Example sentences of "while in " in BNC.
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| 1 | While in Stratford she also played Jessica in The Merchant of Venice and Moth in Love 's Labours Lost . |
| 2 | While in the last century there was still some attempt to embrace all people in Ireland as the Irish nation , now the nation subsists in the Irish catholic population . |
| 3 | As did the House Manager who roamed throughout performances in the foyer or the staircases , the bars of Stalls , Dress Circle and Upper Circle , keeping an eye on programme girls ( most of them certainly mature ) who , in their black dresses and little aprons , ushered , sold programmes and in the intervals brought trays of tea and biscuits ( coffee in the evenings ) , while in the orchestra pit the band ( tuxedoed , although who knew whether their trousers matched ) played pleasing music . |
| 4 | Sir Kenneth Newman — then commandant — suggests that the book 's claim to attention is that its contents are contributed by insiders ; while in their introduction , the authors claim it goes some way to challenging Holdaway 's claim ( 1979 ) that ‘ research from the Police Staff College has not resulted in a major project on the police ’ . |
| 5 | I had always had someone to go round with , while in Europe , or in America ; and good company , any company , can make an enormous difference to one 's perception of whatever one happens to be perceiving . |
| 6 | In some types of wood the grain markings are indistinct , while in others they are well-defined . |
| 7 | The community charge ( often called the poll tax ) is the system of payment towards local government services in England , Scotland and Wales , while in Northern Ireland the rates are still in place . |
| 8 | Marketing too underwent a revolution ; old names — the ‘ Tournament ’ at Paddington , the ‘ Golden Frame ’ at Sheffield — were out , while in came the snappy new ‘ Quicksnack ’ or ‘ Station Tavern ’ that proudly proclaimed a new image nationwide . |
| 9 | The same month saw the end of the Brechin line while in 1982 the Forfar service ceased in June . |
| 10 | But because of the flexible nature of plastic , correct support is vital so the bath can not move while in use . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the 50Hz or 60Hz frequencies , relating to the two-pole magnetising rotor fields on synchronous alternators ( running at a speed of 3,000 or 3,600 rpm ) , happen to be close to the frequency at which ions in bodies respond to , while in 50µT of the geomagnetic field . |
| 12 | Britain probably made the greatest contribution in literature and science , Germany certainly in music , while in the late nineteenth century , France dominated the world of painting . |
| 13 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 14 | Disney initially claimed the vultures died while in a holding shed in which the ventilation system failed . |
| 15 | ‘ Almost like old times , Denis , ’ as a happily departing season-ticket holder remarked to Mr Law of the BBC , while in the directors ' box Mr Boycott , a guest of Brian Clough , was unsure whether to smile for his friend or sigh for his county . |
| 16 | The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four . |
| 17 | More demonstrations and clashes , although less violent , followed on Thursday night , while in Magdeburg , police broke up a silent march of some 500 people through the city following a prayer meeting in the cathedral . |
| 18 | In a memorable set of class assumptions , the Labour leaflet looks at how many people go to opera , jazz and West End theatres , while in the message to Tories only opera remains . |
| 19 | Wood and the RFU are adamant that the game should remain amateur , while in South Africa it appears that contingency plans are already afoot to buy the Springboks out of isolation . |
| 20 | News Corporation shares shed 55 cents to close at A$15.9 , while in London the shares of the News International subsidiary fell 21p to 352p . |
| 21 | In nine the SLD scored the higher number of votes , while in two the Greens did better . |
| 22 | In Northern Ireland 's divided society therefore , community policing has both a specific and a general meaning , for in one sense it focuses narrowly on overcoming Catholic hostility to the police , while in another the ‘ community ’ which is addressed is defined more broadly to encompass all residents in the province , although often these two aspects intermingle . |
| 23 | While in the big house , I had a look at my bagpipes . |
| 24 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher claimed to have read Hayek 's Road to Serfdom while she was still a student at Somerville College , Oxford , just after the war ; but it was not until the 1970s , while in opposition , that she seems to have read Hayek 's writings more generally . |
| 26 | It is a tale full of interest , and it reveals an attitude to work and to the Service that makes pleasant reading ( unhappily some authors give the impression they had a less than fulfilling time while in the RAF ) . |
| 27 | I attribute that fact , rightly or wrongly , to the realisation of everyone who occupies that position that , while in every other direction insistent and vocal public and professional demand keeps up a constant pressure for expansion and improvement , it is frequently only his own influence and authority which will be exerted to redress the balance . |
| 28 | While in 1920–1 Eliot admired both Edward Wadsworth 's drawings of industrial landscapes and Picasso 's primitivism , he found himself living the life of Thomson or of the city clerks he had read about in Conan Doyle , Davidson , Conrad , and elsewhere . |
| 29 | Their hats sailed up , whirling black against the screen , as the dust rose from the red plush seating , while in the back rows the disapproving dentist 's wife , would shake their heads and tut tut at the rowdies down front . |
| 30 | In early societies relationships between people are governed by such things as their gender , their age , and their family relationships ( these Maine called status relations ) , while in more advanced societies they are governed by contractual arrangements which are not concerned with the status of those involved , but only with the matter which brings the individuals together . |