Example sentences of "[vb pp] while [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In truth , little business is expected while the results flow in . |
| 2 | He is bitterly humiliated when he is beaten in a fist-battle with Thomas Fox , arranged by the captain as the climax to a day of races and contests organised to keep the hands occupied while the ship is becalmed . |
| 3 | This was emphasised by the peace — a ritual kiss of reconciliation with which the congregation were occupied while the priest made his communion . |
| 4 | An object close to the camera , with a very short out-and-return light-path from flash to film , will be imaged while the sound-pulse is still at the back of the emulsion but by the time light from an object 15 metres away has reached the film , the sound-pulse will have reached its front face . |
| 5 | The back division have badly under-performed while the forwards have hardly put a foot wrong , with debutant No 8 , Michael Galwey , outstanding . |
| 6 | As with Admiralty Charts , a comprehensive range of features for navigating at sea are included while the canal includes such details as locks and bridges . |
| 7 | He was carrying a bunch of ragwort that he 'd picked while the cows were grazing on the Kālādika . |
| 8 | The encouraging figures come at a time when the number of young people in the county has dropped while the older population has increased . |
| 9 | The care of healthy , dependent children due to suffer bereavement as a result of the HIV epidemic in Lothian should be addressed while the problem is still in its infancy . |
| 10 | Courses are generally run by two ESL specialists , one of whom is an experienced trainer but who does not necessarily have classroom teaching experience in the subject area being addressed while the second is chosen because they have worked in the subject area , usually as part of a language support team , but sometimes because they themselves have training and/or experience in the subject area . |
| 11 | Two or more stage alarm procedures may have to be considered where adjacent risks occur , so that the area primarily at risk is alarmed and evacuated while the adjacent areas are warned for a stand-by situation . |
| 12 | The station area was evacuated while the controlled explosion was carried out . |
| 13 | But that money has been frozen while the Maxwell empire is investigated , and Mr Govier ca n't even claim unemployment benefit . |
| 14 | Walters observes : ‘ unfortunately , it is so often the case that it is the painful , extreme , and perhaps rare effects of punishment that are stressed while the ‘ thorns and little shocks ’ that occur day in and day out which may ceaselessly , slowly and effectively change our habits and , indeed , our destinies are ignored . ’ |
| 15 | Dynamically loadable modules allow printers , disks and other devices to be installed while the system is running , which also reduces RAM requirements . |
| 16 | If you want to protect areas of your picture from accidental damage a window facility is provided and only the area inside can be edited while the window is active . |
| 17 | How many had been beggared while the war between the royal cousins had swept across their fields or through their towns , while the barons who should have protected them looked only to their own gain , shifting loyalties so often that the ordinary common man found himself constantly besieged and attacked by both sides ? |
| 18 | Rocky the guard dog was drugged while the thieves broke into locked tack rooms at Murton Blue House riding school , near Wingate , when stable manager Keith Taylor was out . |
| 19 | For the first class she had just taken two soft pencils , and she had sketched while the others had mixed watercolours for the still life of a bowl of apples , oranges and pears . |
| 20 | ‘ He was thrown aside and seriously injured while the car sped off . |
| 21 | The people of Northern Ireland naturally and rightly reason that if what they have suffered at the hands of the southern-spawned IRA , they have suffered while a majority , how much greater would that persecution not be if they ever entered a state in which they were a perpetual minority . |
| 22 | The SPD 's position was further weakened while the Republicans managed to improve their position despite leadership problems in mid-1990 [ see p. 37676 ] . |
| 23 | For example , if I measure a car traveling down the highway , I might think it had moved only one kilometer , but to someone on the sun , it would have moved about 1,800 kilometers , because the earth would have moved while the car was going down the road . |
| 24 | ABOVE : William Dick 's notes on ‘ Mr Coleman 's Introductory lecture ’ made while a student at the College . |
| 25 | An assignment of a deposit , in whole or in part , made while a bank is trading normally was not struck down . |
| 26 | One , undated , but clearly made while the negotiations were taking place , bound the earls of Angus , Argyll , Crawford , Marischal , Cassillis and Glencairn and ten others to fulfil the council decision that pledges should be sent to England as surety for the accomplishing of the marriage — that is , human pledges . |
| 27 | First recordings , too , can offer a freshness of discovery that is unique ; one thinks here of an unforgettable record by Heifetz of the Glazunov Violin concerto , made while the composer was still alive , that has never been surpassed since . |
| 28 | This rage gives S +1 , I + 5 and WS +10 , but no parries may be made while the character is affected . |
| 29 | However , its stance was no cruder than most war movies made during wartime ; and it remains the only major Hollywood film about Vietnam to be made while the war was being waged . |
| 30 | John Wayne leads CIDG Strikers in a counter-attack during the assault on the Special Forces camp in The Green Berets ( 1968 ) , the only film made while the war was being fought . |