Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been wrong to propose that subsidized admission to such schools should he offered to very bright pupils , at the same time that comprehension was being commended ( sometimes forcefully so ) to grammar schools . |
| 2 | China , if the one-child policy continues to be pursued successfully at the same time that life expectancy is being extended , looks set for an extraordinarily rapid transition to being the oldest society ever known — an apparently unforeseen consequence of her birth-rate policy , according to work being carried out by James Smith and Peter Laslett at the Rank Xerox Unit for the Study of Ageing , University of Cambridge . |
| 3 | In a way , the three of them were like moles , digging their way to the surface looking for freedom , coincidentally at the same time that counter-culture was doing the same and searching for heroes . |
| 4 | For the NMDA channel to open , and thus to trigger the induction of LTP , it is necessary for two events to occur simultaneously : the membrane must be sufficiently depolarized to expel Mg 2+ from NMDA channels at the same time that L-glutamate has , by binding to NMDA receptors , promoted their opening . |
| 5 | But at the same time that emptiness in her heart still haunted her , that emptiness that only Jake could fill . |
| 6 | There 's also talk that an outlaw called Ninjaman was killed by police at the same time that DJ Ninjaman ( no relation ) was visiting the copshop to pay a minor fine . |
| 7 | Good morning Vincent , I 'm enclosing copies of faxes received this morning from New Zealand , and certainly the rate quoted is more realistic , then drop down a line and put eighteen by two point nine five pounds , oblique kilo , equals fifty three pounds , ten pence , next line documentation , twenty pounds , next line customs clearance etcetera , thirteen New Zealand dollars , I 'd say Irish pounds , three point three , O , O equals nine pounds approximately and total it up , eighty two pounds , ten pence which is approximately a third less as you see David suggests you lean heavily on Air Lingus and point out at the same time that Challenge Seeds have no intention of paying this exorbitant rate , also what is a consolidation rate ? |
| 8 | In order to compare one year 's attendance with another , it is important to count at the same time each year . |
| 9 | The rains do not come at the same time each year and yet the guinea fowl always seem to know when the wet season is about to begin . |
| 10 | So the spring flowers which bloom at the same time each year , and the swifts and swallows which return so precisely to their nest sites , are clearly responding to a more dependable guide . |
| 11 | If the same dose and type of insulin are given at the same time each day and either the food intake or the amount of physical activity fluctuates to a significant degree , the consequences are going to be unacceptable hyperglycaemia or hypoglycaemia . |
| 12 | If fed at the same time each day the fish will quickly learn to recognise their owners as a source of food and rise to the surface to be fed . |
| 13 | At the same time each evening , some house plants , such as mimosa and the prayer plant , fold up their leaves for the night . |
| 14 | When you can use video as another classroom aid , when and how it suits the language programme you are teaching , you almost certainly wo n't want to use it in the same way at the same time each week . |
| 15 | 4.11 If it is essential that money be delivered to clients in their own homes , this must be sanctioned by the line manager and , where possible , should not be done at the same time each week . |
| 16 | Funding is where the Bank of England , if it wishes to reduce the money supply , issues more government bonds , but at the same time fewer Treasury bills . |
| 17 | At the same time this differentiation acts as agent of effective phrasing by tellingly setting off the two heterogeneous themes from one another provided the director is aware of Mozart 's signs and interprets them correctly with greater sharpness for the strokes . |
| 18 | Yet at the same time this doctrine leads to the altogether counterintuitive conclusion that there can be no such thing as style or that style is simply a part of content . |
| 19 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 20 | ‘ You can get us all at the same time this way . ’ |
| 21 | But at the same time this form of contact can seem to other policemen and women as skiving , as even one member of the public described it to the field-worker ( FN 17/12/87 ) , p. 6 ) , although such a caricature obscures the fact that the contact often has a more meaningful purpose . |
| 22 | At the same time this fact enormously complicates the task of the person immersed in another culture who seeks to interpret the Scripture ’ ( Kraft 1979:134 ) . |
| 23 | At the same time this trade was notoriously unstable . |
| 24 | At the same time this meaning is related to the ‘ real ’ world by virtue of the Formalist principle of defamiliarization . |
| 25 | But , at the same time this training must in no circumstances produce in them that destructive feeling of guilt , known as a ‘ guilt complex ’ . |
| 26 | Something which is called the best of and at the same time this barrier , so again be aware . |
| 27 | At the same time any talk of strong policies in Europe ran up against the belief that the continent was indefensible for the foreseeable future . |
| 28 | I heard myself say to him , though the different sections of my brain seemed to have slipped out of synch somehow , and I was aware of all sorts of different things at once , and time seemed to have slowed down and at the same time some part of my brain was racing , trying to come up with some logical explanation for what was going on that did n't involve calamity … and failing . |
| 29 | Although it had been a rest home for British Telecom , alterations were necessary to provide the ten individual bed sitting rooms and the Housekeepers flat , whilst at the same time some safety improvements were needed to meet the Fire Officer 's regulations . |
| 30 | At the same time some attempt was made to try to isolate those large hospitals which were really too deteriorated and poorly situated to continue . |