Example sentences of "but while [noun prp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while Ireland did show up a number of flaws in the English team 's make-up , one game does n't make a tournament . |
| 2 | But while Whitehall changed from organizing public expenditure on an annual basis to a five-year rolling programme , the House of Commons was still authorizing expenditure on the old twelve-month pattern . |
| 3 | But while Carroll expects Cahill to make his presence felt , he is also determined to see a much more concerted effort from the Blues ' defence . |
| 4 | But while Underwood looks sure to take over from his retired brother , Rory , team manager Geoff Cooke warned : |
| 5 | But while Schumann lacked a reliable lower range to the voice , and frequented the upper reaches wherever possible , dame Isobel 's had far more substance , which ultimately gave her a wider range of songs to sing . |
| 6 | Both Paschero and Masi think that disorders in the spiritual sphere underlie all chronic conditions , but while Orthega argues that several different remedies may have to be used before the patient can be cured , treating each layer as it presents rather like peeling an onion , both Paschero and Masi advocate just one remedy for each patient and consider that the patient does not change the chronic remedy at all throughout life . |
| 7 | But while Mills put them ahead , the game was not safe until Tommy Wright 's clincher three minutes from time . |
| 8 | But while Stalin lived , Lysenko derived great power by espousing the politically seductive claim that characteristics acquired by one generation — in seeds and men — could be passed on to succeeding generations . |
| 9 | Shearer is in to stay , but while Taylor deliberates just who should be his partner up front Campbell plans to gate crash the party . |
| 10 | But while Corden thanked the loyal hard core , he did not criticise the floating fans . |
| 11 | They are now joint second with Torbrex , but the dark horses in the title race could yet be Edinburgh Civil Service who easily beat Touche Ross 4-1 with comparative ease but while Grange overcame bottom side Stepps 4-2 this was possibly their worst performance of the season . |
| 12 | But while Largent took 200 games to reach three figures , Rice managed it in only his 120th match , a 20-14 win against the Philadelphia Eagles . |
| 13 | But while Nicholas sits alongside undergraduates and gets to grips with computing , a row brews over his future . |
| 14 | But while Cavalcanti uses his traitor to question the existing social order , Powell-Pressburger's Thomas Colpepper remains the guardian of the best English traditions . |
| 15 | As a test of his strength Utnapishtim challenged him to stay awake for six days and seven nights — " But while Gilgamesh sat there resting on his haunches , a mist of sleep like soft wool teased from the fleece drifted over him , and Utnapishtim said to his wife , " Look at him now , the strong man who would have everlasting life , even now the mists of sleep are drifting over him . " " |
| 16 | But while Richard loves what he does , he does n't fancy it as a fulltime career . |
| 17 | But while Yorkshire fail on the field there will always be discontent , and Boycott , after a period in which he appeared to have submerged himself in a media career , may head the opposition once more . |
| 18 | But while Hollywood produces a lot of pap it can also stimulate those who have the courage to work against its constraints ( as Boorman once did ) . |
| 19 | But while Howard sits there , trying not to think about those 97,000 piled corpses , he apparently sits there thinking about coffee . |
| 20 | But while Stuart frets about first team football , Robert Fleck , also fed up , stays in the side . |
| 21 | But while Baur used these ideas of Hegel in this way , he criticised the master 's overall system as a new form of Gnosticism — the escape from history and its untidiness into an untroubled world of heavenly truth lying far beyond it . |
| 22 | But while Bush continues to campaign with country music stars , the spectre of John Major at a tarted-up hoe-down here remains elusive . |
| 23 | But while Dublin continues in a new partnership with Mark Hughes , Ferguson vows that there will be no sacrifice of United 's world famous attacking philosophy . |
| 24 | But while Godfrey-Isaacs exposes the wound she also sees the joke . |