Example sentences of "while [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | while helpless blood broke through the mattress . |
| 2 | Similarly , the prevention of further episodes of self-poisoning or self-injury continues to be a problem , and while retrospective investigations have given support to the policy of psychiatric intervention , prospective studies have failed to demonstrate any effect on repetition rates . |
| 3 | In the immediate post-conciliar phase ( 1966 – 7 ) , Rome remained not far off the avant-garde of progress , but once the first round of directives was complete and the curia firmly back in control , the conservative tendency regained the upper hand in the centre while progressive tendencies were still growing stronger in many a periphery . |
| 4 | The proponents agree that all large-screen receivers — 34″ and up — will incorporate a 60 frame per second 787.5 line or higher progressive scan display mode , while progressive display would initially be optional for smaller screen sets . |
| 5 | There is no more exacting a yardstick of free-market principles than the pop charts , where the successful bask unashamedly in the spotlight and conspicuously consume the fruits of their success , while scant sympathy is expended on the failures . |
| 6 | Hit by the effects of world recession , turnover in 1991 was 42% down on the previous year from £14.59 million to £8.3 million while interim figures were down 39% from £4.9 million in June ‘ 91 to £3 million in June ‘ 92 , resulting in a loss per share of 3.51p . |
| 7 | Spring bulbs can replace winter displays , while hanging baskets and summer flowering containers can be established early and introduced into the garden as the flowers are about to break . |
| 8 | For example , between 1973 and 1982 the retail price index rose 14 per cent more than freight tariffs and 32 per cent more than passenger fares ; while short-term efforts to restrain the deficit , such as the 1984 programme contract , led , as in BR , to restraints on capital expenditure , jeopardizing longer-term possibilities of reducing the deficit by means of cost-saving and revenue-attracting investments . |
| 9 | While short-term separation of parent and child under favourable circumstances is unlikely to be damaging to the child , long-term separations can have more serious effects , particularly when they occur in the first three to four years of the child 's life . |
| 10 | The government was planning an $8,000 million investment programme to double electricity-generating capacity over the next 10 years , while short-term measures to alleviate the problem involved importing movable power generators aboard floating barges . |
| 11 | A girl in an Edwardian dress stood by a vase of roses on an improbable Corinthian pedestal , while painted foliage drooped sentimentally across the background . |
| 12 | While Little Weirwold was returning to normality , events in the larger world continued to escalate . |
| 13 | It 's so quiet here , I suppose you usually go beddy-byes at 10 and Pete does the washing up while little wifey puts her feet up . |
| 14 | Roll-A-Joint has been disappointing this season and if he runs will be meeting Cool Ground on a stone worse terms , while Little Polveir is a stone better off with Cool Ground , who , at 10-1 , is the other each-way bet . |
| 15 | While little benefit is gained from the transformation in these trivial cases , great benefit accrues from transformation in more difficult cases where there is a more complicated network or input stimulus . |
| 16 | While little attempt was made to alter the character of the patchwork of health services available in the inter war period , all the parties that were to be involved in their transformation in the 1940s were beginning to examine the weaknesses of the existing provision and to formulate alternatives . |
| 17 | This is particularly well demonstrated in the experimental animal where the emigration of neutrophils through the intestinal mucosa in response to a luminal chemoattractand does not cause tissue damage while intracutaneous inoculation of the same substance does . |
| 18 | Some ( white ? ) people are drawn as ‘ stick ’ figures , while Aboriginal people are drawn as semi-circles . |
| 19 | Dover points out that while non-Mendelian segregation of single copy genes can accelerate the increase in the frequency of a favoured mutation , this process would not create the cohesive pattern of genetic change that occurs when similar processes operate within a gene family whose members are distributed on two or more chromosomes . |
| 20 | Prince William , 10 , chewed his lip anxiously while eight-year-old Harry stared wistfully ahead , dreaming of Christmases past . |
| 21 | They went into the season without their Australian pace pair , John Maguire and Rod McCurdy , who had played pivotal roles in their 1989–90 clean sweep , while dissatisfied South African opener mark Rushmere had to be persuaded to stay after being linked with a move to Western province . |
| 22 | A further 60 can be used but not sold , while 70 formulations are banned as originally planned . |
| 23 | So while differential wage rates might explain the preponderance of women in the Mauritius EPZ , they do not explain it in the Mexican maquilas ( in-bond factories ) . |
| 24 | Old beach ridges may indicate former limits of the delta , while differential compaction , the organic sediments being much more compressible than the mineral silts and sands , will almost certainly further confuse the pattern . |
| 25 | Backwardation or contango can be calculated using current market prices , while normal backwardation requires the use of the expected delivery price , which is not directly observable . |
| 26 | Strong fibres were weakened by touching while weak fibres were improved in strength if the surface were removed chemically . |
| 27 | Best lady angler was Mary Gavin Hughes , Newport , while ten-year-old Clinton McAndrew , Belmullet , had a specimen tub gurnard of 5.83lbs . |
| 28 | However , if a starfish approaches , queen scallops flap their shells and dance away , while spiny cockles extend their feet and flick themselves away . |
| 29 | Thus , aeromagnetic anomalies support models of about 160 kilometres of sinistral strike slip movement on the Great Glen Fault , while strong gravity gradients from the islands of Mull and Skye probably indicate an abrupt thickening of the Caledonian nappe pile as a result of thrusting . |
| 30 | We propose a model in which bleomycin cleavage is determined by local DNA structure , while strong binding requires the presence of a guanine residue . |