Example sentences of "while the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage is that the cover can be pushed to one side with a net handle or broomstick , then slid back again , while the pondkeeper remains dry and in full possession of his sanity . |
| 2 | Because he concentrated on a single target while the Russians played their world-wide game , they sometimes failed to notice where he was pulling their fingers . |
| 3 | The Poles stood with their capital at their backs while the Russians prepared for the assault that would end the war . |
| 4 | While the Russians kept their side of the bargain by pulling out , the Pakistanis and the Americans took no notice of the UN agreement and continued to send in arms . |
| 5 | The other bodyguard was being kept out of sight while the Russians decided what to do . |
| 6 | However , the challenge was bound to be more difficult for the Americans to handle , since they opposed drastic change while the Russians desired it . |
| 7 | All Soviet technicians were withdrawn ; trade between the two countries dropped off sharply ; and a series of hostile open letters was exchanged , the Chinese accusing the Russians of ‘ revisionism ’ while the Russians accused the Chinese of ‘ dogmatism ’ and ‘ splittism ’ ( or of attempting to break up the world communist movement ) . |
| 8 | Ladies ' K2 went to Portwich/Von Seck of Germany and the Germans also took the men 's K4 while the Russians took the C4 , a tight race considering it was a final with no preliminary rounds , 6 boats finishing in under 2.6 secs from the winners . |
| 9 | Trying to attract the readers from the quality market , while the broadsheet papers nibble at the middle ground . |
| 10 | While the ACP countries had sought an overall package totalling 15,500 million European currency units ( 1 ECU=USdollars 1.11661 as at Oct. 27 , 1989 ) over five years , the EC 's offer had stood at 10,800 million ECU when talks broke down on Oct. 30 . |
| 11 | The epithet most frequently applied to a dirty watercourse is ‘ fishless ’ , while the aristocrat of freshwater fish is also the least tolerant of pollution , hence a watercourse of very good quality is usually referred to as ‘ a trout stream ’ . |
| 12 | In a fifth instance , given in ex.5d , the cellos , again in the tenor clef , have the combined angular and linear theme the first with strokes , the second with dots while the basses , in bar 383 , give out the fourth of the five themes , with strokes in pure accentual meaning , as proved by the third minim that is tied to its neighbour . |
| 13 | For example , the vole Clethrionomys glareolus is under-represented in buzzard pellet assemblages because it favours microhabitats with thick vegetation while the buzzard concentrates on the more open parts of the environment ( Append . |
| 14 | However , the sparrow 's eye has double this density , while the buzzard 's retina contains an astounding 1 million per square millimetre . |
| 15 | While the branch line and the loco shed was working , a driver from the shed had unfortunately failed the railway doctor with defective colour vision and as a result had been relegated to fire-lighting and steam-raising duties . |
| 16 | Just as well , perhaps , for the coming of the railway around Morecambe Bay , ended Greenodd Port 's usefulness , and that of the Ulverston Canal ; while the branch line to Coniston in the 1860's put paid to the lake traffic . |
| 17 | What is clear is that if economic growth — which has already slowed down , particularly during the 1980s , in most of the industrial countries — continues to decline , while the claims of governments to legitimacy remain founded primarily upon their ability to promote such growth , then we can anticipate a period of increasing political instability and turbulence . |
| 18 | A chauffeur-driven Mercedes arrived at Waterloo to collect them for the agm at Skinners ' Hall but while the driver was searching the station his car was wheel-clamped . |
| 19 | A COMMUTER train was delayed while the driver plucked a pheasant on the platform , it was claimed last night . |
| 20 | Passenger pleasure comes from the outstandingly comfortable seats in a beautifully crafted cabin while the driver enjoys excellent control , great visibility and a superb instrument layout . |
| 21 | She sat dully in the cab while the driver talked non-stop about foreign tourists who would dominate his trade for a few more months to come . |
| 22 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 23 | was flashed to all mobile units across the city — with the added instruction that no attempt was to be made to stop the car while the driver 's life was being threatened . |
| 24 | While the driver runs his hands along our limbs looking for suspicious objects , Sergeant Kellard stands aside . |
| 25 | The car driver Brian Edward Boyle , 37 , of Howe Hill Close , Yafforth , Northallerton , died at the scene , while the driver of the minibus Gary Hutchinson , 25 , of Frederick Street , Meadowfield , died later in hospital . |
| 26 | Thieves helped themselves to a number of televisions off the back of a lorry parked at Woodside Cafe , at Knayton , near Thirsk , while the driver had his breakfast . |
| 27 | Two men entered the shop while the driver waited in the car . |
| 28 | Its set is a mechanised top hat , with road or river running round its rim , while the crown falls to become the countryside or corkscrews upwards to reveal the womblike houses of Rat , Mole , or Badger . |
| 29 | The development of the use greatly enhanced the landowner 's freedom of action , while the crown 's rights of wardship , escheat and relief were lost . |
| 30 | She is on police bail while the Crown Prosecution Service considers whether she should be charged with child abandonment . |