Example sentences of "while at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Except soldiers and airmen when on active service and mariners while at sea , no infant can dispose of his property by will . |
| 2 | The human losses mounted rapidly , and the extension of recruitment to those just eighteen years old and those already forty-five extended the worries about loved ones at the Front into almost every family , while at home their losses to farming and industry had to be made good , as far as possible , with more prisoners-of-war and ‘ foreign workers ’ . |
| 3 | Maintaining safety in relation to medications is a personal responsibility while at home . |
| 4 | It was always intended that single men would have their pension rights protected while at home looking after children or dependent relatives , but it was not until the regulations were published in January 1978 that it was clear that married men would be included . |
| 5 | For she found herself incapable of struggling against it , as others did ; while at home , she made no efforts to alleviate her lot . |
| 6 | In foreign affairs , his first priority was to end the Vietnam War , while at home he made a frank appeal to what came to be called " middle america " : the " good , decent , tax-paying , law-abiding people , the forgotten Americans " . |
| 7 | It was absurd that Norman Ward Westerman and Lord Boddy should listen with real deference to his views on Halifax , while at home he could n't even get a hearing from his own wife . |
| 8 | In public , people tried to carry on with their lives , while at home they were starting to prepare for what was to come . |
| 9 | • Voluntary work you may have done while at home will be prized by an employer . |
| 10 | He continued his education at the Shrewsbury Technical School until 1911 , while at home he emerged as a votary of John Keats [ q.v. ] and a model of Christian piety . |
| 11 | But if the woman cotton worker were married to a miner or an engineer , then the husband usually refused to do housework , his substantially higher earnings gave him breadwinner status and , notwithstanding his wife 's employment , the right to leisure while at home . |
| 12 | Firms of English solicitors are to be found all over the world , while at home , complex legislation , the increasing need for financial services and growing domestic demand has led to a growth in the need for solicitors . |
| 13 | Lochhead 's script is a joy , depicting through its energetic vernacular dialogue the texture of small-town Scottish life in the period , when girls carried bottles of Evening in Paris in their knickers and were in love with Montgomery Clift ; when the pictures cost 1/9d and the Locarno Ballroom on Sauchiehall Street was the place to be on a Saturday night , while at home fathers sat taciturn in armchairs , not listening to their wives . |
| 14 | In sport , India will play England in a one-day cricket international in Bangalore on Friday , while at home there are important Scottish Premier League matches involving clubs at the top and bottom of the league . |
| 15 | In Herefordshire he was a JP and several times a commissioner to investigate disturbances , while at court he was entrusted , among other responsibilities , with a number of diplomatic missions . |
| 16 | She says that changing her accent while at university was not easy for her parents to accept . |
| 17 | John Fowles , a student of French literature while at university , talks in The French Lieutenant 's Woman of ‘ the lessons of existentialist philosophy ’ ( Fowles 1969 and 1977 : 63 ) and of working in ‘ the age of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes … the theoreticians of the nouveau roman ’ ( p. 188 ) . |
| 18 | Gedge continued to reach for his guitar while at university and drifted in and out of various lineups . |
| 19 | Once while at University he was bored with a rugby injury so he borrowed a comrade 's marathon number from an injured friend and completed the 90km race in 8–1/2 hours . |
| 20 | While at University Glass 's musical taste was somewhat surprising . |
| 21 | She was converted to pacifism by the Quaker Hilda Clark , while at university during the Boer war . |
| 22 | Her own son , now an engineer with an oil company in the States , had back-packed round Europe while at university and she remembered his homecoming , his hair bleached by the sun , seemingly taller and more mature , full of tales of the people he had met along the way . |
| 23 | While at university , Alison had the chance to go to America during the first summer vacation with BUNAC — British Universities North America Club . |
| 24 | He reckons that ‘ at times , some players coast , while at Test level , in a pressurised atmosphere , players pull out the stops 100% for all five days . |
| 25 | Lee Ernshaw freed René at the Cheesewring at E4 6a , and at Dodman Point climbed the slab right of Spitting Images to produce In God We Trust , E3 5b , while at Compass Point , The Second Coming ( it 's really that good Lee ? ) , |
| 26 | When the press noted the change in tone , Hitler agreed that he had altered his stance , but only to the extent , he said , that he had earlier been too mild , and had realized while at work on Mein Kampf that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was one not solely for the German people , but for all peoples , ‘ for Juda is the world plague ’ . |
| 27 | It is perhaps not too surprising that staff in the diplomatic corps and in government intelligence agencies are targets for violence while engaged in their daily work , but it is relatively recent in the UK , for example , to have an estate agent , a social worker , and a health visitor murdered while at work ( Smith , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every employee while at work — |
| 29 | The consequence is that most single parents , who have to pay someone to look after their children while at work , are now worse off if they continue part-time work , and the number of single parents in work is likely to drop dramatically because of this change . |
| 30 | While at work he is still aware of the extent to which mechanization has improved his working conditions , and his relationship with his employer generally remains a good one . |