Example sentences of "while to " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the nineteenth century to be noticed was good fortune , while to be praised was a professional advantage . |
| 2 | The nearest island , Ramsey , is a nature reserve with superb seal and seabird colonies while to the south are the seabird islands of Skokholm and Skomer . |
| 3 | To A. M. Fairbairn , one had to visit America ‘ to discover how far we have travelled out of the darkness towards the light ’ , while to R. F. Horton , it was a land with ‘ truth open to all who have eyes to see it and those who have not eyes held in wholesome restraint from meddling with those who have ’ . |
| 4 | To the north the Franks and Lombards threatened , while to the east the Vandals and Huns were carrying out attacks with the violence with which their names are now synonymous . |
| 5 | From the east the Siberian pipeline has twice the capacity of the gas already contracted for , while to the north , Norway holds the largest North Sea gas reserves . |
| 6 | Boundedness is not necessarily a quality of the process of institution itself : the same process or institution will not be beyond the boundary to those who are a part of it ; to them , it will be a part of everyday experience , while to others , not a part of it , it will be beyond the boundaries of home-ground . |
| 7 | The smaller , vertical indicator column headed ‘ program ’ tells you which memory number is in use , while to its right sits the memory selector keypad . |
| 8 | Six push switches control patch changes , parameter edit , display select ( individual or performance ) , write ( storing patches ) and utility , while to the left of these are the guitar input and headphone output , each with their own level control . |
| 9 | The most you may be able to say at the end of it is that you ‘ gained understanding ’ ; to some of us that may be unsatisfactorily intangible , while to others it may be of profound significance . |
| 10 | Heading along the well-trodden path a tarn , Llyn y Fan fawr , lies below , while to the east the distinctive summits of the Brecon Beacons loom . |
| 11 | While to some extent the harmful and the helpful beings in the Chewong universe can be thought of as opposed , they do not fall into neatly discernible complementary categories . |
| 12 | While to the latter the former seem to be living either in paradise or cloud-cuckoo-land . |
| 13 | Supalla and Newport ( 1978 ) maintain that nouns and verbs are separated by frequency of movement , but in BSL PILL has two movements while to TAKE-A-PILL has only one , but BRUSH has one movement while to BRUSH-UP or SWEEP has more than one ; this distinction , therefore , is not simple . |
| 14 | Supalla and Newport ( 1978 ) maintain that nouns and verbs are separated by frequency of movement , but in BSL PILL has two movements while to TAKE-A-PILL has only one , but BRUSH has one movement while to BRUSH-UP or SWEEP has more than one ; this distinction , therefore , is not simple . |
| 15 | While to the north Brussels slept . |
| 16 | Off to Sharpe 's left , about a mile away he could see the roofs of two more farmhouses , while to his right the wood gave way to rolling cornfields intersected by a farm track that twisted between the crops . |
| 17 | Far ahead of Sharpe was the crossroads itself where the dark mass of fugitives was milling in confusion , while to the right , and acting somewhat as another bastion , was a smaller wood and a handful of cottages . |
| 18 | The main thesis of the attitudinist theory of ethics can now be expressed as the claim that the most general ethical words have a primarily valuational meaning , while to be properly ethical at all , a word must have a meaning which is partly valuational . |
| 19 | Across the canyon rose Illimani 's triple summit , glinting in the dawn light and far grander than in our tiny photo , while to the right the untold delights of the Cordillera Real began to unfold . |
| 20 | The French gave support to the Scots who , from very early on in the new reign , caused trouble in the north ; while to the west , in Wales , where Owain Glyn Dŵr was to rise against English rule in 1400 , French troops landed and at one time might have been seen in the Herefordshire countryside . |
| 21 | The amended view of Manhattan contains its eye-catching motifs : the Statue of Liberty has been conveniently relocated in a open space to the right of the UNO building , while to the left of UNO a scaled-down Eiffel Tower presides over East 42nd Street . |
| 22 | Below me were Ribblehead and the viaduct , while to my right was Ingleborough which for the first time in days looked fresh and green instead of glowering and grey . |
| 23 | Northward of Malham is the Tarn , while to the east lies the gorge of Gordale Scar . |
| 24 | The sky overhead was a cold , metallic blue , while to the north , above the mountains , storm clouds were gathering , black and dense , throwing the furthest peaks into an intense shadow . |
| 25 | To the south , beyond the darkness of Chung Hai , the ancient Mediterranean , glowed City Africa , its broad , elongated shape curving out of view , while to the east — separated from City Europe by the dark barrier of the East European Plantations — City Asia began , a vast glacier , stretching away into the cold heart of the immense land mass . |
| 26 | Thomas Good [ q.v. ] , master of Balliol , thought him ‘ one of the most pious ingenious men that ever I was acquainted with ’ , while to the anonymous friend who wrote a preface to A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation , he was ‘ a man of a cheerful and sprightly Temper … very affable and pleasant in his Conversation ’ , although he was so full of his vision of God 's love and man 's felicity that ‘ those that would converse with him , were forced to endure some discourse upon these subjects , whether they had any sense of Religion , or not . ’ |
| 27 | In the east his men were in position , awaiting only his order to attack the Plantations , while to the west he was building up a new shape seeking new allies among the elite of City North America . |
| 28 | A huge viewing screen filled the wall at the far end , while to one side , on a long , wide table made of real mahogany , a detailed map of City Europe was spread out , the Swiss Wilds and the Carpathians marked in red , like bloodstains on the white . |
| 29 | As Frances Power Cobbe observed , the doctor assumed a position of great importance in the middle class household and was indeed one of the very few men of her own class that the married middle class woman dealt with directly ; while to doctors , middle class female patients represented a lucrative source of income . |
| 30 | And while to a certain extent the chairman was right that the aesthetic of art was being eroded , nonetheless a whole infrastructure of artists and those who dealt with them was being maintained and subsidized , thus providing creative freedom . |