Example sentences of "while [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old enough to take care of himself , while she had been eight years old . |
| 2 | While there had been much speculation about the state of Diana 's marriage , the stories Morton gathered from friends such as Caroline Bartholomew , James Gilbey and Diana 's brother Charles were dynamite . |
| 3 | By 1968 some 73 per cent of beer production was in the hands of seven major national firms , while there had been further progress towards the consolidation of a number of medium-sized regional breweries , largely at the expense of the smaller local firms . |
| 4 | While there had been some improvements in terms of flags and emblems , young people still do not apply for work in unsafe areas because of the serious risks involved . |
| 5 | While there has been much speculation as to the cause of these phenomena , the corpus of relevant empirical research remains small . |
| 6 | While there has been much research on the short term memory system of the type used to , eg , remember telephone numbers , relatively little is known about the nature of temporary memory for information which is held in the focus of attention during reading and conversation ( ‘ foregrounded' information ) . |
| 7 | But while there has been little analysis of the social relations of earlier , equally formal though smaller , or less formal and indeed informal institutions and associations , there ought to be some theoretical hesitation . |
| 8 | There has been a contraction and closure of plants , especially in the central urban areas , while there has been some expansion elsewhere . |
| 9 | While there has been some disagreement over the incidence of EEG spindling in neonates , the consensus of reports indicates that the development of spindles in the EEG of normal sleeping infants occurs between the end of the second month and end of the fourth , and the appearance of persistent spindling earlier or later than this time window tends to be associated with other clinical abnormalities . |
| 10 | While there has been some work on aspects of constitutions — particularly voting rules — only very recently has there been a return to the constitutional perspective associated with the classical constitutional theory associated with Montesquieu and Madison . |
| 11 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Ms Lyles noted that while there have been major surveys of British watercolours in recent years ( such as that held at the British Museum in 1985 ) these have tended to be in-house shows , with the emphasis on highlights from individual collections . |
| 12 | Radiotherapy has no proved value in the treatment of gastric cancer and while there have been numerous trials of various chemotherapy regimens , none have proved to be valuable either as an adjuvant treatment or for advanced disease . |
| 13 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 14 | Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ? |
| 15 | The salvation and solace for this state of mind is art , which converts thoughts of loathing into ideas it is possible to live with : horror is tamed and made sublime , while what had been disgusting absurdity becomes comic . |