Example sentences of "while by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main sectors to be supported are tourism , fishing and manufacturing ; between 1965 and 1974 , each of these was allocated about £5–6 million , while by contrast , only about £2 million was spent on agricultural projects ( Gilg 1976 ) . |
| 2 | Among these is Serial Killer , E4 6a , which climbs an overhanging corner on the seaward face of the island , while By Stealth , E3 6a , takes the smooth wallright of Lucozade . |
| 3 | The Dwarfs are forced to watch the number of beard scalps grow day by day , while by night the pounding war drums of the Night Goblins and the screaming of captives haunts their sleep . |
| 4 | Of the subsequent actions around Ukhrul , Sangshak and Litan , Field Marshal Slim later wrote : ‘ They resisted desperate night attacks which were closely supported by Japanese artillery , while by day snipers and shelling took their toll . |
| 5 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 6 | As her own people had done before their captivity , the newcomers laid petitions at the sorceress 's door , clandestinely , while by day the same Englishmen , from a safe distance , mocked and mimicked the bent hag and laughed loudly to show they were not afraid of her . |
| 7 | Its value for indicating the population composition of local areas towards the end of any decade is strictly limited , while by definition its value for monitoring change during the inter-censal period is nil . |