Example sentences of "while at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At Pompeii and Herculaneum there are examples of the domus and the villa while at Ostia can be seen considerable remains of insulae .
2 Except soldiers and airmen when on active service and mariners while at sea , no infant can dispose of his property by will .
3 Roman medallions were made in small quantities and so the die would be likely to survive , while at Dalisandos no coinage was made in the intervening years .
4 ON DISPLAY : Allt na Giubhsaich , one of the views painted by Prince Charles while at Balmoral in 1985 .
5 They correctly argue that the club should not suffer for his indiscretion while at Chelsea .
6 These qualities were already present to a degree in certain early works , such as the Forfar town hall and the contemporary Kirriemuir church , while at Melville the somewhat perfunctory detail in the castellated style is accompanied by other features reminiscent of the work of Sir John Soane [ q.v. ] ; but his style developed rapidly after his Parisian visit of 1787 , when he doubtless encountered at first hand the revolutionary architecture of E.-L .
7 The human losses mounted rapidly , and the extension of recruitment to those just eighteen years old and those already forty-five extended the worries about loved ones at the Front into almost every family , while at home their losses to farming and industry had to be made good , as far as possible , with more prisoners-of-war and ‘ foreign workers ’ .
8 Maintaining safety in relation to medications is a personal responsibility while at home .
9 It was always intended that single men would have their pension rights protected while at home looking after children or dependent relatives , but it was not until the regulations were published in January 1978 that it was clear that married men would be included .
10 For she found herself incapable of struggling against it , as others did ; while at home , she made no efforts to alleviate her lot .
11 In foreign affairs , his first priority was to end the Vietnam War , while at home he made a frank appeal to what came to be called " middle america " : the " good , decent , tax-paying , law-abiding people , the forgotten Americans " .
12 It was absurd that Norman Ward Westerman and Lord Boddy should listen with real deference to his views on Halifax , while at home he could n't even get a hearing from his own wife .
13 In public , people tried to carry on with their lives , while at home they were starting to prepare for what was to come .
14 • Voluntary work you may have done while at home will be prized by an employer .
15 He continued his education at the Shrewsbury Technical School until 1911 , while at home he emerged as a votary of John Keats [ q.v. ] and a model of Christian piety .
16 But if the woman cotton worker were married to a miner or an engineer , then the husband usually refused to do housework , his substantially higher earnings gave him breadwinner status and , notwithstanding his wife 's employment , the right to leisure while at home .
17 Firms of English solicitors are to be found all over the world , while at home , complex legislation , the increasing need for financial services and growing domestic demand has led to a growth in the need for solicitors .
18 Lochhead 's script is a joy , depicting through its energetic vernacular dialogue the texture of small-town Scottish life in the period , when girls carried bottles of Evening in Paris in their knickers and were in love with Montgomery Clift ; when the pictures cost 1/9d and the Locarno Ballroom on Sauchiehall Street was the place to be on a Saturday night , while at home fathers sat taciturn in armchairs , not listening to their wives .
19 In sport , India will play England in a one-day cricket international in Bangalore on Friday , while at home there are important Scottish Premier League matches involving clubs at the top and bottom of the league .
20 In Herefordshire he was a JP and several times a commissioner to investigate disturbances , while at court he was entrusted , among other responsibilities , with a number of diplomatic missions .
21 At Penguin , trading profits were £26.3m — and increase of 101% or , if the impact of the Smithmark and New York lease problems of the previous year is excluded , of 31.5% — while at Longman , operating profits were up by a hefty 38% , to £23.5m .
22 His research on ‘ bio-energetics ’ led him to develop the prize-winning chemiosmotic theory while at Edinburgh University in the early 1960s .
23 The brothers were interested in being screened if we could offer a predictive test based on DNA studies , rather than having bowel examinations while at 50% risk .
24 She says that changing her accent while at university was not easy for her parents to accept .
25 John Fowles , a student of French literature while at university , talks in The French Lieutenant 's Woman of ‘ the lessons of existentialist philosophy ’ ( Fowles 1969 and 1977 : 63 ) and of working in ‘ the age of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Roland Barthes … the theoreticians of the nouveau roman ’ ( p. 188 ) .
26 Gedge continued to reach for his guitar while at university and drifted in and out of various lineups .
27 Once while at University he was bored with a rugby injury so he borrowed a comrade 's marathon number from an injured friend and completed the 90km race in 8–1/2 hours .
28 While at University Glass 's musical taste was somewhat surprising .
29 She was converted to pacifism by the Quaker Hilda Clark , while at university during the Boer war .
30 Her own son , now an engineer with an oil company in the States , had back-packed round Europe while at university and she remembered his homecoming , his hair bleached by the sun , seemingly taller and more mature , full of tales of the people he had met along the way .
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