Example sentences of "at [adv] the same time " in BNC.
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| 1 | At much the same time , however , workers on British Rail successfully defended their procedures in the courts and subsequently went on to conduct a very effective strike from which they emerged victorious . |
| 2 | Within a few years of this last attempt by an emperor to rally the Roman empire to paganism , a Greek bishop could speak of Julian 's pagan revival as a misguided attempt to introduce ‘ novelties ’ in place of the traditional religion ; but at much the same time in the West , Christians were still regarded as outside the mainstream of respectable upper-class culture , as the foolish minority who rejected the wise and hallowed traditions of their forefathers which had made Rome great . |
| 3 | Karajan 's return to music-making and recording in 1946–7 was brought about with the help of Legge and , at much the same time , the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata , another man totally given over to music but whom the whirligig of public opinion had rightly exonerated despite extensive war work in both Italy and Germany in front of audiences of all manner of political persuasions . |
| 4 | The king had himself portrayed on the last coinage of his reign , issued c. 1485 , wearing the closed crown of the emperor , at much the same time as Henry VII introduced the style into England ; but James went one better by having himself shown in a realistic three-quarters face portrait , thereby producing what the numismatist Ian Stewart has described as ‘ probably the earliest Renaissance coin portrait outside Italy ’ . |
| 5 | At much the same time the Ryder Cup was also being knocked from the United States ' grasp . |
| 6 | It says nothing about privatization or individual ‘ packages of care ’ , unlike the Community Care legislation which was passing through parliament at much the same time . |
| 7 | A flood of consumer legislation passed at much the same time included the Trade Descriptions Act 1968 , the fair Trading Act 1973 , the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 and the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 . |
| 8 | But in manuscript B of ‘ The Hunt for the Ring ’ ( written at much the same time ) just this idea is being entertained . |
| 9 | At much the same time , George Cowley was being treated to a very fine Malt whisky by Peter Hogan , in Hogan 's elegantly furnished office , in the heart of Whitehall . |
| 10 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 11 | In truth what really shaped his view was the comparison between Mayo 's film and Fury , which was released by MGM at much the same time . |
| 12 | Thus rapidly , and with support on all sides , did Co-operation become accepted as a means of doing business , and at much the same time as did the joint stock company in essentially its modern form . |
| 13 | In simple co-operative work , the Art Department can plan to examine particular patterns and structures at much the same time as the Science Department looks at crystals and lattices ; the Geography Department can look at climatology and weather charting at the same time as the Mathematics Department studies or revises graphs . |
| 14 | Mountaineering in the Pyrenees began , early in the nineteenth century , with the very practical ascents made by the mappers and surveyors , but it continued , in climbers such as Russell , with something of the flair and eccentricity with which it was also evolving at much the same time in the Alps . |
| 15 | At much the same time , positivism came under a powerful and sustained political and theoretical critique associated with the ‘ Justice Model ’ . |
| 16 | Curiously , this branch of crime fiction appears to have sprung up independently on either side of the Atlantic at much the same time . |
| 17 | He did n't have long to wait because Newley was a man of habit and arrived at the office at much the same time , day after day . |
| 18 | The earliest excavations , however , in 1948–9 at Ivel House , supplemented by observation of local service trenches , revealed surprisingly complex occupation including buildings with opus signinum and mosaic floors , at much the same time as Stevens argued for its status as a late civitas centre . |
| 19 | At much the same time ( c.1053-4 ) , a monk of St Wandrille was similarly including in his Inuentio et Miracula Sancti Vulfranni an account of how Edward and Alfred took refuge in the Norman court , were welcomed by Richard II , and treated as his sons . |
| 20 | In Spain , what Henry Kamen has called the ‘ series of autos de fe which burnt out Protestantism ’ began at Valladolid in May 1559 , while in France , at exactly the same time , persecution of the Calvinists so much increased that Calvin 's greatest follower , Theodore Beza , began to question Calvin 's insistence on non-resistance to authority . |
| 21 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 22 | Others see it occurring at exactly the same time each day , but with no obvious connection with any other activity . |
| 23 | Of course , the actual truth is that there 's different levels in everything , and while some of the worst Hawaiian records were released in the '40s and '50s , some of the greatest Hawaiian records were made at exactly the same time . |
| 24 | At exactly the same time that the ‘ shake-out ’ was happening — the early 1960s — the largest expansion of evening titles since the 1890s was under way . |
| 25 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 26 | These were radical claims to make , not least because there was developing at exactly the same time a theory of absolute , unlimited sovereignty which became the intellectual basis for the absolutism which was the dominant pattern of rule in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , and in some countries , such as Russia and Austria , even lasted into the twentieth century . |
| 27 | The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons . |
| 28 | It was something of a coincidence that we wrote to each other at exactly the same time , albeit on different issues . |
| 29 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 30 | it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences . |