Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] while [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What shall I do to keep my mind off that thought while the day passes ? ’ |
| 2 | In Sinhala areas most Ceylon Tamils were of high caste while a majority of Indian Tamils were of low caste . |
| 3 | One patient was a man aged 58 of British descent while the other was of Libyan Jewish origin . |
| 4 | Fig. 11 : The electronics divides into two parts : the exciter section drives the core into saturation with a current ramp of alternating polarity while the measurement section integrates the pickup coil pulses caused by the action of a static magnetic field on the core . |
| 5 | There 'd been an uneasy truce , a kind of businesslike friendliness while the matter of the fair at the Palazzo Parisio was handled and finalised . |
| 6 | But its skill at the wheel remains a matter of legitimate debate while the audience is temporarily neglected . |
| 7 | The popular myth paints a homely picture of the Queen Mother ducking around Diana as she schooled her in the subtle arts of royal protocol while the Queen 's senior lady-in-waiting , Lady Susan Hussey took the young woman aside for tuition in regal history . |
| 8 | A variable number of these appendages may become transformed into organs that are functional during post-embryonic life while the remainder disappear . |
| 9 | Recently , photographers have discovered , via the zoom lens , the aesthetic possibilities of putting a distant object into hard focus while the foreground is fuzzy . |
| 10 | Regular endoscopic surveillance for gastric cancer may be beneficial and realistic in young patients with pernicious anaemia while the importance of fundic endocrine cell hyperplasia and that of small gastric carcinoids need further study . |
| 11 | Ca n't hurt to try , she thought , unjacking her computer with one claw while the other typed four letters . |
| 12 | It is amazing how often one sees a smoker tugging at his or her steering wheel with one hand while the other seeks to introduce the lighted item to those waiting lips . |
| 13 | She held it with one hand while the other went to her throat , as Nellie 's face appeared at the door . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At Plowden was a road bridge built of transverse timbers with gaps in between ; it was here , on one of our journeys , that we sighted a cow with all four legs fallen through the gaps and its horns waving over the line ; Cadwallader ( the guard ) had had to pull it by the horns with main force while the station master sat on its head and Whitaker slowly drew the coaches past . |
| 16 | I shall want one of the senior staff in each department while the search is going on . |
| 17 | The husband is in full-time employment while the wife is not . |
| 18 | Yet others say that the dependant refused to allow them to go away and would not receive help from another source while the carer was receiving treatment . |
| 19 | But it 's not a simple process , the ewes can reject the lambs , so she 's held in this restraint while the lamb is introduced , giving it a chance to suckle and allowing the mother to get used to it . |
| 20 | We spent five days moored in this inlet while the barge was unloaded . |
| 21 | Using the numerous hollows and small rises unnoticed to untrained soldiers on a bare hillside , Turton and his men once lay hidden in this deadground while the Japanese moving to encircle them passed by , leaving the Australian patrol to come off the hill at nightfall . |
| 22 | They sat for a while in thoughtful silence while the shower passed from the surface of the lake and the light hiss of the rain ceased . |
| 23 | It was for the cost of having the floor relaid and also for consequential losses ( i.e. lost profits arising from lost production while the factory was closed to enable the floor to be relaid ) . |
| 24 | He waited in growing irritation while a woman minutely described her missing cat , and impressed on the desk-sergeant that it would only answer to the name Roger . |
| 25 | This process is referred to as the PHOTOLYSIS OF WATER since the overall effect is to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen , the oxygen being evolved in molecular form while the hydrogen combines with a hydrogen acceptor . |
| 26 | Never leave the head stationary in one place while the machine is switched on and producing steam . |
| 27 | They all stared at the needle stuck in one place while the record continued to revolve . |
| 28 | £80 a week for temporary accommodation while a home is in the process of being sold . |
| 29 | SCOTVEC courses for beginners are on the basis of a half day per week for one year while the NWRAC Home Machine Knitting Course requires a full day per week for two years , or three if Part 2 is included . |
| 30 | Cohen also suggests that the reason for this dominance is that the left hemisphere is specially suited to serial processing while the right controls spatial processing . |