Example sentences of "of [noun] while [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I do n't see myself as a jack of all trades ; instead I believe that I am broadening my range of expertise while remaining a commercial lawyer . ’ |
| 2 | Sailing is becoming much more popular in the UK and from the USA comes a warning about personal standards of responsibility while enjoying water-related recreation . |
| 3 | On April 27 , George Brizan , hitherto Finance Minister , was appointed Minster of Agriculture while retaining responsibility for Trade , Industry , Production and Energy ; Tillman Thomas became the new Finance Minster and was replaced as Minister of Works , Communications and Public Utilities by the former Agriculture Minister Phinsley St Louis . |
| 4 | You might be interested to know that I first learnt of CPRW while rummaging through old papers left by the Misses Keating — and there were many ! |
| 5 | This leaves him free to concentrate on the creative side of cooking while maintaining effective management control . |
| 6 | It is now likely that a student will experience ballooning a number of times while learning and will have learned to avoid moving forwards on the stick automatically . |
| 7 | They are still being sued for £180,000 by a Los Angeles-based helipcoter firm for loss of income while assisting television coverage . |
| 8 | In all , 38 of the 150 Macdonald men were murdered , including McIan and his sons , and many more died of exposure while trying to escape in their nightclothes in the arctic conditions . |
| 9 | It had entered into these relationships with the new category of institutions while retaining its role for the validation of degree-level courses from whatever direction they might come outside the universities . |
| 10 | The Warsaw Convention , with all its amendments , protocols and variations , seeks to limit the liability of international air carriers to a specific sum of money while acknowledging the air carrier ( airline ) as the only party liable ; that is to say aircraft manufacturers , component manufacturers , pilots , engineers , air traffic controllers and governments who operate airports and navigation services are excluded from all liability unless negligence can be proved . |
| 11 | This year those brief moments of feeling , of affection while sharing the task of putting up the decorations , of humility while listening to carol-singers , of joy when waking on Christmas morning , this year these brief moments will spread and grow and shape themselves to fit the whole year , the whole of our life . |
| 12 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In a separate experiment they actually monitored the eye fixations of subjects while watching the slide and found that in the arousal condition subjects fixated more often on central details , though for less time per fixation . |
| 15 | For practical reasons , fieldworkers adopted a policy in these cases of knocking at the door of the nearest house of a similar type ; since the survey was based on geographical area and housing type , this seemed a reasonable way of obtaining data from a range of addresses while conserving time and resources . |
| 16 | And for people accompanued by small children , there is a unique automatic baby listening service to give them complete peace of mind while enjoying their stay . |
| 17 | ‘ But we could easily maintain our standard of living while using less electricity . |
| 18 | Althusser 's historical interest derives from the fact that he represents the only orthodox Marxist theorist who has tried to get out of Hegel while remaining a Marxist — though for many Marxists he did sacrifice Marxism in the process , which only suggests how closely Marxism and Hegelianism are intertwined . |
| 19 | A military member of the National Salvation Front also disclosed yesterday that ex-President Ceaucescu was captured at a roadblock north of Bucharest while trying to flee . |
| 20 | Others ask why the West responded to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait while failing to do anything about Israel 's occupation of Arab land . |
| 21 | A wide variety of things could be construed as ‘ approaching ’ violence but to use that expression while condemning the violence of the previous day and to do so in a critique of Paisley while failing to mention the Cromac Square rioters is to exaggerate . |
| 22 | Units need to be able to offer the highest standards of hygiene while maintaining a homely atmosphere . |
| 23 | I have already explained the use of long-nets while ferreting , but long-nets can also be set with advantage on rough pasture ground . |
| 24 | Their word-recognition skills are so finely developed that they may take insufficient notice of orthography while reading , and so develop poor memories of how words are constructed when it comes to spelling them . |
| 25 | British shoppers tend to be ruggedly self-sufficient ; Brooks Brothers customers usually want a great deal of help while selecting the exact same suit they have worn since their fathers first took them to the emporium . |
| 26 | At the same time , recall suppression was discovered when deaf subjects were instructed to hold blocks of wood while watching the presentation of items , in a way similar to suppression experienced by hearing people in tasks where they have a redundant phrase to say aloud at presentation . |
| 27 | All that remained for theory was to explore the details of determination while avoiding the tendency of bourgeois ideology to obscure determination by the material base . |
| 28 | He ordered Trent back from the handhold on the companionway so that he was safely out of range while untying the rope . |
| 29 | The liberal bourgeois ethic of the West is a force for alienation , ‘ bringing men and women into conflict with themselves and subjecting them to new forms of slavery while claiming to free them ’ . |
| 30 | Accordingly , when you have identified the areas in common , and the divergences , between exam questions and essay topics of your own , you can draw appropriately on skills you have learnt in one kind of work while doing another . |