Example sentences of "same time [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Its goals of supporting advanced features like multi-processing and security while remaining very portable and scalable and at the same time backwards compatible with MS-DOS and 3.1 ‘ will inflict costs in reliability and efficiency while it experiences its share of growing pains . ’
2 Where others might see a more complex situation with a conceptual continuum between starvation , hunger , destitution , poverty ( want ) , and inequality , Moore abolishes poverty by dividing it up between the two extremes of the continuum , also at the same time neatly side-stepping discussion of the visible increase in begging , destitution , and homelessness in major British cities .
3 This was partly because he was not exceptionally bright while being at the same time exceptionally unimaginative , but it was also because odd carvings and perilous tunnels were all in a day 's work .
4 But in Italy at the same time both foreign and native composers were developing forms of secular polyphony which later in the century were to spread over most of Europe and bring about a remarkable expansion of music 's technical resources in the regions of harmony and tonality and in emotional and pictorial expressiveness .
5 These patterns are at one and the same time both common-place and elusive .
6 What White and Bernard also omit to make clear is that , while the great majority of the ordinary members of the church may well have been largely indifferent to theological issues , many of them were at the same time both outraged and alarmed by a number of alien liturgical practices , which were a unique and highly visible feature of English Arminianism .
7 She felt drained , both physically and mentally , yet at the same time strangely exhilarated .
8 It was clear that literature deepened our sense of the import of nationality by giving the most intense and at the same time most manifold expression of it .
9 I was flattered that I 'd been chosen , but at the same time pretty scared .
10 Try to keep regular hours , getting up at the same time however tired you may feel .
11 Above all , it has been unable to bring the highly differentiated elements of strategy and social constituencies together behind a convincing vision of a more deeply democratic and at the same time thoroughly 20th-century , socially just society .
12 The average female English or American Tourist is rude and self-assertive while at the same time ridiculously helpless and awkward .
13 That the other person in Jack 's life , Mrs Moore , was also profoundly lonely is made clear by a generous , and at me same time comically self-revealing , letter which she wrote to Warnie on 29 October .
14 Not all the clergy and all the religious orders have been actively engaged in the pursuit of this ideal , but one or two orders have been ; for example , the Christian Brothers are devoted to the ideals of a Christian and catholic education , and supporters of the concept of a nation dedicated to God and at the same time distinctly Irish .
15 In sport , for example , the professional player is often held to be socially inferior , if at the same time technically superior , to the amateur .
16 Protection can mean Defence of the Faith , i.e. of Christianity , or it can mean the adoption and identification of a ‘ guardian spirit ’ , who will watch over your life-journey , a universal , but at the same time very individual and personal desire , expressed in most religions and cultures .
17 He was at the same time very simple and very noble .
18 So that when , in an access of zeal , von Lemke has Stepan 's house raided and some old-fashioned radical literature removed , the narrator finds him ‘ in a surprising condition : upset and in great agitation , but at the same time unquestionably triumphant ’ .
19 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 .
20 A testimony may be fascinating but at the same time quite irrelevant to the basic questions touching on faith and doubt .
21 ‘ May we at least look ? ’ said Roland , imagining perhaps a hidden drawer , and at the same time uncomfortably aware of the laundry lists in Northanger Abbey .
22 His manner of playing the piano has something so basically individual about it , and at the same time so masterly , that he may really be described as the perfect virtuoso . ’
23 " Nowhere " , he wrote , is there so much and at the same time so little centralization as there is in Russia .
24 To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game .
25 And yet there was something so powerfully rebuking , and at the same time so unassailable about his figure looming over them that Mr Charles 's two drunken companions seemed to cower back like small boys caught by the farmer in the act of stealing apples .
26 It felt so safe and so right , and at the same time so electric , stirring her in ways that were becoming increasingly familiar , and increasingly delightful .
27 A telephone poll in Moscow , for instance , found that 42 per cent of respondents thought the results of the summit were ‘ very good ’ , and that a further 44 per cent thought they were ‘ good ’ ; at the same time only 37 per cent thought the treaty would strengthen the security of the USSR , and 8 per cent thought it might be detrimental to Soviet interests .
28 Government must decide at the same time how much to spend and how to pay for spending .
29 Often , too , our skills enable us to suggest at the same time how technical problems might be solved .
30 I will admit that I am a total tube head when it comes to guitar amps , but at the same time sufficiently open-minded to have previously applauded other companies ' efforts in solid state technology .
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