Example sentences of "is at the same time [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand .
2 ( 2 ) The post-modern culture which these social classes consume ( e.g. in architecture and painting ) is at the same time middle-brow culture ( art moyen ) and an avant-garde challenge to orthodox modernism .
3 But , more specifically still , he saw fascist mentality as ‘ the mentality of the little man who is enslaved and craves authority and is at the same time rebellious . ’
4 The humanoid vigour of man-made things , as suggested by these metaphors , is at the same time ungainly and unnatural .
5 Through the use of these negatives ( engineering and maths ) , we can see students ' construction of an identity as ‘ physicist ’ : a person who is not too remote from reality , but who is at the same time capable of independent and abstract thought — a point we shall return to in Chapter 6 .
6 The term economic hides the fundamental point that economic change is at the same time social change .
7 In the individual 's mental life someone else is invariably involved , as a model , as an object , as a helper , as an opponent ; and so from the very first individual psychology , in this extended but entirely justifiable sense of the words , is at the same time social psychology as well .
8 Each document is at the same time unique and existing in a thousand places .
9 Alcoves like this can also be treated like separate small rooms and lined with mirror ; or with the curtain or shade fabric ; or painted or papered in a colour from the room scheme which is at the same time different from the main walls .
10 The opening phrase " The poor young man is significant in this respect : since it can hardly be treated as Pemberton 's own self-pitying assessment of himself , it must be taken as the author 's narrative voice ; and thus establishes , from the beginning , a relation between the author and the main character which is at the same time sympathetic and distanced .
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