Example sentences of "[noun] whilst [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone laid a spear or a piece of wood at the top of the steps whilst the hospitaller was at his usual place at the far end of the parapet walk , near Salt Tower . ’ |
| 2 | Any who dare to question this are quickly dealt with by being accused of faithlessness , invoking that frighteningly powerful guilt feeling instilled into the human mind whilst the individual is still very young , and it is just this abuse of childhood which is so surely the primary cause of failure to reduce the constant renewal of the horrors of war . |
| 3 | Hundreds of people were there and I only saw the Queen at the beginning when she came out with Prince Philip and the Queen Mother and stood at the head of the terrace whilst a band played the National Anthem . |
| 4 | A euro-dollar deposit is a time deposit denominated in dollars in a bank branch ( US or non-US owned ) outside the United States whilst a euro-dollar loan is a dollar-denominated loan made by a bank branch outside the United States . |
| 5 | For the first few years the remands were unopposed , since it would plainly have been inappropriate to proceed against the applicant whilst the Carrian prosecution was still afoot . |
| 6 | Notice how the shoulders are parallel to the boom whilst the hips , knees and feet are all facing the direction of ‘ pull ’ , making for the most efficient sailing position . |
| 7 | In many word positions the overlap process was biased since the correct word appeared in the collocation dictionary whilst the alternative candidates did not . |
| 8 | Adenauer still emerged triumphant in the September 1961 election , but the CDU fell back to 45 per cent of the vote whilst the SPD advanced to 36 per cent and the FDP to 13 per cent . |
| 9 | Mr and Mrs Bloggs are expected to sit thumbing through the books whilst the teacher , seated at the front of the classroom , rapidly lectures another anxious parent . |
| 10 | On July 10 a White House spokeswoman , acknowledging that Thomas had taken " several puffs " of marijuana whilst a student , said that Bush considered such youthful experimentation as " inconsequential " . |
| 11 | One half handles negative going output signals whilst the other handles positive . |
| 12 | Hands clutched at my legs whilst the horse , thoroughly alarmed , reared , flailing his iron-shod hooves . |
| 13 | The Infinite Wheel present four UK harmonised house cuts loosely gathered together under the same title , the ‘ Dream Of Dreams ’ mix holding the dancefloor tactics whilst the epic and trippy ‘ Big Blue Mix ’ and ‘ Bay Of Rainbows ’ melt into each other to create a floaty yet still club-viable waxing . |
| 14 | Olwen drove , and evolved a schedule of visiting her numerous girlfriends or looking for bargains in the shops whilst the others pitched the local council or union . |
| 15 | The sky , grey and lowering , threatened more snow whilst the previous day 's fall carpeted the hedgerows and fields , choking the ditches and making the trackways slippery and dangerous . |
| 16 | Twenty-eight percent were putting off-farm income into the farm at the time of the interview whilst a further 28% said they would consider doing this in the future . |
| 17 | The main frame is constructed out of three shock corded poles which break down for convenient transportation whilst the dome itself fits away compactly . |
| 18 | Miss Fogerty sipped her tea whilst the headmistress read her correspondence . |
| 19 | You then go an make a cup of tea whilst the computer reads through all the files until it comes to the one you want . |
| 20 | The cashier should retain the credit card whilst the customer signs the sales voucher . |
| 21 | The Second-in-Command organised the company into the final order of march whilst the other commanders carried out final checks . |
| 22 | They laboured inside , trailing their horses by the reins , half of them fighting a ferocious rearguard battle whilst the grypesh massed within the gate and strove to win through to the courtyard beyond . |
| 23 | Corporal M and the escort start to off-load the equipment whilst the Captain speaks to the Incident Commander , an RUC Inspector , and the Cordon Commander , an Infantry Major . |
| 24 | For example Radium C " obliged after only a thousandth of a second whilst the not so different Thorium took , on average , ten thousand million years . |
| 25 | However , the usual arrangement is to combine the three time constants in a single network and the alternative types are shown in Fig 3 , two of which are suitable for a passive circuit whilst the others can be used in a feedback circuit because their impedance overall varies in accordance with the R.I.A.A. requirements . |
| 26 | The findings would support a conclusion that what helps carers most is the temporary removal of the sufferer from the home , either for day care or for temporary institutional care , rather than extra help in the home whilst the dementia sufferer is still there . |
| 27 | Its great round towers , the dancing outlines of precise yet beautiful Italian architecture , the splendid red spire of St Hubert 's Chapel , the great clock with dogs chasing a stag ; on the hour , the bark of the dogs accompanied each chime whilst the stag moved to sound the final chime . |
| 28 | Because the majority of college lecturers are probably afraid that they might lose their students if they abandoned lectures whilst the rest of their colleagues retained them as the primary teaching method . |
| 29 | Answer guide : The main differences between the models is that the engineer 's model is a physical model which generates automatic responses whilst the accountant 's model is dependent upon humans for corrective responses . |
| 30 | The nodes are numbered for reference whilst the dawg is under construction ( see figure 3.12 ) . |