Example sentences of "while [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally the coach roads were the worst affected , while off the beaten track Green and no doubt others , continued to enjoy the former hospitality and generosity . |
| 2 | By 1985 it was recorded that the top 6 per cent of the population in income terms now received 25 per cent of national income , while for the poorest 20 per cent their share had actually fallen from even the 5.9 per cent they enjoyed in 1979 . |
| 3 | For the Hungarian political parties , facing a general election in March , the issue is of great importance , while for the provisional government now in control in Bucharest the question of Romania 's sovereignty remains extremely sensitive . |
| 4 | So , while for the scholastic tradition ‘ opinion ’ concerns contingencies , for Locke it concerns what seem like contingencies to us , but what , in reality , may be universal certainties . |
| 5 | The importance of diet in this group of patients is that for some diet alone will suffice , while for the rest there must be a good dietary compliance if control is to be optimal at a steady weight whether using oral agents or insulin . |
| 6 | The season was short for tourists in Green 's time and he said that the expensively equipped inns made a frugal living in the two months of the year when they were busy , while for the rest of the year , no one came . |
| 7 | For the starling this is signal to calm down , while for the rat it is the start of its active period , but in both cases the same hormone seems to be responsible . |
| 8 | While for the prophets the envisioned universal rule of God is an eschatological event , for the Psalmist the enthronement of Yahweh is ‘ a present reality experienced in the cultic ceremony ’ ( Klappert 1976 : Vol . |
| 9 | Split-half reliability for the expressive scales is reported as being between 0.84 and 0.96 , while for the comprehension scales it varies between 0.60 and 0.96 on Scale A , and between 0.46 and 0.95 on Scale B |
| 10 | For the Shavante , the essence of manhood is what Maybury-Lewis ( 1971 : 268–9 ) summarizes as ‘ sexual bellicosity ’ , while for the Piaroa it is the ability to co-operate tranquilly with others in daily life . |
| 11 | And up until now , it has pumped a high level of turnover back into just such research and development — out of £820,000 sales for the fiscal year ending March 1992 , some £213,000 went on this activity , while for the year ending March 1993 , the figure was more like £414,000 , out of total revenues of only £922,000 . |
| 12 | For me , Richter and Kondrashin ( on Philips , and recently issued on their new Insignia label at mid-price ) are far closer to the real thing , while for the best among more modern recordings I would suggest Zimerman and Ozawa on DG . |
| 13 | In the Variations and smaller pieces I questioned their fast tempo for little Maximiliane Brentano 's Allegretto ( WoO39 ) , and even for the minuet-like Scherzo of the early E flat Trio experiment ( WoO38 ) , while for the most part enjoying their wholly natural , unselfconscious approach to these works too . |
| 14 | So , while for the first of these two failures Owen may be criticised , for the second he must be excused . |
| 15 | Rather , it is to agree with his conclusion that , while for the articulate elite , like the artisans who constituted the Owenite membership of the National Union of Working Classes and Others and who debated reform at the London Rotunda , the kind of reform they wanted — annual parliaments , universal suffrage and the ballot — was just what Grey expressly denied . |
| 16 | This was hardly a crucial ultimatum but , coming from a moderate , indeed sympathetic Frenchman , it suggests that the French , generally , were beyond the point of no return ; while for the Vietminh , with assorted military forces estimated at 60,000 , having already lost Haiphong as the point of entry for many of their weapons and in danger now of facing overwhelming French fire power in Hanoi , the temptations of a pre-emptive strike , even if it was an act of desperation , must have been irresistible . |
| 17 | The business was able to carry on but the flat he sometimes used was uninhabitable ; he came up to London only on Tuesday nights and " camped out " for the fire-watching while for the rest of the time he commuted between London and Surrey . |
| 18 | However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case . |
| 19 | If two groups acquiesce in the representation of their perspective through the same array of objects , which for one group is acceptable because it is bright and cheerful , while for the other is acceptable because it enshrines a sense of good design , each may project its own perspective onto the other ; in this case , the object permits the coexistence of two perspectives , rather than the dominance of either . |
| 20 | It is clear , however , that Law Lords while for the most part restricting themselves to the obviously technical are not averse to speaking on social questions like capital punishment , the treatment of offenders and adultery . |
| 21 | As Dr Roper told BBC WILDLIFE , ‘ In the winter , most of the badgers slept together in the main sett , while for the rest of the year they often slept apart in one or other of the outlier setts . ’ |
| 22 | More complicated was the situation at Queen 's , where designs for the front quad were prepared by Hawksmoor , but the scheme executed by Townesend ( 1710–21 ) appears to have been almost entirely the joint work of himself and Clarke ; while for the new building at Magdalen , the original design by Edward Holdsworth [ q.v. ] was revised by Townesend in 1731 under Clarke 's direction . |
| 23 | Newcastle employed him at Claremont , Surrey ( 1752 ) , and as chancellor of Cambridge University secured his employment to design the university library ( 1754–8 ) ; while for the second duke he worked at Clumber House , Nottinghamshire ( 1768–78 , demolished ) , and designed the bridge in Newark in the same county ( 1775 ) . |
| 24 | For the Council , the creation of the new institutions has greatly added to its work , while for the colleges the rigours of course submission and CNAA validation procedures have , in some cases , been traumatic . |
| 25 | The relationship between stress — and strain e for the springs is the Hookean law while for the dash-pot we assume the Newtonian viscosity law . |
| 26 | Resolving the curvature of the line of latitude perpendicular and parallel to the surface gives ; while for the geodesic great circle the corresponding components are 1/r and 0 . |
| 27 | The prize list promises awards in excess of £1,000 , while for the locals an extensive sponsorship deal will ensure there are prizes all through the field . |
| 28 | For the first three firms we can use the Gordon growth model ( 6.27 ) , while for the last firm we use the supernormal growth model ( 6.38 ) . |
| 29 | For risky junctions the risky exemplars show best recognition , while for the least risky junctions the result reverses . |
| 30 | =12 , p<0.01 , while for the three least risky junctions the mean correlation is -0.48 , d.f . |