Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we can say , though , is that the picture which emerges from these is not of a monolithic bloc but of a constantly mutating organism made up of elements which are symbiotic and mutually contradictory at the same time ( see , for example , Sanjek 1988 ; Hirsch 1969 ; Peterson and Berger 1971 ; Hardy n.d. ; Frith 1978 ; 1983a ; 1988a ) . |
| 2 | This uncertainty is not so important at the present time , when things are far apart , so that a small uncertainty in position does not make much difference . |
| 3 | I give this portion of my estate as a thank-offering in the firm conviction that never again shall we have such a chance of giving our country that form of help which is so vital at the present time . |
| 4 | Why they were so good and why they were so bad at the same time . ’ |
| 5 | It is that a person who takes another 's car ‘ can escape liability to tougher sentences only if he or she can show , on the balance of probabilities , that either the aggravating event occurred before he or she committed [ the basic s. 12 offence ] , or that he or she was not present at the relevant time . ’ |
| 6 | M_N Media Not Available — the media item is not available at the present time ie. it is in a locked cabinet , inaccessible to the operator . |
| 7 | unfortunately it 's not available at the present time . |
| 8 | ‘ Michael Gambon is a fine enough actor to convey that charisma while being utterly ruthless at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | As in the case of true ESSs , it is possible for more than one strategy to be collectively stable at the same time . |
| 10 | Perhaps peter Fuller 's Theoria ( 1988 ) , a call for a return to earnest Ruskinian values by a critic who had lost his faith in Modernism , contrives to be theoretical and distinctively British at the same time ; but that is the work of an art critic . |
| 11 | I asked , fiery with embarrassment , and yet intensely curious at the same time . |
| 12 | The signature must be made or acknowledged by the testator in the presence of two or more witnesses , both present at the same time . |
| 13 | He thought with pleasure of his sister 's elegant face with the skin that always had a gleam and yet was softly , darkly creamy at the same time . |
| 14 | ‘ But it was really fun at the same time . |
| 15 | It would be particularly appropriate at the present time to pay more attention to this aspect , and to obtain better information about crofters ' levels of living , including the subsistence component and remittances from emigrants . |
| 16 | ‘ This connection is particularly important at the current time when we know the numbers of women on low income has doubled in the last decade . ’ |
| 17 | Examination of the role and reality of informal care within the community care network is thus particularly pertinent at the present time , and represents an important illustration of the interdependence of research and practice . |
| 18 | The despair in the air was particularly dense at the present time , though its monetarist perpetrators were now fighting a rearguard action against the rest of Europe . |
| 19 | Christie 's might occasionally be blamed for ‘ too many notes ’ at least with regard to minor lots ( see lot 18 in the present sale ) but their catalogues are undoubtedly superior at the present time . |
| 20 | Of course during the er during the course of this year we will be considering prototypes which will enable those young people to reach that high level of qualification but he will be aware that under the national training and education target there are some of those targets which are directly related to the points that he has raised and the important priority for this government is to ensure not only that we have young people training to an even higher level but through programmes like investors in people , that we encourage every member of the work force and those er who are primarily unemployed at the present time , to train to even higher levels of qualifications . |
| 21 | The reason they were picked ( aside from those who are here by right of birth ) is that a small portion of their total brain power was visibly alight at the right time and in the right place . |
| 22 | But also , and for architects of this period more importantly , the silhouette created by the plan had the advantage of being symmetrical and romantically complex at the same time . ’ |
| 23 | Do not throw energy out of the windows — How unEnglish the phrasing was ; logical yet fanciful at the same time . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm not sure if I can wait the length of time it will take — but since you seem to believe that you can … ’ he added in an ironic mutter , and shrugged , the gesture oddly dismissive and yet decisive at the same time . |
| 25 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 26 | When the time comes for expansion , new houses can be added either to work alongside present flocks , i.e. added at the same time as existing houses , or slotted in-between , to give a more even flow . |
| 27 | In her anxiety not to ‘ assist ’ the nationalistic bourgeoisie of Poland , Rosa Luxemburg , by her denial of the right of secession in the programme of the Russian Marxists is , in fact , assisting the Great Russian Black Hundreds ( extreme Right ) ; she is in fact assisting … the nationalism of the Great Russians … the most formidable at the present time : it is precisely the one that is less bourgeois and more feudal , and it is precisely the one that acts as the principal brake on democracy and the proletarian struggle . |
| 28 | It is clear in talking to Walter , as he nears the end of his career , that while he has greatly enjoyed his job working with students , he is saddened by the fact that prospects for young people are not very promising at the present time . |
| 29 | She 's very tough and very sweet at the same time . |