Example sentences of "at the same time [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her husband admired her serious-mindedness , and at the same time saw that her absence of humour held comic promise for his act . |
| 2 | He felt a sense of guilt but at the same time knew he could never have spoken to her anyway . |
| 3 | How could she produce anything that bore the stamp of continuity and at the same time managed to be fresh and original ? |
| 4 | He had introduced her to physical passion , and at the same time ignited a fire in his own sensual , earthy Taurean nature that had proved impossible to quench . |
| 5 | Chris Bird , exploration team leader of the Atlantic Frontier Programme said : ‘ The success of the survey has accelerated the whole ‘ 204 ’ exploration and appraisal programme and at the same time enabled us to obtain additional data on the area . ’ |
| 6 | The CNAA at the same time agreed a ‘ reciprocal transfer ’ of credit with the Open University , and related to , and negotiated with , a variety of other bodies in higher education . |
| 7 | However much both sectors might underline their commitment to high-quality education for students and other values of higher education as a whole , the struggle to define and remove boundaries at the same time led to uncertainty and ambiguity , tension and even ‘ ill-will ’ between the sectors . |
| 8 | And cultural modernism , in challenging such identity , at the same time challenged the very structure of the German state . |
| 9 | The word was said with such vehemence , yet at the same time sounded so funny , that he almost laughed . |
| 10 | The same paternalistic attitude probably emanated from some of the more indigenous landed gentry of the district , who at the same time harboured misgivings over the flood of workers into the quiet township . |
| 11 | On that instant she put down her comb , and turned her back on her dressing-table mirror — and at the same time rejected any notion that she felt in any way excited . |
| 12 | The Yugo ( nee Zastava ) , built in Yugoslavia , managed to escape the Iron Curtain car jokes but at the same time escaped , completely , the attention of press and public . |
| 13 | The granite pillars and gendarmes kept the sun from warming us , but at the same time emphasised the tenuous nature of the couloir . |
| 14 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 15 | The orchestra , extremely democratically-run and independent-minded , was bruised , strained and a little anxious about its standards after clashes with the great maestro , who at the same time had spent less and less time with it . |
| 16 | Already during the uncanny calm of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the winter of 1939–40 , Hitler had hinted at a successful end to the conflict during 1940 , and at the same time had further blamed England and France for deliberately prolonging the war through their influence on previously neutral countries . |
| 17 | Their manager , standing in the wings , wondered what Arthur was yakking about , and at the same time had a moment of seeing them as Gandhi carrying a buffalo . |
| 18 | No one retained a broadcasting role and at the same time enjoyed a good salary . |
| 19 | It felt it could not oppose the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty brokered by the United States in March 1979 , but at the same time viewed it with ambivalence . |
| 20 | Yet to a very large extent German efforts were contradictory : Völkisch opinion wished Germany to remain as it was and yet somehow to return to the past ; they wanted to return to the past yet at the same time wished for the power to behave as they pleased . |
| 21 | Cabrera 's possible detection of a monopole last year aroused a great deal of excitement , but at the same time raised the question of why he had succeeded , where the many other experimental searches had failed . |
| 22 | PAISLEY Chief Office staff shed several pounds during a sponsored slim — but at the same time raised many more for the town 's Accord Hospice . |
| 23 | On Oct. 13 the National Bank of Ethiopia — the central bank — raised interest rates ; the government at the same time raised government workers ' wages , for the first time since the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974 , by up to 110 per cent . |
| 24 | Feeling somehow challenged , Rory sent him one of her teasing , provocative smiles , but at the same time experienced a strange surge of protectiveness . |
| 25 | The teacher thus : added to the information she already had became aware of a different information source learned how to use that source used the source to present information in a different way and the class : also became aware of the information source responded actively to the on-screen presentation of statistical material could all use the material at the same time manipulated the material easily , moving to and from different parts of the database as they thought appropriate to support their arguments The viewdata presentation therefore : allowed ease of display and manipulation of information in a way in which a chalkboard , flip chart or handout could not and became a kind of electronic chalkboard provided a catalyst for discussion of subject matter related easily the subject matter to the students ' own geographical and social environment encouraged the development of oral discussion based on evidence inferred from information rather than expressed , but unsupported , opinion |
| 26 | Pressure from the STUC and the Scottish Labour Party over the 1960s had helped to channel considerable regional aid to Scotland , which partly reversed the country 's relative economic decline ( Begg and Lythe , 1977 ) but did not eliminate high unemployment , and at the same time brought recognition of a ‘ Scottish dimension ’ to economic policy . |
| 27 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 28 | For many British people of my generation , the sight of great ships sailing for a remote theatre of action , their rails lined with cheering soldiers , at once evoked echoes of convoys leaving for Africa or the Far East , yet at the same time produced surprise at the media coverage and the openness with which these preparatory stages , and indeed the later fighting , appeared to be reported . |
| 29 | It is at the same time stressed , however , that it is not the " true function of literature " to engage with the contemporary " social problem " . |
| 30 | Israeli officials , while offering a more rapid review of the deportation cases , at the same time stressed that the ultimate decision on when the Palestinians would be repatriated from Lebanon was not up to the government but to courts . |