Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] while [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to carry on with the normal routine while suffering from depression has been likened to driving a car in top gear with the brakes full on . |
| 2 | He described how the Japanese used a laser beam strategy within a poorly drafted law to penetrate the European market while protecting their own domestic market behind a dynastic organisational structure which only permitted import access when the dynasty deemed it politically expedient to do so . |
| 3 | As far as the reference to the ‘ customary ’ tuning of the 6-string bass , Gibson was referring to what has become the modern standard amongst contemporary players : that is , opting for the low B while keeping the fourths tuning intact across the other five strings . |
| 4 | The difference was that when constructing a plot she was able to invent clues that would subtly direct her readers in the direction of the guilty person while strewing their path with red herrings . |
| 5 | But 70-year-old Mr Lowes , who unearthed the historic treasures while searching for lost tools on Home Farm , at Hoxne , Suffolk last November , is totally relaxed about the whole thing . |
| 6 | Lying on your left side , propped up on one arm and with the left leg bent back , raise and lower the right leg while pressing down on your thigh with the ball . |
| 7 | Bracing the right side while turning the shoulders , trunk and hips , creates the coil spring effect at the top of the backswing . |
| 8 | A great deal has been written , in the last few months , about the Institute 's ability to straddle two horses at the same time : can it serve the public interest while serving members ' interests ? |
| 9 | A second important difference is that if he misses his place in a routine he will be totally lost , whereas if he happens to go in the wrong direction while using a map he is still able to make whatever correction is necessary . |
| 10 | AN AMERICAN accused of killing a Japanese exchange student who knocked on the wrong door while looking for a Halloween party said he acted in self-defence when his trial opened yesterday . |
| 11 | Similarly , using the wrong rhythm while speaking a second language immediately singles you out as a foreigner . |
| 12 | But he had provided a double failsafe mechanism for himself in case he accidently pressed the wrong key while accessing the code . |
| 13 | They are likely to be found breast-feeding in the high street while swopping telephone numbers of their family acupuncturists . |
| 14 | Taxing all health in-surance benefits provided by employers over a basic insurance package would reduce some inequities at the high end while producing revenues to help small employers and self employed workers to buy insurance . |
| 15 | We want to stay at the top level while doing the same things we did 40 years ago . |
| 16 | Coffee was cultivated on the steep slopes while housing and processing plants were located on flatter ridges . |
| 17 | True , it did so cautiously — the cut in the discount rate from 8.0 to 7.5 per cent ( with no change in the Lombard rate ) does indeed represent a modest move — but this caution is clearly an attempt to take account of the slowdown of the German economy while signalling that the central bankers are continuing to keep an eye on inflation . |
| 18 | Withdrawal from the Coalition Government was critical if the process was to go any further : how could Labour make genuinely independent peace overtures to the German socialists while retaining its direct involvement in the Lloyd George Government ? |
| 19 | The calibration is carried out by mounting the magnetometer core centrally in the coils and adjusting the peak-to-peak output while reversing the coil current , set to a constant value appropriate to the range being calibrated . |
| 20 | Shoe shop owner Nick Dando and his wife Melanie made the gruesome find while taking their daughters on a nature ramble in remote woodland . |
| 21 | Specifically- one strong hypothesis is that of Fama and Jensen : Organisations compete for survival , and the form of organisation that survives in an activity is the one that delivers the product demanded by the customers at the lowest price while covering costs ' ( 1983 , p. 345 ) — a Darwinian view . |
| 22 | The capacity to love the individual sufferer while confronting the disease and making the sufferer fully responsible for the consequences of all his or her actions . |
| 23 | In the West , the notion of freedom seeks to increase the potential for action in the outer world while keeping the inner state as constant , and rational , as possible . |
| 24 | The objective is to start the budgeting process as late as possible in the preceding year while allowing budget-holders time to agree their budget before the start of the budget year . |
| 25 | If the report has to be in a statutory format ( eg a long form report ) check the required format while drafting to avoid amending later . |
| 26 | He told police that he had tried cannabis during the previous weekend while driving in Catterick Garrison with a friend . |
| 27 | At one point the driver overtook a line of vehicles on the hard shoulder while travelling at around a hundred and thirty miles an hour . |
| 28 | , You enter the downwind leg while flying a Bonanza and find you are about 400 metres behind a Piper Tri-Pacer which is flying considerably more slowly than you are . |
| 29 | It means keeping Northern Ireland in the UK state for the foreseeable future while banning its citizens from the politics of the state . |
| 30 | Dod was half way through his case of lager , Kim had severely damaged my hip flask and Ali knew the route so well he was now reading The Satanic Verses while driving . |