Example sentences of "[conj] while [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tends to ponder on such weighty matters in the bath or while gardening . |
| 2 | Oxford University medical expert Dr Godfrey Fowler said Cherie 's addiction could have been caused by Amanda smoking when pregnant or while breast feeding . |
| 3 | At the same time the children are given mental exercises through amusing riddles and puzzles which are told only in the evenings after meals , or while food is being cooked . [ … ] |
| 4 | Nevertheless , from my point of view , by far the greater part of this material is completely misleading because it fails to take account of the fact that while kinship words in most European languages are applied , with rare exceptions , only to relationships within the private domain and thus have quite specific meanings , the corresponding words in most other languages are highly polysemic . |
| 5 | The experiment thus suggests that while alpha males can trade on their superior competitive ability to obtain mates , subordinates may have to wheedle their way into favour . |
| 6 | The evidence of this study indicates that while simplicity in initiating proceedings , informality in surroundings , and procedural flexibility are valuable qualities worthy of preservation , they should not be used as a justification for denying the contribution that representation makes to tribunal decision-making processes , nor the need of appellants to have cases advocated on their behalf . |
| 7 | In his half-yearly report to Congress on Feb. 21 Greenspan reported guarded optimism about avoiding recession , but he reaffirmed that while concern for inflation persisted interest rates would remain high . |
| 8 | Having experimented with parallel scalar and parallel vector processing , and straight vector processing , the company concludes that while vector parallel processing is very efficient over a wide range of applications , conventional vector machines offer superior performance for many applications , so the company will continue to develop its USL SVR4-based Unix , UXP/M and proprietary MSP-based VP and VPX machines . |
| 9 | The anonymous author goes on to say that while Vial was not a highly educated veterinarian , even for those times , he was far in advance of the general practitioner in this country , who had usually no training whatever in anatomy or medicine . |
| 10 | This may account for the fact that while recall is almost uniformly greater for schema-consistent information , recognition results have been markedly more mixed ( Brewer & Nakamura , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | But , in fact , the tables in the report show that while leukaemia rates for 1951–58 were 83 per cent of the national average , in the period 1971–1978 they had risen to 100 per cent . |
| 12 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 13 | If we were to express the interrelation of identity and participation in classical Hindu terminology we might say that while knowledge , jñāna , leads to action , karma , it is equally true that action leads to knowledge . |
| 14 | All of this suggests that while love is centred on feelings for another person , feelings for the self are never absent . |
| 15 | Pace , in a cogent criticism of Parker J. 's judgment , argues that while consistency in the law may have its merits , there are limits to the extent to which it should be pursued : |
| 16 | It is tempting to put this all down to a simple lexical ambiguity , but we should not do so before remarking that while question ( 44 ) can correspond to either version , ( 45 ) can only match the " unacquainted " version . |
| 17 | The authors postulated that while histamine 2 receptor blockade decreased T cell suppression , stimulation of histamine 1 receptor by histamine increased vascular permeability and enhanced intraumoral penetration of humoral and cellular elements of the immune response . |
| 18 | The evidence from the case studies suggests that while change will occur it will only be at the margins , but this may be enough to achieve significant behavioural change in service providers . |
| 19 | It would be reasonable to suggest that while word stress was independent of intonation , the placement of tonic stress was a function ( the accentual function ) of intonation . |
| 20 | So far , we have seen that while physics was viewed by students as exciting and forward-looking , in practice the teaching tended to be conventional and hierarchical , very much like school , with students being given a body of information to absorb . |
| 21 | Mr Parker added that while TV might have been substituted for the Beano and the Dandy , perennial favourite authors , such as Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl , were still very important to young people in Ulster . |
| 22 | It advised children on the ease of getting gonorrhoea , but said that while syphilis was more fun , it was more difficult to get . |
| 23 | It is a paradox that while sex crimes are popularly abhorred little action is taken against the majority of offenders . |
| 24 | It is clear from this excavation that while stratigraphy can be used for dating — for example , the modern concrete and brick structures are above the earlier levels — it has to be used very carefully , since many features cut deeply into layers below . |
| 25 | No , were , were staying put , because I think that while mum wo n't . |
| 26 | Lord Cullen heard an allegation that while chairman of Falkirk before being removed from the post last May , Hamish Deans had behaved in an overbearing and dictatorial manner . |
| 27 | This meant that while criticism was encouraged — often in the form of parody or satire - , innovation was kept to a minimum . |
| 28 | It should however be noted that while profit maximization is not regarded as a goal , it is accepted in managerial theories that there is a profits constraint , either because a minimum level of profitability is a condition of survival of the enterprise , or to necessary to protect management from loss of office through take-over . |
| 29 | Describing conventional education as a ‘ conveyor belt ’ and noting ‘ the dullness of the eldest pupils compared with the brightness and self-sufficiency of the infants ’ , Denys Thompson of the Scrutiny group thought in 1932 that while education was ‘ very busy mass-producing interchangeable little components for the industrial machine ’ the concern of education ‘ should be to turn out ‘ misfits ’ ’ , not spare parts ' . |
| 30 | Ltd. v. Texas Commerce International Bank Ltd. ( below , p. 262 ) , continued : These citations demonstrate that while consideration remains a fundamental requirement before a contract not under seal can be enforced , the policy of the law in its search to do justice between the parties has developed considerably since the early nineteenth century when Stilk v. Myrick was decided by Lord Ellenborough C.J. In the late twentieth century I do not believe that the rigid approach to the concept of consideration to be found in Stilk v. Myrick is either necessary or desirable . |