Example sentences of "while [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 2 | E. J. W. Gibb says that Molla Husrev departed for Bursa in 875/1470 , while d'Ohsson gives 1472 ( 876–7 ) . |
| 3 | When he turned into the car park of an attractive roadside pub Leonora went off to ring her sister while Penry gave their orders . |
| 4 | Tom flung himself back into the chair beside her , still without speaking , and Belinda stood there while Faye gave her a watchful glance . |
| 5 | Only two of the standard biographical sources suggest any alternative to this date : the gives both 832/1428–9 and 834 as possibilities , while Ali gives Rajab 833/March-April 1430 . |
| 6 | For example , while LMS gives the governing body the power to cut their school 's staffing establishment , they also have the power to exceed the level that would have been fixed by the LEA . |
| 7 | As he ran his moke up and down Vitor 's shoulder , Thomas 's grin said he was delighted to have met him , while Vitor gave every impression of being well used to handling a child . |
| 8 | And while BR gave up carrying more categories of goods and our daily newspapers overnight , the overall freight picture again improved to a greater extent than most people forecast . |
| 9 | For while Schopenhauer gave music a gratifyingly important role within his scheme of things , the music on which he based his theories was primarily the formally respectable tradition that he saw represented in Haydn and Mozart ; and the importance he gave to music turned to a large extent on its supposed capacity to foster the right — dispassionate and otherworldly — response . |
| 10 | Finally , Ebussu'ud Efendi also stipulated the number of students to whom each entitled office-holder in the learned profession might grant and though the numbers which he fixed are not reported , figures have been given above which comprise a partial list for the of 959 and 963 , while Ata'i gives another partial list for the of 973 , in which the kazaskers were each permitted to invest ten students as " the kadis of the three cities ' i.e. those of Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa ) five each , and " the other kadis of the throne " a term of uncertain application , but almost certainly comprising at least the other kadis mentioned in the decree of 963 ) three each : the figures for the kazaskers at least , and probably the others as well , applied down to Ata'i 's own day . |
| 11 | Her mother and her husband usually made her feel plain and failed , while Constance gave her a feeling that she was , at least , adequate . |
| 12 | Compact discs can store data too , and act as a superb archiving medium for large databases , while videodiscs give instant access to thousands of high-quality photographic images on one 14-inch disc . |
| 13 | She listened while Silas gave them a talk on safety measures , reminding them that if anyone fell out he must lie on his back . |
| 14 | While quartz gives grey and white interference colours , the bright colours of Plate 6.1b are produced by an amphibole mineral ( pale colour to yellow to red ) and the black and white stripey pattern by the feldspar mineral plagioclase . |
| 15 | Their first objective would be to capture quick-firing 20mm and 40mm guns around these positions : secondly , they would hold perimeter bridges leading to the south and west sides of the submarine basin and the dry-dock while others gave close protection to the demolition parties . |
| 16 | Some employers introduced ‘ speed-up ’ for their factory hands , resulting in less work for homeworkers , while others gave the best paying work to their indoor hands and gave out only the inferior grades of work which required the most time spent on it to houses where the inspectors were unlikely to penetrate . |
| 17 | Some ways in which the nobility profited from war were more acceptable to the mores of the age than others , some more or less guaranteed reward , while others gave opportunity to gamble for high profits . |
| 18 | It 's not always easy to compare like with like , as some makers give pto power at rated ( =maximum governed ) engine rpm while others give it the revs equivalent to unc shaft speed(s) . |
| 19 | In his later years there was a tendency to treat Wordsworth as a venerable sage : there is too much sentimental piety about some descriptions , while others give the impression of a strange , and slightly dotty , old man of the mountains . |
| 20 | Marshal Pétain has traced in our history pages some of which remain luminous while others give rise to interpretations that still conflict and arouse lively passions . |
| 21 | X-cells respond to standing contrast with a sustained response that persists as long as the stimulus is present , while Y-cells give a transient response that fades during the course of the stimulus presentation . |
| 22 | ‘ This is fantastic , ’ Alex said , stopping to admire , while Charlotte gave David a decorous kiss . |