Example sentences of "[noun] while [art] rest " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village felt rather as if it were a hopeful ark floating in isolation while the rest of the world was covered over , hidden from sight by watery winter . |
| 2 | Of these only 6,000 had been classified as refugees while the rest were determined to be " economic " migrants . |
| 3 | Sacco swarmed up the steering-wheel post and wrestled the keys out of the ignition while the rest of the boys poked around in the cab . |
| 4 | Today it is around 42% while the rest is obtained competitively from research grants and contracts or from student fees . |
| 5 | FERGIE 'S invitation to join the Queen for Christmas will see her banished to a lonely farmhouse while the rest of the royal family whoop it up two miles away at Sandringham . |
| 6 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 7 | At its simplest two people ( or a small group ) enact a scene or a drama while the rest of the group watch . |
| 8 | Border , who once said that the day Marsh and David Boon are out of the Australian side will be the day he goes as well , got back out on the ground soon enough , but he continued to fuel the fire by staying behind in Adelaide that evening while the rest of the team flew on to Perth to prepare for the fifth and final Test . |
| 9 | Secretary Derek Brooks said : ‘ We arranged flights for club president Marab Jordania and Georgian FA president Nodar Akhalkatsi ; they flew to Geneva while the rest of the party took a chartered flight to Georgia . |
| 10 | Secretary Derek Brooks said : ‘ We arranged flights for club president Marab Jordania and Georgian FA president Nodar Akhalkatsi ; they flew to Geneva while the rest of the party took a chartered flight to Georgia . |
| 11 | POWER stations take up 11.5 billion litres of water a day while the rest of industry uses up only 3.4 billion litres per day . |
| 12 | China 's leaders have become so fearful of revolt that Tiananmen is guarded round the clock by uniformed soldiers with guns while the rest of Peking remains firmly under martial law . |
| 13 | He must take his chance while the rest of the house was quiet . |
| 14 | They needed somewhere to store the boiler while the rest of the loco is away for repair and the maltings was only too pleased to help . |
| 15 | Use mole grips to secure one end of the wire to the foot while the rest is being looped round . |
| 16 | This contains a collection of tools for the design and development of parallel applications both in Fortran ( a nod towards the scientific community ) and C. The environment has to be running on at least one processor while the rest of the processors in the cluster need parallel client software installed . |
| 17 | Those in the lower group of six would play a total of 36 matches with the first two teams keeping their place in the Premier Division while the rest would be relegated in 1994 . |
| 18 | Our practice for rest days was to find a safe harbour for the ship where she could be left alongside with two standby crew on board while the rest of the lads went home . |
| 19 | This went on for three hours while the rest of us were preparing for the move to Canjuers . |
| 20 | It would seem amazingly out of step for east European countries to be finding their national indentities after 40 years of being forced into artificial political groupings while the rest of Europe was seeking to impose federalism and political union on its member states at the same moment when they are starting down the road to a single European market — perhaps the acid test of how much one of us wants the Common Market to succeed . |
| 21 | He was the kid who went back to be Frank Sinatra 's bar-tender in the vacation while the rest of us were toting Christmas mail for the Post Office . |
| 22 | Would he eventually be ousted by one of them , a toothless lion left to die of starvation while the rest of the herd loped off after game he could no longer compete for ? |
| 23 | Far too many States satisfy their own little parochial requirements by confining the circulation of their accident reports to their own government departments while the rest of the world can go hang and learn its own lesson by suffering a similar accident . |
| 24 | As the monsoon season ran its usual course in Snowdonia , anybody with any sense fled to warmer climes while the rest of us sat and talked about what we would do if it was n't raining . |
| 25 | Evening fell early over Lydia 's garden while the rest of the valley preened itself in the setting sun . |
| 26 | We sat in silence while the rest of the audience trickled in . |
| 27 | He stays behind now with the old men , women and children while the rest of the village puts to sea for nine months . " |
| 28 | Two will probably travel by plane while the rest of the party go by sea . |
| 29 | From the age of 5 years between a half and one-third of cases of bedwetting were primary enuresis while the rest were secondary onset . |
| 30 | Two telephones permit students at opposite ends of the classroom to engage in conversation while the rest of the class listens . |