Example sentences of "while [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally the coach roads were the worst affected , while off the beaten track Green and no doubt others , continued to enjoy the former hospitality and generosity . |
| 2 | While off medication , both subjects showed high levels of blood flow in anterior regions of the brain at the right side ; with stuttering controlled by haloperidol , the flow of blood was greater in the left hemisphere . |
| 3 | I took her there myself while off duty after being injured by a faulty grenade . ’ |
| 4 | However , while off Ushant on 1 June 1794 , HMS Impregnable , together with a fleet of twenty-five other ships under the command of Admiral Earl Howe , went into action against the French . |
| 5 | Loss of regular , bonus or overtime earnings while off work is recoverable . |
| 6 | MANCHESTER CITY 'S players did their talking on the field while off it , the crowd again made their feelings clear over who should control the Maine Road Club . |
| 7 | In his commendation , Chief Constable Keith Hellawell says : ‘ Detective Constable Turnbull is commended for acting in a highly-professional manner , displaying diligence and initiative while off duty . |
| 8 | More than a hundred years have passed since Morelli started writing ; in that time many problems of authorship have been solved , while about others tacit agreement has been reached . |
| 9 | The two essential points are that fewer than one in three had considered paying cash as a real alternative ; and that half said they bought on credit because they did n't have the cash , while about another quarter gave answers ( like ‘ needed it right away ’ ) which boil down to much the same . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , local influences continued to affect voting behaviour , while about four-fifths of the voters appeared to vote according to national party preferences , the remainder did not . |
| 11 | About half of all firms of solicitors fell within this profile , while about one in six firms have five or more partners ( Benson Commission , 1979 , vol. 2 , Section 16 ) . |
| 12 | Phillips and Williams ( 1982b ) found that over 10 per cent of the 1,000 applicants in South Devon were living in bedsitters or caravans , while about one in five were sharing a kitchen , bathroom or WC ; 5 per cent were living in accommodation that lacked at least one of these facilities , and some even lacked mains electricity or water . |
| 13 | ‘ Jack Snipe ’ has white petals which contrast handsomely with their dark lemon-yellow cups , while for sheer daintiness ‘ Hawera ’ is hard to beat . |
| 14 | Indeed , one in ten couples find it takes them over a year , while for others it is much quicker . |
| 15 | While for those thrust into a position of ‘ ritual liminality ’ there is the possibility of becoming ‘ men apart ’ , of standing aside and though not necessarily following political alternatives posed by any counter-culture , undertaking the hero 's journey merely by seeking to comment on the social condition they now see with new eyes . |
| 16 | This would result in muscular development up to the clavicles for a man , preventing a ‘ droopy ’ looking chest , while for a woman it would cause a build-up of tissue leading into her cleavage , thus emphasising her bust . |
| 17 | ‘ History ’ has been given prominence by the New Historicists , while for some graduate students and younger academics ‘ politics ’ has come to seem , as the Goldsmiths Professor at Oxford lately remarked to me , a kind of vital protein , without which a literary work is fatally impoverished . |
| 18 | By 1985 it was recorded that the top 6 per cent of the population in income terms now received 25 per cent of national income , while for the poorest 20 per cent their share had actually fallen from even the 5.9 per cent they enjoyed in 1979 . |
| 19 | While for boys the ‘ justice ’ rather than the ‘ welfare ’ model prevails , between 70 and 80 per cent of girls in care in this country are there as a result of parents or step-parents calling in the social services because they feel their daughters to be ‘ beyond parental control ’ or ‘ morally at risk ’ . |
| 20 | For the Hungarian political parties , facing a general election in March , the issue is of great importance , while for the provisional government now in control in Bucharest the question of Romania 's sovereignty remains extremely sensitive . |
| 21 | So , while for the scholastic tradition ‘ opinion ’ concerns contingencies , for Locke it concerns what seem like contingencies to us , but what , in reality , may be universal certainties . |
| 22 | Celts and Negroes love funerals , Orientals of every kind love weddings , while for inward-looking Saxons the big days are family holidays . |
| 23 | In some areas such as spices , which retain some inorganic minerals , there are good methods for detecting irradiation , while for other foods no reliable methods exist . |
| 24 | The importance of diet in this group of patients is that for some diet alone will suffice , while for the rest there must be a good dietary compliance if control is to be optimal at a steady weight whether using oral agents or insulin . |
| 25 | Clearly this offers no solution for the majority of students from low-income families , while for most rural children no such alternatives exist . |
| 26 | The season was short for tourists in Green 's time and he said that the expensively equipped inns made a frugal living in the two months of the year when they were busy , while for the rest of the year , no one came . |
| 27 | For children there is an exciting lakeside Adventure Playground , while for adults there are extensive grounds , beautiful gardens , a superb house filled with mainly 18th century objets d'art , plus a large period costume collection . |
| 28 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 29 | For the starling this is signal to calm down , while for the rat it is the start of its active period , but in both cases the same hormone seems to be responsible . |
| 30 | To myopic Karen my world was a featureless , threatening blur , while for me hers was a chaos of microscopic inanity . |