Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 2 | There are insult-words for women who have too much sex ( slag ) and women who have too little ( pricktease ) ; women can be tasty and at the same time cunts . |
| 3 | It must be tight-fitting but at the same time easy to remove , for as the caterpillars grow they will consume enormous amounts of nettles . |
| 4 | They 're Italian , they 're 25 years old but at the same time brand new … |
| 5 | Why give out the message that certain sexual activities are risky whilst at the same time conveniently ignoring the real needs of lesbians ? |
| 6 | The change effected by Gandhi by the use of satyāgraha , however , makes his principle more explicit and at the same time links it more closely with his concept of Truth ( Satya ) , and non-violence ( ahi sā ) . |
| 7 | Yet while it may not be possible , in a given case , to come to a clear decision one way or the other , it can not , I shall argue , be coherently assumed that a decision is logically impossible and at the same time insisted that the object in question exists in an ontological sense . |
| 8 | It had become less simple and at the same time less complicated than that . |
| 9 | Port books have been neglected in the past as a source for internal trade in the proto-industrial period because of the nature of the source — it is vast and at the same time problematic . |
| 10 | Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society . |
| 11 | These problems demand intensive treatment — moisturising and nourishing but at the same time non-oily . |
| 12 | I remember Shostakovich was so nervous but at the same time so impressed . |
| 13 | Our brief was to board and rummage as many of these foreign vessels as possible and at the same time carry out checks on the British boats to control any possible lead in duty free stores . |
| 14 | She had seen nothing of them and heard nothing except their horn in the recesses of the forest , a joyous and at the same time a melancholy sound which filled her captors with unease . |
| 15 | As she lay in the heat , she felt drowsy and at the same time tinglingly alive . |
| 16 | gold is virtually indestructible and at the same time is recognisable to most people ; |
| 17 | Yet it is inevitable that at the present time of confusion and reform we ask why we should be dependent upon these two great blocks of examinations , at these two particular points in a student 's school career . |
| 18 | Mozart , knowing that his father would be devastated by the news , sought to prepare him as gently as possible for it by writing to him that she was gravely ill and at the same time writing to their close friend , Bullinger , telling him the whole story , in the hope that Bullinger could support and comfort his father and sister when he finally broke the news to them , which he was intending to do in a second letter to his father . |
| 19 | It is perhaps because they are both unique and at the same time a faithful continuation of ancestral traditions that oriental rugs are objects of allure and fascination for the West . |
| 20 | The ethical " problem " arises from the fact that Ethics is for us inevitable and at the same time impossible . |
| 21 | Lesley Faragher is Britain 's top lady rodeo star yet is decidedly feminine , quiet , petite and at the same time of writing possesses the warm glow as an expectant mother . |
| 22 | Crouching below the plain embattled tower these ancient cottages , built with traditional rubble walling stone and roofing tiles , gave the old grey town a natural but at the same time haphazard unit . |
| 23 | ‘ Playing at the end of the field , being in contention , keeping myself relaxed but at the same time getting the adrenalin running , ’ explained Faldo . |
| 24 | The structure shown in the drawing is stable but at the same time it is vulnerable . |
| 25 | Liar , I thought , and so feeling a trifle low but at the same time in his debt . |
| 26 | Firstly , when we were first discussing the sale , the market was somewhat more buoyant than at the present time . |
| 27 | To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game . |
| 28 | Things which are ‘ unclassified and unnamed are alien , non-existent and at the same time threatening ’ ( p. 30 ) , and anchoring is the mechanism for reducing this threat by imposing familiar classifications . |
| 29 | How can paintings which are at once great and at the same time repellent earn their creator such a disproportionately large sum of money ? |
| 30 | Since then only a few have carried the flame in Europe and India , but recently the worldwide growth of homœopathy has started to look again at the LM potencies which Hahnemann describes , in a footnote to 270 as being ‘ the most powerful and at the same time mildest in action i.e. as the most perfected . ’ |