Example sentences of "one and the same " in BNC.

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1 History was sex , French was sex , art was sex , the Bible , poetry , penfriends , games , music , everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but obviously not really sex , not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be at one and the same time — I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all .
2 For this faction , the term ‘ just war ’ has secular as well as religious appeal , an ambiguity which permits them to communicate their cause in direct fashion to left-wing British and right-wing American groups at one and the same time .
3 Their limbs , torsos and heads can make straight , angled or rounded lines , usually at one and the same time , according to the natural structure of the dancers ' bones and how they are activated by the muscles .
4 Les Noces practises the art of the general and the art of the particular at one and the same time .
5 In which case ‘ history ’ becomes a force to be resisted by readers who like literature , and who may also like history , but have never thought they were one and the same thing .
6 For them , the solution to the problem of pro-government bias is simple : the broadcasters should treat government and governing party as one and the same , and give it the same coverage as the main opposition party .
7 Douglas Jay observed that the later 1970s were a time of genuine recovery — ‘ one of the few examples of any Western governments in the seventies reducing both inflationary pressures and unemployment ’ at one and the same time .
8 Yet it managed to raise prices and to add to inflation at one and the same time .
9 Thus , men like Derek Hatton , the leader of Merseyside , and Ken Livingstone , who led the Greater London Council ( after a brutal coup which removed the previous Labour leader , Andrew McIntosh ) became symbols of ideological extremism and financial extravagance at one and the same time .
10 It responds everywhere to one and the same need , and is everywhere derived from one and the same mental state .
11 It responds everywhere to one and the same need , and is everywhere derived from one and the same mental state .
12 Religion is presented as a response ‘ everywhere to one and the same need ’ : the need for rituals of fertility .
13 Notions of the freedom and autonomy of the self are at one and the same time inverted and used to pervert the ethical and metaphysical values which such a self is or was supposed to instantiate .
14 In one and the same gay milieu one is likely to encounter identification with , desire tor , and parodies of masculinity .
15 He suggests that blacks have been ‘ at one and the same time both more accepting of and more hostile towards homosexuality ’ , and that the hostility has often been extreme — as in the case of Eldridge Cleaver 's notorious attack on James Baldwin ( Altman , Homosexual Oppression , esp .
16 The third is that the new right and Conservatism are one and the same .
17 This inequality , argue Marx and Engels , implies a form of private property , because exclusion from the means of production ( private property ) and compulsion of the labour of others , are one and the same thing .
18 One such example given is Polynesia , and the evidence depends on the fact that in Polynesian kinship terminology , only differences of generation and sex are recognized , so that all males of the generation directly preceding one 's own are referred to by one and the same word , which was glossed by Morgan as ‘ father ’ ; similarly , all females of this same generation are referred to one term , which can be glossed as ‘ mother ’ .
19 He treats both subjects with a wit which is lucid and ambiguous at one and the same time , so that I recalled Charles Lamb 's remark about the possibility of obscurity through too much meaning .
20 At one and the same instant the audience burst into a thundering shout ; the orchestra pealed forth the strains of the Hallelujah Chorus ; the wheels of the great Ellis engine in Machinery Hall commenced to revolve ; the electric fountains in the lagoon threw their torrents towards the sky ; a flood of water gushed from the McMonnies Lake and rolled back again into the basin ; the thunder of artillery came from the vessels in the lake ; the chimes in Manufacturers Hall and on the German building rang out a merry peal , and overhead , the flags at the top of the poles in front of the platform fell apart and revealed the gilded models of the ships in which Columbus first sailed to American shores .
21 Firms within them see no conflict between the interests of shareholders and those of stakeholders , because they are one and the same .
22 Now , briefly , possibly for the very first time in his life , he felt helpless and miserable at one and the same time .
23 The presence of two tricksters on stage at one and the same time is bound to make for comedy , and so it does here .
24 To their extraordinary stories we Christians can add another , of a man on a cross , whose body is twisted in the shape of God 's pain , and whose eyes blaze with his love and his anger at one and the same time .
25 Or rather , showed that a woman 's and a man 's attitude to sex could henceforward be one and the same .
26 The egalitarianism by which aristocrats and their slaves shared in one and the same eucharist was extraordinary .
27 That is why it is possible for a Christian in particular to feel at one and the same time joyful because the person who has died has entered eternal life , and overwhelmingly sad , or guilty , or relieved at the thought that they have died and the survivor is left with vast changes to absorb into their life pattern .
28 On World in Action , Mr Kinnock showed that he can be pithy and incomprehensible at one and the same time .
29 It is possible that the two women are one and the same , or that there is a serial killer on the prowl , but as none of Barbs 's friends or neighbours give a damn where she is , her continuing absence occasions little comment .
30 Continually there is value in the teacher telling the story whilst the class are doing it ; everybody works at one and the same time , discovering for themselves how to do each thing .
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