Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] while [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to the alpine Club library in London and found that while the mountain does n't have the drama of the Matterhorn or the Eiger , there had been a lot of activity on it in the Golden Age . |
| 2 | However , consumer questionnaires found that while the Superspec concept appealed to 91 per cent of people , only a third were willing to pay a premium for energy efficiency . |
| 3 | Edwards ( 1986 ) found that while the simple past was acquired early by her Dudley informants , the past marked with did , etc. was acquired much later . |
| 4 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Lords , sitting as the final court of appeal , ruled that while the ITC and its members had a moral responsibility to its creditors , the creditors had no contractual claims under English law against the 22 member states of the ITC . |
| 5 | The townsfolk of Kirkbymoorside realised that while the snow lasted , the farm-wives would be unable to reach the market with their produce so Annie and Elizabeth were secure in the knowledge that whenever they were able to get out of the valley , their customers would be waiting . |
| 6 | Mr Forte admitted that while the BHRCA was the largest industry association , there were other groups which had a ‘ legitimate claim to speak for certain sectors of the industry ’ . |
| 7 | Late in 1867 , despite calls for resistance from among his more conservative supporters , he formally returned political authority to the emperor , but this move proved inadequate to appease his more extreme opponents , who argued that while the Tokugawa continued to control more than 25 per cent of the country they were bound to play the dominant role in councils of state . |
| 8 | Mrs J. Ramsay MacDonald believed that while a prohibition on married women 's work would cause distress in the short term , in the long run it would ensure that men provided for their families . |
| 9 | He added that while the evangelicals had their part in the Church he did not think that on the whole they had the qualities suitable for being bishops . ’ |
| 10 | But he added that while the committee considered striking Mr O'Reilly off the register , they had agreed to adjourn the hearing for six months . |
| 11 | Andrew Neil , editor of the Sunday Times , described it as a ‘ busybody 's charter ’ and added that while the MPs said they were trying to protect small people they were really protecting themselves . |
| 12 | I realized I would need to convince them at the first opportunity that I was primarily a practical policeman and not an academic ; and I also noted that while the college was keen to list the academic qualifications of those on the course , the participants quickly justified Lewis 's assertions by playing them down to emphasize their history of praxis and practical mastery . |
| 13 | The communiqué also noted that while the trend towards overcoming " the bloc model of security " was " becoming irreversible " , it sought " a new , pan-European system of security " based on closer co-operation with NATO and with neutral and non-aligned states . |
| 14 | As the first axe cut into the Tree , a great wailing cry of agony rent the thick stifling heat of the workshop and Nuadu knew at once that the Tree had been taken down while it lived and while the naiad still dwelled within it . |
| 15 | The report stated that while the number of new settlements had levelled off in recent years , the Jewish population in the occupied territories was growing by as much as 10 per cent annually . |
| 16 | One calculation , for example , showed that while the occupied population increased by 35 per cent between 1911 and 1966 , the real value ( at constant factor price ) of the national income increased by over 150 per cent ( Bacon et al. |
| 17 | He proposed a reduction in the State President 's powers , and reaffirmed that while the Separate Amenities Act would be repealed in 1990 , and the Group Areas Act replaced with a non-discriminatory law the following year , other apartheid legislation would remain on the statute book until a new constitution was drawn up . |
| 18 | In the US magazine Science for the People , Rita Arditti commented that while the sperm donor is continually called the ’ natural father ’ , the woman who becomes pregnant is in fact being hired as a surrogate wife and is never called the ’ natural mother ’ , but the ’ surrogate mother ’ . |
| 19 | Reports in late August indicated that while the enforcement of the air exclusion zone had proved effective , there appeared to have been an intensification of the government 's ground campaign against Shia rebels . |
| 20 | It followed that while the Home Secretary was free to take account of the terms of the Convention , he was not obliged to do so and that the terms of the Convention were irrelevant to the court 's decision . |
| 21 | Yeremi soon discovered that while a monomolecular blade was excellent for bisecting a skull as such , when it came to dissecting the contents the knife was , if anything , too keen a scalpel — its cuts so wafer-thin that the warm brain matter seemed to seal together again as if glued . |
| 22 | Collins warned that while the company has initiated trials with rodents and primates , clinical trials will not be conducted for some time . |
| 23 | In a subsequent interview reported on March 3 , Wörner stressed that while a neutral Germany was not acceptable to the Western alliance , " the interests of the Soviet Union must be guaranteed " . |
| 24 | He stressed that while the world population continued to increase by some 80,000,000 people a year , adequate nutrition was likely to remain a key problem . |
| 25 | The Israeli government insisted that while the Palestinian representatives should be drawn from the occupied territories rather than the Palestinian " diaspora " ( a term which included those who in 1948 had left what was then Palestine , and their descendants ) , they should not be residents of Jerusalem ( as were both Husseini and Ashrawi ) . |
| 26 | However , Botha later insisted that while the government welcomed fact-finding missions from all over the world , the Security Council " could not take over the job of the government " . |
| 27 | Similarly , Shenfield , relying entirely upon Parish and Peacock for her calculations , asserted that while the number of old people rose by two-and-a-half times between 1910 and 1954 , the proportion of the national income transferred to the elderly during the same period had quadrupled ( Shenfield 1957 ) . |
| 28 | He said that while no dates had been decided , the two sides had discussed a timetable for the installation of an interim government of national unity . |
| 29 | But Mr Pannone said that while the Director of Public Prosecutions had decided eventually to prosecute P & O European Ferries and directors and employees over the Herald of Free Enterprise tragedy , he had decided against prosecutions over the King 's Cross fire . |
| 30 | Mr Scrivener said that while the council did have the right to take out interest-rate swaps for debt management , other types of transaction were ultra vires . |