Example sentences of "but [adv] at the same " in BNC.

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1 This deeper controversy sustains the debate between liberal interpretations of the modern law of contract , but paradoxically at the same time demonstrates its pointlessness .
2 Michael Lynagh is still rattling along towards the four-figure mark but not at the same rate .
3 But somehow at the same time I am washing myself — I 'm trying to get the filth off myself .
4 The other main formulation is the rule of acting in such a way that you treat humanity , whether in your own person or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end .
5 We ought , he said , to ‘ treat humanity whether in your own person , or in the person of any other , never simply as a means , but always at the same time as an end ’ ( Kant , 1948 , para. 429 ) .
6 At its best such a book will not only provide a satisfying solution to the murder puzzle which it still must have , but also at the same time the solution of the mystery should reveal finally what it was the novel had to say .
7 Or something perhaps … moving through space forwards but back at the same time , as if I consisted of anti-matter for ever cancelled out … as if in all our words and gestures , acts and attitudes we effected some sort of parallel penetration into whatever had originated them , their primeval atom , with built-in unstableness. ( 107–108/303–4 )
8 I base this theory on having seen the fish both distressed and inflated , but never at the same time .
9 I 've had tons of guitars , but never at the same time — I never had enough money to have them all at once . ’
10 Sometimes Matthew or Luke depart from Mark 's order of events but never at the same time together and they always return to it .
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