Example sentences of "and while [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And while support staff are adamant about the need for improvements in services and organisation , nobody believes the women would be better off returning to institutional care . |
| 2 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ The key to an improved trade performance lies in the competitiveness of our products — and the signs are encouraging : earnings are now growing more slowly than at any time for 25 years ; labour productivity has been rising rapidly , and while unit wage costs in manufacturing have been rising in Japan and Germany , here they showed no increase at all during 1992 . |
| 3 | And while nerd , goon , clot and spongecake are all there , there is no room , not a jot for phrases bandied about every night in North-East pubs . |
| 4 | Mandy brought out a make-up box , and while Charity squirmed and complained she dusted on eyeshadow and mascara and blusher and lipstick . |
| 5 | And while glamour should not , she suggests , be a requisite for a first wife , a caricature of glamour is an asset for a first novelist . |
| 6 | That 's what you look for , you see , you look for corcus races really and while conflict is perfectly real , and no question of that , but it tremendously easily becomes pathological and gets out of hand and a good deal of social organization consists really and how do you erm in a sense how do you keep people and societies from falling over these cliffs ? |
| 7 | An individual 's diet may vary for many reasons and while starvation is unusual in the Western world because of the availability of food , it is still possible for people in the West to suffer from inadequate nutrition . |
| 8 | The provision of health services for homeless families living in lodgings or hotel accommodation is a task for local GPs , health visitors and other members of the primary care team , and while depression , anxiety and emotional disorders are common , few require the services of the specialist mental health services . |
| 9 | And while work and study in all disciplines can range from the routinely normal through the critical and reflexive to the philosophical , philosophy exists as a distinct field of concerns . |
| 10 | And while relief surged through her that this kind stranger was , by the look of it , offering to give her a lift back to her hotel , he turned to the mechanic , gave him some instruction and , turning back , informed her , ‘ They 'll get the part as quickly as they can , but in the meantime we will have to leave your vehicle here . ’ |
| 11 | And while sex can be the most relaxing experience , with the right partner , the thought of performing is sometimes incredibly stressful . |
| 12 | And while revolution continued to feature in the magazine — the more parochial Diggers got an outing in the February issue — by that month the caravan had moved on , rather unsteadily to a ‘ Flying saucers issue ’ , where , with some difficulty , Lenin was dragged in for his views . |
| 13 | Within the space of only eight years , although desperately ill and while painting and illustrating as well , he completed some sixty short stories , all later published posthumously , three novels , and a quarter of a million words of journals . |
| 14 | Case management , as defined and practised originally , developed as a service system response to the co-ordination of care , and while judgement of its value in other terms is not entirely inappropriate , it should be assessed in terms of its purpose , goals , and effectiveness , not in terms of its capacity to meet requirements projected on to it by others . |
| 15 | And while cambric for the fashioning of chemises was one thing , costly brown satin from China must surely be another ? |
| 16 | It has n't been an easy time , even for the professions , and while law firms have had to cut back on staffing , they face having to get more out of the personnel they have left in terms of client service . |
| 17 | And while pollution incidents for 1991-92 reached an all-time high of 29,524 ( National River Authority figures ) , there were a meagre 536 prosecutions . |
| 18 | Suddenly , people were suggesting charity records for every tragedy that occurred , and while money was raised for worthwhile causes , such as the survivors of the Bradford City fire or the sunken Herald Of Free Enterprise ferry , one only had to look at the ropier ideas for fund-raising to question the motives involved . |
| 19 | And while profit performance remains poor , few pundits were willing to suggest a likely predator . |
| 20 | It 's a comfortable car to drive , assisted by power steering , and while leg-room in the back is just about adequate the low roof can prove irritating for tall rear seat passengers . |
| 21 | High dietary concentrations or iron , for example , reduce the percentage of iron absorbed from the bowel , and while zinc , copper , and iron reduce the absorption of each other , recent work suggests that sodium , calcium , and magnesium may promote the absorption of some trace metals . |
| 22 | And while promotion is the priority , he knows how important the Cup is to the Tyneside club , who have triumphed twice at Twickenham . |
| 23 | He was in fact close-fisted , and while listening had worked out in his mind that he need not consider paying a music-master if this young man should be eager and available . |
| 24 | And while food lasts , and after it is gone , |
| 25 | Whilst the country is still in a continuing and worsening economic depression , and while unemployment rises daily , we must be prepared to meet the challenge , must not miss the opportunities that undoubtedly will come our way . |
| 26 | Home ownership is high and while unemployment remains a factor , new developments have transformed parts of Stockton . |
| 27 | And while investment stopped growing , it remained at quite a high level . |
| 28 | Fonts are supplied in cartridges at specific sizes and while custom fonts can be obtained these tend to be expensive . |
| 29 | These high earnings , however confounded the directors , as he achieved them while the markets were quiet , and while business was usually slow , at a period when morale was low from the market crash a few months earlier . |
| 30 | And while Forest also bid to strengthen their defence , skipper and left-back Stuart Pearce is involved in a contract row . |