriser — a categoriser is necessarily a full indicator . |
| 3 | It is a means by which a relationship may be maintained with objects which are at the same time always potentially alienable . |
| 4 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |
| 5 | Professor Mark Roberts , speaking from the centre of the critical consensus , declared : ‘ It does n't issue from an understanding of reality which is not to be denied , it is not moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être . ’ |
| 6 | It should be clear by this time that if there is one critical statement entirely and absolutely wrong , it is the one quoted at the start of this chapter , about The Lord of the Rings not being ‘ moulded by some controlling vision of things which is at the same time its raison d'être' . |
| 7 | The earlier of the two identifies the poet with his poetry , praying that after his death he should be forgotten : Sonnet 74 draws a different line , separating the Poet from his work : The point to be stressed at this juncture — forgive the interruption ! — is the turning of the other into the self and of the self into poetry , which is at the same time the turning of life into art and of transience into immortality : This marvellous poem can be linked , no doubt , to the series attacking time and proclaiming the certainty of the poet 's survival . |
| 8 | The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced . |
| 9 | It is this version of the relationship between adult education and the women 's movement which is at the same time the most challenging and the most precarious . |
| 10 | Alcoves like this can also be treated like separate small rooms and lined with mirror ; or with the curtain or shade fabric ; or painted or papered in a colour from the room scheme which is at the same time different from the main walls . |
| 11 | Design as a complex , multi-dimensional activity achieves through forming at once a mode of knowing the world which is at the same time also a mode of acting in the world . |
| 12 | From this perspective , electoral politics were only one aspect of the struggle , and the parliamentary leaders were considered subordinate to the leadership of the mass party , which was at the same time the leadership of the class itself Conservative and liberal parties , however much they in fact represented class interests , saw themselves as parties functioning within an established social order and a system of political institutions in which parliament was supreme . |
| 13 | I know it happens in individual subjects and there 's the element of repetition but , you are at the same time making them reflect over a certain period and say I have not entirely wasted my time , there maybe some youngsters for whom it will be extremely difficult , and I except that but my thinking is that is you look hard enough you can find something that everybody has done at whatever level that they can take some pride in . |
| 14 | providing you 're at the same time . |
| 15 | Moody , sensitive and sometimes secretive she is at the same time a little girl needing to be cuddled and a teenager requiring her own space . |
| 16 | Davie himself provides the example of a dedicated university teacher , who is at the same time a fine poet , a practitioner of rigorously evaluative criticism , and a judicious reviewer . |
| 17 | Then she was like one of those seers who is at the same time a strange animal , like a priestess in a bear 's cave . |
| 18 | Through the use of these negatives ( engineering and maths ) , we can see students ' construction of an identity as ‘ physicist ’ : a person who is not too remote from reality , but who is at the same time capable of independent and abstract thought — a point we shall return to in Chapter 6 . |
| 19 | Thrilled to the core by his admission that she disturbed and aroused him , she was at the same time terrified . |
| 20 | Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate . |
| 21 | He was a straightforward patriot , and , most of all , a man of action , who was at the same time a man of natural sensitivity towards suffering . |
| 22 | Yet we are at the same time perturbed by more recent and present-day developments . |
| 23 | To sum up , in positing an item as an ontological existent we are at the same time by implication positing this item as a potential subject of a non-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates , and hence as completely determinate with regard to possible descriptions that may be given of it at any given time . |
| 24 | ‘ And here we are at the same time of year — well , they tell us it 's the same time of year , ’ he said , sarcastically , ‘ — and what we 're expected to eat are knobbly things actually grown in dirt ! |
| 25 | She said , any time at all if we 're at the same time . |
| 26 | In Britain , for example , there is at the present time a vigorous controversy about the introduction of proportional representation , stoutly resisted by the two main parties , but supported by a growing part of the population who have become increasingly dissatisfied with the existing system , which produces a gross discrepancy between the votes cast for various parties and their representation in parliament , and results in practice in a form of minority government . |
| 27 | There is at the present time a park and ride facility on the south western side of York er on the er Tadcaster Road and er another one is being proposed on the eastern side at Grimston Bar adjacent to the A sixty f Excuse me , A sixty four trunk road . |
| 28 | There was at the same time a dramatic decline in the amount of milk produced by urban cattle-keepers and supplied by road . |
| 29 | The occupation forces in the territory of defeated enemies might be seen as temporary inconveniences , but there was at the same time a natural tendency to acquire overseas bases from which to extend the reach of America 's armed forces . |
| 30 | Many institutions of less than 150 , either free standing or in collaboration with others , have offered and will continue to offer a range of courses well matched to the needs of the student population as they are at the present time . |