Example sentences of "while [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The document suggested that every school has a common aim , that of helping children ‘ to meet the basic academic and social demands of adult life ’ while allowing for the unique differences that exist between child and child . |
| 2 | In all large companies there is a lot of comfort derived from administrative systems that purport to be ‘ fair ’ but in reality remove from individual managers the responsibility of trying to reward and administer people 's careers while allowing for differences which are immeasurable in quantitative terms . |
| 3 | However , most of the literature does not satisfactorily account for the simultaneous determination of wages and membership while allowing for the interaction between the free rider problem and workers ' tastes . |
| 4 | India supports the Kabul government , much to the annoyance of Pakistan and most western countries ; but while allowing for the mischievous nature of Mr Gandhi 's remark , they suspect that it is no more than the truth . |
| 5 | Gregory sees her as the prime mover in this , while allowing for the importance of divine intervention in Clovis 's victory against the Alamans . |
| 6 | Our assistance breaks that barrier while allowing for the funds to come back to the Network when the company steps up production and is earning a return on its investment . |
| 7 | I encountered an old lady of a more awkward sort while canvassing for the Tory candidate in Crosby — a by-election subsequently won for the SDP by Shirley Williams . |
| 8 | He and Gros pulled every string , while canvassing for suitable volunteers from the Foreign Legion and the Field Service . |
| 9 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 10 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 11 | " Every state " , wrote a historian at the end of the eighteenth century when such questions had lost much of their earlier emotional charge , " while contending for this high and delicate point , has brought forward every sort of argument , however weighty , or however trivial , which could apply exclusively to itself " . |
| 12 | Where courses are offered at only one teaching centre , it would be possible to make significant progress by initially devolving responsibility for assessment only to the college , while maintaining for the time being central control of the course content . |
| 13 | Specific offline requests from LIFESPAN users are included while checking for the limit having been reached . ) |
| 14 | We saw several cuberow , usually in pairs , while hunting for nyala . |
| 15 | While urging for a change in the terms of the debate , in the short-term fat women must argue that to be both fat and beautiful is not a contradiction in terms , as part of the process of beginning to celebrate our sexuality . |
| 16 | While searching for prey , many dolphin species move in tight schools distributed over a large area , using sound to stay in contact and communicate with each other over significant distances . |
| 17 | A dolphin school will often divide up into subgroups while searching for food , which separate and spread out over a wide area of sea , still diving synchronously — evidence that they are probably in some form of acoustic contact . |
| 18 | While researching a book on the history of Arabia he was struck by the lack of early material , and while searching for place names of non-Arabic origin in a gazetteer recently produced in Riyadh , he found that nearly all the Biblical place names from the patriarchal period were concentrated in a small area of the Red Sea north of Yemen and far south of the traditional sites in Palestine . |
| 19 | During the day a Cant Z.501 flyingboat of the 184 a Squadriglia R.M. was also lost , apparently to Malta fighters , and probably while searching for the downed German aircrew ; the crew of this aircraft were rescued near the Sicilian coast . |
| 20 | As there is still a marked shortage of UK accountants with language abilities , it could be wise to take a crash course while searching for a new job . |
| 21 | For a few weeks , he drove a taxi while searching for a permanent appointment . |
| 22 | In 1868 Otto Wucherer found these microfilaria in the haematochylous urine of a Bahian patient in Salvador , Brazil , while searching for Schistosoma haematobium eggs . |
| 23 | The fishermen and their children have a habit of holding fish between their teeth to prevent their escape while searching for another . |
| 24 | While searching for the plants , I found many of the invertebrates . |
| 25 | She hesitated while searching for an answer that would not betray the fact that she longed to remain in Stella 's place but that she feared for her own emotional state . |
| 26 | The thieves have been forcing their way into the homes of elderly people , holding them down while searching for their savings . |
| 27 | But 70-year-old Mr Lowes , who unearthed the historic treasures while searching for lost tools on Home Farm , at Hoxne , Suffolk last November , is totally relaxed about the whole thing . |
| 28 | While training for preaching has happily improved since the Council , other factors have sadly hampered and slowed down the work of theological re-education . |
| 29 | A post mortem examination on an Oxford University student , who collapsed while training for next month 's boat race , has revealed he died fron natural causes . |
| 30 | Andrew Saxton and his colleague Andrew Davies faced a life ban after being found to have taken Clenbuterol while training for the games . |