Example sentences of "while [verb] [conj] [pron] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same it is useful here to set up a paradigm of the profitability calculation against which to assess the prospects for investment planning , while accepting that there is considerable scope for variation in the actual calculations performed by particular enterprises . |
| 2 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |
| 3 | We can not sit idly by and watch Yugoslavia tear itself to pieces , watch people being killed in vast numbers , and watch the wonderful archaeological and architectural gems being destroyed , while saying that there is nothing that we can do . |
| 4 | In this way the lawyer has a part to play within political movements , such as the peace movement , while acknowledging that it is not law alone that can bring about the changes we desire , but it is that movement as a whole that can and must do so . |
| 5 | Rangers , of course , have had to make do without Gough on numerous occasions this season because of injury and , while acknowledging that he is inspirational , they have not found the loss costly . |
| 6 | He may still plead not guilty while admitting that he is the person concerned in the alleged offence . |
| 7 | While admitting that he is still ‘ feeling my way ’ , he says , ‘ I 'm glad the diocese is run the way it is and the suffragans have a proper role — you can so easily end up just confirming and licensing . ’ |
| 8 | On the whole the authors avoid these sterile tactics and show an awareness of the strengths of the relativist position while arguing that it is mistaken . |
| 9 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that many people inside and outside the House , while recognising that it is important to spend two days debating the future of Europe , wonder why the House is not debating , even for a short time , the fact that a war is raging in a European country — Yugoslavia ? |
| 10 | While declaring that she is ‘ on neither one side or the other ’ , your correspondent clearly feels that the blame for the conflict and the consequent damage to the school reputation lies firmly with the campaigning parents . |
| 11 | In reply , the restructuring school , while agreeing that it is important to distinguish long-term and short-term changes , might argue that within any long-term decentralization there have been periods of crucial importance . |