Example sentences of "while [adj] have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the past few years I have read a great deal of specifically Christian literature in the field of economics and I have been impressed by one thing : while much has been said about the immorality of the modern corporation and the injustice of the structures of international trade and while a little has been said , especially in North America , about the role of government and the need for proper control of money and credit , very little has been written about trade unions . |
| 2 | While much has been written about the concentration of land and cattle-holdings , there is no information about who owns trees . |
| 3 | While much has been written about that industry as a whole , relatively little is known about the individual firms in it . |
| 4 | The general tenor of those reports is that while much has been achieved , a very great deal remains to be done . |
| 5 | White , in this issue , notes that while much has been achieved by deregulation in the US since the 1970s , regulation with anticompetitive effects remains common in the services sector , and much health-safety-environmental regulation is designed in a manner which gives an advantage to incumbent firms . |
| 6 | It says that , in that short space of time , 317 historic settlements had been affected , 241 heavily or lightly , while 76 had been destroyed or burned down ; 358 individual monuments registered or filed as cultural treasures , including 26 museums , seven archives and 13 library buildings , had been damaged . |
| 7 | Yet this is becoming increasingly difficult as the numbers of new council houses being built have been greatly reduced in recent years , while many have been sold off by Conservative councils . |
| 8 | By eight weeks , three patients had been withdrawn because of adverse drug side effects while four had been transferred to other medical treatment and two had undergone surgery because of increasing pain or ulcer size . |