Example sentences of "while at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He smoked a pipe and drank while at primary school , was expelled from college , and spent his teen years seducing local girls on trains . |
| 2 | A constant flow of people was being seen by various clerks and secretaries , while at regular intervals one or other of the judges would be called away to advise on a particular problem or situation . |
| 3 | At high gain , about 40% of the reflections were flagged as saturated and were discarded , while at low gain , weak reflections ( 3 standard deviations ) were discarded as unreliable . |
| 4 | Some stories tell of botos coming up underneath canoes and taking off with the paddles , leaving a lone canoeist adrift on the river , while at other times the dolphin is said to have saved the lives of people from a capsized boat . |
| 5 | Sometimes this is done quite deliberately — he refuses to think about the event at all — while at other times it is his subconscious mind which ensures that he is no longer troubled by it . |
| 6 | Women sometimes are virtuous , while at other times they only appear so in order to lure men to destruction . |
| 7 | A decisive victory in a battle brought patriotic celebration , while at other times when things were going less well the failure to seek a peace could swing sentiment the other way . |
| 8 | By allowing unmediated access to a character 's mind the narrator constructs a close bond between reader and character based upon shared information and perspective , while at other times witholding the reader from that mind so that narrator and reader stand together in a position of judgemental distance . |
| 9 | An additional factor is that in speaking English we vary in how rhythmically we speak : sometimes we speak very rhythmically ( this is typical of some styles of public speaking ) while at other times we speak arhythmically ( that is , without rhythm ) — for example , when we are hesitant or nervous . |
| 10 | Here Oldknow centralized warping and winding , with some weaving , while at nearby Heaton Mersey he established a sizeable finishing works under the control of his brother , Thomas . |
| 11 | Some 24 per cent of children drop out at the transition from primary to secondary school , while at secondary level there has recently been a significant rise in the drop-out rate . |
| 12 | Interesting William Thompson , nQue 's founder and an old Unix soldier , developed the key technologies in Lachman Associates ' Stream-based NFS and TCP/IP while at Convergent Technologies and later joined Lachman . |
| 13 | William Thompson , nQue 's founder and an old Unix soldier , developed the key technologies in Lachman Associates Inc 's Streams-based Network File System and TCP/IP while at Convergent Technologies Inc and later joined Lachman . |