Example sentences of "while [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loss of regular , bonus or overtime earnings while off work is recoverable . |
| 2 | I took her there myself while off duty after being injured by a faulty grenade . ’ |
| 3 | In his commendation , Chief Constable Keith Hellawell says : ‘ Detective Constable Turnbull is commended for acting in a highly-professional manner , displaying diligence and initiative while off duty . |
| 4 | While off medication , both subjects showed high levels of blood flow in anterior regions of the brain at the right side ; with stuttering controlled by haloperidol , the flow of blood was greater in the left hemisphere . |
| 5 | The products of all three genes are required for restriction [ 3 ] , while for modification only the products of genes hsdS and hsdM are needed [ 4 , 5 ] . |
| 6 | The relatively small £3 — £9 element gives these a pronounced urban flavour but , in contrast to the majority of little country towns , it was men worth upwards of £40 that were specially numerous , while for size and wealth the topmost class had no parallel outside London . |
| 7 | For example , only 10 per cent of vandalism and 12 per cent of theft from the person were estimated to be reported , while for burglary , the estimated percentage was 41 per cent and for motor vehicle theft 86 per cent ( Mayhew et al . |
| 8 | Studies of wheat , corn , orange juice and live and feeder cattle by Garbade and Silber ( 1983a ) , Covey and Bessler ( 1992 ) , Oellermann and Farris ( 1985 ) and Oellermann , Brorsen and Farris ( 1989 ) found that futures prices led spot prices ; while for oats and copper , there was no clear leader . |
| 9 | While for education there is a major department of state , the Department of Education and Sciences which is responsible for national policy and the relationship between the centre and the local authorities , the personal social services is only the smallest of the three policy concerns of the Department of Health and Social Security . |
| 10 | For bed a roadside ditch in the summer , a barn or hay-loft in the winter was all he sought , while for food and drink a farmer 's wife never begrudged him the plate of bread and potatoes washed down by a mug of tay . |
| 11 | Much of China goes on just the same , shrugging off time , while for Business Studies and Public Relations students life looks pretty rosy . |
| 12 | For ebulliometry , T , ΔH , and ΔT are the boiling temperature of the solvent , the enthalpy of vaporization of the solvent , and the elevation of the boiling temperature respectively , while for cryoscopy they represent the freezing temperature of the solvent , the enthalpy of fusion of the solvent , and the depression of the freezing temperature . |
| 13 | For the traditional ‘ act ’ utilitarianism acts are right because they maximise ( or at least increase ) welfare , while for rule utilitarianism rules are morally binding because general adherence to them maximises , or would maximise , welfare , individual acts being right or wrong in virtue of their conformity to such rules . |
| 14 | You may be getting a friend or neighbour , and handy some s social event they are planning be careful losing money or credit cards while out shopping , your interest can help you with your career , meeting this month may solve problems with high finance . |
| 15 | While of course the whole business game involves doing better than most of your competitors , the attempt to diversify away from one 's basic business , which so much experience elsewhere has shown to be an extremely difficult operation , is a risk that I have always tried to avoid . |
| 16 | While of course the extent of the solicitor 's duty is ultimately a question for the court , surely this is a mixed question of fact and law . |
| 17 | These correlations , while of interest , do not tell us much about the political substance of the ‘ class'/party link , but Butler and Stokes pursued this further by soliciting ‘ free ’ responses concerning the reasons for identification with one or other party . |
| 18 | I had a back pocket full of readies as I planned on doing some Christmas shopping while up West and I had no intention of joining the Christmas Eve rush to the lingerie departments of the big stores , so the first thing was to get away from the temptation of the HMV shop . |
| 19 | While with ILEA Ms Clay , once the deputy head of a Midland school , led a team of advisers providing support for the health education curriculum on over 1,200 education establishments . |
| 20 | With phosphatidylethanolamine most of the cholesterol ( 85% ) was in the vesicular fraction , while with phosphatidylserine most of the cholesterol was in the non-vesicular fractions ( 80% ) . |
| 21 | I say with caution on slip and punch lace , since doubling the width of slip can give very long messy floats with some patterns , while with punch lace it can give too many stitches , side by side , knitted only with the fine yarn . |
| 22 | The reading undertaken while under stress — while waiting for the dentist , for example , or while sitting in a plane during turbulence , or when fatigued at the end of the day — is usually of this order . |
| 23 | ( Unlike some birds , it does not dive vertically into the water , nor does it pursue the fish while under water ; kingfishers are plunge-divers , who go rapidly straight to the target . ) |
| 24 | William Clark , who was press adviser to Anthony Eden during his premiership , wrote , while under sentence of death from the cancer of which he died last year , a book of mémoires d'outre tombe in the unconventional yet quite literal sense of that description . |
| 25 | Chief amongst them was Roger Mortimer of Wigmore , who had escaped from the Tower while under sentence of death . |
| 26 | He was believed by Iran to have been secretly detained by Iraq ; the latter maintained , however , that he had died while under detention , a claim supported by the ICRC which , in September , indicated that it had received his death certificate . |
| 27 | A report published by the human rights organization Amnesty International on Aug. 21 contained further claims that hundreds of people had been killed while under detention between November 1990 and March 1991 [ for April report see p. 38135 ] . |
| 28 | The main issues before the Appeal Court were the authenticity of confessions said to have been made by the defendants while under detention , and the conduct of the police . |
| 29 | Can you solve puzzles while under attack from Zombis ? |
| 30 | Then , while under contract to both RKO and David O Selznick , he was cast by director William Wellman as a tough army captain in The Story of GI Joe ( 1945 ) , for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar . |