Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] at the same time " in BNC.

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1 Thrilled to the core by his admission that she disturbed and aroused him , she was at the same time terrified .
2 What White and Bernard also omit to make clear is that , while the great majority of the ordinary members of the church may well have been largely indifferent to theological issues , many of them were at the same time both outraged and alarmed by a number of alien liturgical practices , which were a unique and highly visible feature of English Arminianism .
3 It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default .
4 ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’
5 The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices .
6 While JCI diversified its interests in South Africa , it was at the same time increasing its shareholding in Johnson Matthey in the UK .
7 He was at the same time very simple and very noble .
8 A staunch Methodist with an evangelical conviction that film exists to serve the Lord , he was at the same time the head of the family flour-milling business and imbued with a Yorkshire respect for ‘ brass ’ and profitability .
9 It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall .
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