Example sentences of "while [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post-landing checks while taxying required little other than switching off lights and radios . |
| 2 | , While taxying on aircraft it is inadvisable to use carburettor hot air . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the structural failure in flight of a privately owned light aircraft of a type that is extensively used , possibly all over the world , must justify an investigation in depth while a four engined airliner carrying 400 passengers damaging its wing-tip on a passenger terminal building while taxying need not rate so highly . |
| 4 | Aleksandr Nikitenko spoke for many intellectuals when , in 1852 , he privately advised people who thought for themselves " to completely scorn this stupid nonsense , this contemporary life , while consoling yourself ( if you can ) with faith in a brighter future " . |
| 5 | While underlining the right of the East Germans to opt for unity with their fellow Germans in the Federal Republic , Dr Kohl said this was a matter for their own free choice . |
| 6 | His century , the slowest ever for Australia , almost endorsed the selectors ' view that he had no part in the one-day side , while underlining what truly Test calibre he was . |
| 7 | Writers like Maudsley and Spitzka represent a form of scientific morality which simultaneously reinforces and promises to alleviate parental sexual anxieties , while underlining parental authority within the middle-class family against the demands of adolescent youth for sexual and personal autonomy . |
| 8 | Penelope Randall-Davies was a suitably alarming Queen of Night , while Neill Archer succeeded admirably in keeping the rather squeaky-clean Tamino on the right side of prim , while underlining his virtue . |
| 9 | In what is regarded as a make-or-break move for his political career , Mr Lamont will set out to demonstrate a clear route out of recession while underlining the Government 's clamp on public spending . |
| 10 | While accepting that smacking is universal , he believes there are better methods of teaching children what is acceptable or unacceptable behaviour . |
| 11 | While accepting that wage cuts were theoretically advisable , Keynes at first argued that they should only be attempted as a last resort , after all other remedies had failed . |
| 12 | They all like the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe , while accepting its limitations . |
| 13 | Berkeley 's desire to support non-sceptical common sense , while accepting from the philosophers something common sense would not , gives an awkward complexity to what he says . |
| 14 | Yet , while accepting that the working class was wedded to the Labour Party it should not be ignored that such support was also nurtured by a much improved Labour organization , despite Howard 's contrary view . |
| 15 | If the sole intention of the Association were to secure civil rights for Ulster Catholics while accepting and loyally supporting the constitution of the Ulster state … why has it admitted to its counsels and membership , as it undoubtedly has , a number of men from an organisation pledged to the destruction of that state ? |
| 16 | Where the late Victorian perception of youth emphasized their social identity — religion , leisure , discipline , character — the Edwardian perception , while accepting the significance of the social ( and elaborating upon it ) , in addition gave working-class youth an economic identity which was important in itself , and as a conditioning factor in the development of the citizen . |
| 17 | The complaint of maladministration was not upheld , the Commissioner finding that the complainant 's grievance essentially turned around the meaning of the phrase ‘ best practicable means ’ the complainant being of the opinion that any emission of obnoxious odours provided grounds for legal proceedings , whereas the Health and Safety Executive , while accepting there was an occasional emission which produced some slight smell , did not consider that this constituted an offence . |
| 18 | In some countries the dairy producers have taken a comparable line , and manage to live profitably while accepting the growing evidence against high-fat diets in general and saturates in particular . |
| 19 | Searle asserts this , while accepting that we are machines . |
| 20 | It is possible to make some observations of the law relating to obscenity and indecency which indicate that , while accepting that one ought to be guided by the rule of law in censorship matters , one would be better advised to come to decisions without reference to this or that piece of obscenity or indecency legislation . |
| 21 | SERPLAN 's analysis , while accepting that the tunnel itself would produce only modest effects in the South East , states that ‘ a combination of Single European Market , the Tunnel and its associated infrastructure , the introduction of new methods of production , and overall trends within the British economy could lead to significantly higher levels of economic activity in the region ’ . |
| 22 | His group backed in particular an immediate ban on exports to the Third World — ‘ while accepting our moral responsibility … to take back some of that waste so that it can be recycled or dealt with in an environmentally friendly way which is not possible in the Third World ’ . |
| 23 | So the sportsman takes the view that the rabbit is a worthy member of the wildlife community , while accepting that most farmers , perfectly understandably , take another view . |
| 24 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |
| 25 | While accepting that there may be cross-subsidy within the AOC charges scheme ( figures for 1990/91 appear to show that 32 operators of aircraft weighing over fifteen tonnes accounted for 59 per cent of CAA regulatory effort but provided 96.12 per cent of AOC income ) , GAMTA says : ‘ In that financial year the cost of running the AOC Charge Scheme was £21 million . |
| 26 | While accepting that this defence was permissible , the Special Commissioner concluded that the notice was valid . |
| 27 | She ordered tens of thousands of dollars worth of unneeded official china , while accepting ‘ freebie ’ designer clothes . |
| 28 | It may be possible , while accepting the underlying general principle , to argue against its applicability to nuclear weapons : for instance , by saying that a nuclear bomb is not a chemical weapon as such , the poison gas being a mere incidental by-product ; or to go back to the fundamental prohibition of ‘ weapons that cause unnecessary suffering ’ and argue that the suffering caused by a nuclear weapon is not disproportionate to its military effectiveness . |
| 29 | While accepting that if national productivity increased at the then current rate and priority in the allocation of social expenditure was given to the elderly , the current pension-policies could be maintained , the Philips Committee stressed the magnitude of the commitments being entered into on behalf of future generations of taxpayers . |
| 30 | While accepting that Roman Catholicism contained many errors and abuses , they denied that the pope was the Antichrist and that it was impossible for Catholics to attain salvation . |