Example sentences of "is while " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she shows how much fun the proper outdoor technique is for her — ‘ The ideal occasion for communing with nature … is while you 're peacefully sitting still . ’ |
| 2 | When she attends for the first time , she assesses the patient : if he is out of bed and eating his breakfast , for instance , she observes whether he can feed himself , or whether he needs help ; whether he has perceptual problems ; how good his balance is while he is sitting ; whether he is limited by spasticity ; what his posture is like ; and then whether he is capable of standing and walking . |
| 3 | It is while at an Instructor training course at the scouts ' Longbridge centre that they met the infamous Saun Baker and started to paddle with an informal group of Thames weir bashers . |
| 4 | The only way to dispose of these rabbits is while they are out on their feeding grounds . |
| 5 | King Alfred brought it into his translation of Boethius too , to explain why divine Providence does not affect free will : ‘ What we call God 's fore-thought and his Providence ’ , he wrote , ‘ is while it is there in His mind , before it gets done , while it 's still being thought ; but once it 's done , then we call it wyrd . |
| 6 | So far as one can judge , the women 's resistance movement was formed towards the end of June 1910 , that is while talks were still inconclusive , and before the events reported above led the management of Neill 's and Morrison & Gibb 's to sign the memorial . |
| 7 | They 'd have welcomed him because he is as he is while I was remote , cold . |
| 8 | That new settlement is while it 's within the Leeds district , is on the north eastern perimeter of that district . |
| 9 | It is while the caretaker was in the science and humanities wing he turned on the light which caused the college to explode . |
| 10 | Of the town 's three main candidates she said she had ‘ no idea ’ who Liberal Democrat Peter Bergg is while Labour 's Alan Milburn ‘ seems like a decent bloke ’ . |
| 11 | Applying Kirchhoff 's voltage and current laws respectively to the input and output circuits of figure 10.6(b) yields However , and so from equation ( 10.18 ) the small-signal current gain between input and output is while the input resistance presented to small signals is from equation ( 10.17 ) Making use of equation ( 10.19 ) , the latter becomes Proceeding further , the small-signal voltage gain between input and output is and , on substituting for and from equations ( 10.19 ) and ( 10.20 ) , it is seen that To obtain an expression for the output resistance , observe that in the input circuit Eliminating through equation ( 10.18 ) gives and rearranging this equation in the form establishes that the output resistance is |
| 12 | The result for n = 1 is found by letting n tend to unity which shows that the second term in the expression is while the first term is zero . |
| 13 | But actually in between , I 'd forgotten the in between bit of course is while all this pandemonium 's going on , the neighbourhood did n't realize she was moving , or perhaps one or two did . |