Example sentences of "while [v-ing] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the way that the two animals stand in relation to one another while grooming is going on , it is these vertical lines that are placed slap in front of their ‘ nearside ’ eyes . |
| 2 | Should an order for meals need to be altered , or an error be discovered , while unloading is taking place at the plane , the driver of the vehicle supplying the meals can simply radio back to base and within minutes the problem is resolved . |
| 3 | Other measures which are clearly associated with subjective risk while driving are cognitive load as measured by dual-task performance ( e.g. Harms , 1986 , 1991 ; Hoyos , 1988 ) and verbal ratings of the chances of being involved in a near miss ( Watts & Quimby , 1980 ) . |
| 4 | While wandering is not a major problem in the home it is nevertheless important that there is space for that to take place . |
| 5 | Rather , while ageing is often experienced as a disruptive life event , some people find that they are able to accommodate themselves to the changes — both practical and emotional — in their lives . |
| 6 | Because I had n't sorted myself out about the whole thing properly , my feelings while waiting were a complete tangle — although I did n't want to see him , I did desperately want him to want to see me . |
| 7 | Jane accompanied her hostess , who had taken her ten-year-old bronchial , backward ( ‘ France is the capital of Paris ’ ) overactive child to one , and while waiting was confided in by a fashionable , staring-eyed woman . |
| 8 | The first two will be assessed for certification by external examination while Investigating is assessed internally . |
| 9 | The top-security ‘ dispersal prisons ’ are frequently not filled to capacity , while overcrowding is concentrated in local prisons ( which predominantly house remand prisoners and those on short-term sentences ) . |
| 10 | Running is obviously an aerobic activity while weightlifting is anaerobic . |
| 11 | It is important in composition to be intensely self-critical , but to be self-critical while improvising is a difficult task indeed . |
| 12 | Shooting rabbits while ferreting is a specialist business . |
| 13 | The writer of the article in The Saturday Review , presumably Hope , claimed to be aware of the identity of the authors of the four ‘ boná fide Gothic designs ’ while judging was in progress , but properly refrained from naming them . |
| 14 | This struck me very forcibly , as I too have occasionally had both sorts of flying dream , and while floating is quite enjoyable , flying at tree-top level is much more satisfactory . |
| 15 | While dreaming is inevitably idiosyncratic and personal , a number of themes regularly recur for many people . |
| 16 | Such a mode of subsistence demands that the population be relatively sparsely dispersed , at least during the daytime while foraging is going on . |