Example sentences of "and while they " in BNC.
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| 1 | During field-work there was only one incident related to sexual abuse , and this was dealt with by policemen , and while they showed something of a blasé attitude towards it in feeling that the victim was ‘ hardly touched ’ and the offender ‘ did n't do anything anyway ’ ( FN 2/11/87 , pp. 5–6 ) , they pursued the case thoroughly . |
| 2 | And while they were taking their time we argued about something else . |
| 3 | As for their children , they would not be allowed to live in Britain for any length of time , and while they were here they would be prevented from attending school . |
| 4 | ‘ Wait for the beer , ’ he said , and while they waited exchanged jovial insults with the men at the counter . |
| 5 | ‘ While people are cautious about a lot of developments in Europe , rightly so , and while they are looking for British advantage , rightly so , they realise it can not be done from the back of the class . |
| 6 | And while they force you to be what you do not want to be , they are also teaching you how to be parents . |
| 7 | They would sit out in their deckchairs in brilliant sunshine , surveying snow-covered range after magnificent snow-covered range , and while they took refreshment , take snapshots of one another , and chatter about the delights of a winter sports holiday in the Savoy Alps , the more energetic would be trudging up from below on seal skins or swooping by from above demonstrating their skill . |
| 8 | Both products work on contact , and while they will kill adult aphids they do not harm their eggs . |
| 9 | George Bernard Shaw was altogether more worldly-wise , observing that ‘ all professions are conspiracies against the laity , ’ and while they affected contempt for the medieval craft guilds , with their closed shops , the professions were in reality based upon very similar principles . |
| 10 | Scholars such as Alcuin composed verses with many hidden references or acrostic patterns , and while they may seem trivial today , they represented a quest for pattern , meaning and subtle order , and were not mere exercises in wittiness . |
| 11 | It seems that this remains true for many members and while they develop great loyalty to their branches and individual antenatal teachers or breastfeeding counsellors , the significance of the national organisation largely passes them by . |
| 12 | They waited for the priest to pass along with the thin wafer of bread and while they did so their hands were like this , cupped and raised in a gesture that might be offering or receiving . |
| 13 | He vehemently dislikes smoking and while they were together she stopped smoking and cut down on drinking . |
| 14 | She fetched some home-made cakes for them and a glass of lemonade each , and while they ate and drank opened her parcels . |
| 15 | I have weighed quite a few bream as soon as I have removed the hook , and again several hours later , and while they always lose some weight , there is no specific loss in terms of so many ounces per hour . |
| 16 | Some 12 per cent of the world 's cultivated land is irrigated , of which more than half is affected to some extent by these problems which inevitably lead to a reduction in crop productivity , the very factor that such schemes were established to increase salinisation and waterlogging are particularly significant in arid and semiarid regions where irrigation is necessary for agriculture , and while they are important in developed nations , they are fast becoming major environmental problems in many developing nations . |
| 17 | Many of these enterprises are controlled by external corporations or by a landed élite that comprises only a small proportion of the population , and while they are responsible for a great deal of environmental degradation they provide little benefit to the majority of the indigenous people . |
| 18 | There was a new desire for ‘ reality ’ and for ‘ self-expression ’ , and while they held within them dangers , they also held the possibility of ‘ veracity and strenuous life ’ . |
| 19 | Bone accumulations such as these are usually self-evident , and while they indicate which animals were present in an area , their limitation to a few species restricts their usefulness for ecological interpretation . |
| 20 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 21 | And while they certainly are open to research and development and to further invention , the way they evolve is as complex as the evolution of the natural world . |
| 22 | In Australia , in Melbourne Park , a hundred thousand people sat waiting for the Victorian Football League Cup Final , and while they waited the 100 metres was to be relayed on the stadium scoreboard from Seoul . |
| 23 | Clear confusion reigned in their instinctive minds , and while they dithered on the banks , the water rose behind them , cutting off retreat . |
| 24 | Yet still the Prussians delayed introducing expropriation to Pomerania until May 1912 lest they provoke an uprising , and while they bought up only four estates totalling over 6,624 hectares of land , they paid more than double the market rate . |
| 25 | The British General Strike of 1926 had given both Germany and Poland a new sense of the gains that might be made through co-operation , and while they explored this unexpected windfall , the effects of the Polish currency reform were hidden . |
| 26 | Rae and his wife Heather , at the front in the photo , came to Malta on holiday and while they were here they came to stay with me and my husband Brian . |
| 27 | Owners have to be especially vigilant in the first few moments when the dogs are brought back together , and while they settle down to rest . |
| 28 | The water should be 75°F to 85°F and while they will successfully breed in hard alkaline water with a 7.8pH , better results may be obtained in somewhat softer and more acidic conditions . |
| 29 | A Undergravel filters still remain the most popular form of biological filtration for marine aquaria , and while they do it is important that the hobbyist gets it right from the outset . |
| 30 | His intention was to water both horses and while they had their nose-bags of oats , he would sit in the shade with his allowance and a bottle of cold tea . |