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

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1 Irony is at the same time a characteristic form of the contemporary imagination and a way of thinking the specific forms of engagement which the distractions of the everyday and the interruptions of its temporality might facilitate in television viewing .
2 It might be worth recalling Walter Benjamin 's view that there is always a verso and recto to history — each document of civilisation is at the same time a document of barbarism .
3 We feel that , for an Englishman , to ask this question is at the same time to answer it .
4 It is worth noting too that it can arise in different types of trust , either in a simple trust for restitution , for instance on death ; or in a continuing trust such as the fideicommissa familiae relicta discussed in Chapter IV , in which each successive beneficiary is at the same time a trustee for other family members .
5 The Kingdom is at the same time a heavenly as well as an earthly reality .
6 " But first , ladies and gentlemen , you should know that Dr McNab holds the discredited belief that you catch cholera by drinking … more precisely , that in cholera the morbific matter is taken into the alimentary canal causing diarrhoea , that the poison is at the same time reproduced in the intestines and passes out with the discharges , and that by these so-called " rice-water " discharges becoming mingled with the drinking water of others the disease is communicated from one person to another continually multiplying itself as it goes .
7 To turn away from reality is at the same time to withdraw from the community of man .
8 The term economic hides the fundamental point that economic change is at the same time social change .
9 Each document is at the same time unique and existing in a thousand places .
10 The West German system is at the same time a plurality or " first-past.the-post " system , a list system and an additional member system : in short a mixed system , which may be conveniently designated in the following pages by the initials WGMS .
11 This is a zero-sum game ( particularly in the United States ) in that each occurrence of technical upgrading of a TNC plant in a developing country is at the same time proudly announced for host-country consumption by the TNC , and seized upon in the home country as evidence of job destruction .
12 This sort of copy is at the same time description and interpretation , the salient points being brought out by the copyist , who gains greater understanding of a masterpiece by his work .
13 Reference has already been made ( p. 67 ) to the pattern by which the sexual or marital partner is at the same time the " good parent " ; the " good parent " approves and supports .
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