Example sentences of "was at the same " in BNC.

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1 By May 1989 inflation at over 8 per cent was at the same level as at the 1979 general election and unemployment , though falling , was higher than in 1979 .
2 According to the Confederation of British Industry , in 1980 when unemployment was at the same level as now , around 5% of firms were reporting skill shortages ; the equivalent figure in 1990 was around 25% .
3 However , reading his piece ( Market Place , July 112 ) I wonder if he was at the same Royal Show as I was .
4 He was at the same time very simple and very noble .
5 Marcus again smiled what Ludens saw as a mysterious complicit smile , as if Ludens were a talented tempter who was at the same time a fellow initiate .
6 So I began to sleep with men in order to discover myself , to see , through their unknown , hitherto unmet eyes , the self that I really was at the same time as the self that I really might be .
7 She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track .
8 They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built .
9 The previous generic name for many of them , Heros , was at the same time restricted to our old friend the Severum , so that can not be used .
10 Equally , St Paul 's , Shadwell , was at the same time looking for a £6 fee for each iron or lead coffin deposited within a brick-lined grave in the churchyard , though their most expensive intramural location commanded a charge of only £4 18s .
11 ‘ He 's a better prospect than Gazza was at the same age , ’ said McDermott after the 19-year-old tormented Cambridge .
12 The same critical and questioning attitude which was forming the new approach to the Bible was at the same time stimulating scientific study and experiment and discovering the regularities in the natural order — what were and commonly still are called ‘ the laws of nature ’ .
13 The family , for example , was at the same time tending to lose some of its authority and responsibilities .
14 A staunch Methodist with an evangelical conviction that film exists to serve the Lord , he was at the same time the head of the family flour-milling business and imbued with a Yorkshire respect for ‘ brass ’ and profitability .
15 In short , the office of collector of supply was at the same time highly desirable and extremely dangerous to political interests .
16 However , he claims demand for Windows NT is twice what Windows was at the same place in the roll-out schedule .
17 It was not going to be easy to get any other candidate , and it was at the same time impossible to let the seat go by default .
18 It was directed at an audience to which a man of lesser wit and native grace might have been tempted to talk down ( it has to be remembered that by this time Boulestin and his restaurant had already become almost legendary ) but this was a trap into which he was at the same time too subtle and too naturally courteous to fall .
19 You could put your hand up and ask questions , and you were n't all up at a level on him , he was at the same level as you , talking , and he knew all our abilities so he explained things more clearly to us .
20 Since this internegative was at the same stage as Yuricich 's dupe , two generations of film had been skipped to produce a higher quality shot in which the join is much harder to detect .
21 There was no longer any understanding that in making available advantages to private individuals the state was at the same time imposing a ‘ trust ’ that the business be conducted for the public good .
22 It arose because of my meeting George Wigg in the army , whom I had encountered when I was based at Southern Command headquarters and he was at the same headquarters as a Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of army education , where he had already established a reputation for ruthless eccentricity .
23 There was something about her mouth , calm and amused , that was at the same time enigmatic and debunking ; pretending and admitting the pretence .
24 ‘ Our legends say that it was at the same time as the great Ebony Throne of Ireland . ’
25 He was a straightforward patriot , and , most of all , a man of action , who was at the same time a man of natural sensitivity towards suffering .
26 There was at the same time a dramatic decline in the amount of milk produced by urban cattle-keepers and supplied by road .
27 First her challenge to the primacy of ‘ meaning ’ and support of ‘ cool ’ rather than ‘ expressive ’ aesthetic assumptions was at the same time an advocacy of the collapse of some sort of deep level of signified into the signifier .
28 The modernist and Nietzschean devastation of the idea of historical progress was at the same time a devastation of assumptions of order , authority , stability , consonance , and repose .
29 This ‘ explosion of the instincts ’ was at the same time an explosion of contingency into the world of order .
30 The repudiation of Hellenism in Jerusalem was certainly a reassertion of the faithfulness of the Jewish community to the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob , but it was at the same time the result of many individual choices .
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