Example sentences of "while an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This theme is a useful one for assessing the quality of a critic 's writing , since it tempts the rash into speculation , while an impoverished eye will miss relevant and useful comparisons . |
| 2 | In a letter to the Irish premier in 1947 , while an extensive health bill was going through parliament , the bishops ‘ pointed out that to claim such powers for the public authority , without qualification , is entirely and directly contrary to Catholic teaching on the rights of the family , the Church in education , the rights of the medical profession and voluntary institutions ’ ( Irish Independent , 12 Apr. 1951 , quoted Whyte 1980 : 143 ) . |
| 3 | The ‘ merry-go-round ’ system which allows loading and discharge to take place while an entire train remains in motion has continued to form the mainstay of Railfreight Coal 's operations , and it is difficult to imagine a more efficient alternative . |
| 4 | Thus when we present an article on structured programming electronics , a proportion of our readership will relate the subject to their own interests while an equally large cross-section will simple regard its inclusion as a displacement of their own preoccupation . |
| 5 | Tied in with encouraging half year figures , Headland announced a £11m acquisition and its shares were temporarily suspended while an offer document is printed . |
| 6 | A SPANIARD defends his German Masters title this week , after being stung into winning last year when he was left out of the Suntory World Matchplay Championship , while an Australian plays here having sacrificed a lucrative place in this year 's matchplay event , writes Norman Dabrell from Stuttgart . |
| 7 | The launch of BSB , still scheduled for next spring , will be the true test of the Sky formula , while an advertising downturn would take away some of the very good margin the UK papers enjoy , especially The Sunday Times which is operating in an increasingly competitive Sunday market . |
| 8 | Next month she will have been locked up for 4 years without being charged or tried , while an examining magistrate struggles to assemble enough evidence to convict her of murdering first her husband and then her boyfriend . |
| 9 | His first important conservation scheme in Leeds was for the conversion of St Paul 's House , a Moorish-style Victorian warehouse in Park Square , which he designed while an Associate at Booth Shaw and Partners in 1970 . |
| 10 | The author of this memoir , while an undergraduate , once borrowed fourteen books about history from Edward Wynn and , on the way to return them , inadvertently dropped them all into the River Pem — and so is better placed than anyone to testify how good a man was Edward Wynn . |
| 11 | Ramsey lived in the rooms of the bishop 's chaplain at the Castle while an architect put in central heating and clothed the walls in lighter paper . |
| 12 | While an earlier generation of writers had noted this feature of the period , it was not until the recent work of Cairncross that the significance of this outflow was realized . |
| 13 | ( Fig. 2 ) While an injured man is tended in the foreground , the Dutch forces to the right kneel in homage before an allegorical tapestried portrait of Philip IV . |
| 14 | A plain flour and water dough will be referred to as ‘ pasta secca ’ while an egg pasta will be labelled as ‘ pasta all'uovo ’ . |
| 15 | Livingstone has conducted a weekly surgery and dealt with some 20,000 constituents ' queries while an MP . |
| 16 | Marshall smashed his racket against the wall , while an elated Nancarrow , who now meets top seed Jansher Khan , tossed his into the crowd . |
| 17 | While an outstretched palm is likely to result in instant dismissal , a deft manoeuvre with the help of a room key — ‘ Here is your key , sir , do have a pleasant stay ’ — is a different matter . |
| 18 | It is offering the excellent Peugeot diesel in the smaller Rover 200 range , while an improved and cleaner version of the Italian VM 2.5-litre turbo diesel , with 118 bhp , will be available shortly for the restyled Rover 800 . |
| 19 | Prosecutions for water pollution more than doubled between 1981 and 1988 , while an additional 40 beaches were found not to be complying with EC standards in 1990 — making a total of 20% of all British beaches . |
| 20 | The first small groups to be provided with pensions were the lower-paid naval warrant officers in 1672 , and soon afterwards customs officers ; while an Act of 1749 set up a scheme for master merchant mariners . |
| 21 | The Europeans all stand on the station veranda , while an African crowd stands outside the station beside the tracks . |
| 22 | Meanwhile , the Victoria and Albert Museum secured the agreement of the owners to the loan of the statue while an appeal was launched to raise funds to match the Getty offer of £7.6 million . |
| 23 | If the patient can not walk at all , you should have a special wheelchair for outdoor use ; while an indoor wheelchair has large back wheels and relatively thin tyres , the outdoor version may have four small wheels with thick fat tyres , which should be kept pumped up to the correct pressure . |
| 24 | While an industrial tribunal may err if it misinterprets these guidelines , the Employment Appeal Tribunal has emphasised that , for all the potential complexity , the assessment of compensation is inevitably a rough-and-ready exercise . |
| 25 | The leading conductor , when I came to CBR , was Percy Harvey , who held the baton on such shows as ‘ By the Sea ’ and ‘ Music From the Pacific ’ , while an Hungarian violinist from Budapest , Jean deRimanoczy , conducted a string orchestra in ‘ Music for Today ’ . |
| 26 | A commitment fee is payable on an unused facility until it is drawn-down by the borrower while an agent fee is payable to the agent bank . |
| 27 | For our purposes , the distinction could be that a diary is written at the time of the event , memoirs are a writer 's recollections of a particular period ( perhaps aided by diaries ) in which he was not necessarily the central character , while an autobiography is an attempt to give a systematic and chronological record of the author 's life , with himself at the centre of the story . |
| 28 | Personally , I did once use such a role , while an undergraduate , working in a factory on a vacation research project . |
| 29 | While an appeal is pending the notice will be ineffective becoming effective again if the appeal is dismissed or withdrawn . |
| 30 | Production was up around ten coaches , and eighty wagons were being manufactured , while an average of sixty carriage repairs were turned out weekly . |