Example sentences of "while the [noun pl] [be] still " in BNC.
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| 1 | This concentration of digestion at the incisor tips is highly characteristic of the prey assemblages of the category 2 species ( Fig. 3.22 F-I ) , and must be linked with heavier digestion combined with the high retention rate of the incisors in the jaws ( Tables 3.6 and 3.8 ) , most of the digestion occurring while the incisors are still in place in the jaws ( Fig. 3.22 H ) : in the long-eared owl samples , four times as many in situ incisors are digested as isolated incisors and three times as many for Verreaux eagle owl ( data from Table 3.13 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ You mean while the lights are still up ? ’ |
| 3 | I knew to leave the door open , as I knew to clear a path to the kitchen door , while the chairs were still hand-stripped pine to me . |
| 4 | While the arms are still in the air , they make circling motions , first in a clockwise , then in an anti-clockwise direction , about 20 times . |
| 5 | Moreover the developers of new applications are increasingly doing their work on workstations , while the maintainers are still stuck on the mainframe itself . |
| 6 | Although the house in which Eric was now hidden was an isolated one , we could n't exclude the possibility of a German search , so I set off there on my bicycle while the Germans were still questioning people . |
| 7 | Remember to stretch while the muscles are still warm from working or directly after a bath and hold each position statically for at least 15 seconds . |
| 8 | ‘ We would light matches and while the heads were still hot press them on the ticks — a long job . |
| 9 | As autumn approaches , but while the trees are still in leaf , the beavers cut down saplings and sink them in the lake . |
| 10 | I never really regretted opting out , and I know that I could never have settled down to a steady shore job while the cutters were still available . |
| 11 | For instance , on the day we moved , while the men were still lurching around with their crates and cardboard boxes , Tod slipped out into the garden-the garden on which he had worked for so many years . |
| 12 | Drain , and if you wish , peel off the skin while the artichokes are still warm . |
| 13 | Cleaning your house while the kids are still growing is like shovelling the snow before it stops snowing . |
| 14 | All these mammalian orders stem from small insectivorous animals that inhabited the forests while the dinosaurs were still living . |
| 15 | It is sometimes found that operations to remove congenital cataracts ( soft opacities in the lens ) when a child is of school age are disappointing in that full vision is not effective because the appropriate stage in development of visual perception has been passed while the opacities were still present . |