Example sentences of "while [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would result in muscular development up to the clavicles for a man , preventing a ‘ droopy ’ looking chest , while for a woman it would cause a build-up of tissue leading into her cleavage , thus emphasising her bust . |
| 2 | One example of this is that the CEGB 's engineering costs for a new coal plant are expected to be 16 per cent higher than for the completion of the coal-fired Drax power station while for a new AGR it expects engineering costs to be 20 per cent lower than for the Heysham II prototype . |
| 3 | Dealings have to be in specified multiples : in the case of the 12% Halifax PIBS and 13.625% Leeds Permanent the dealing multiple is £50,000 ; Bradford & Bingley 's 11.625% and 13% PIBS have £10,000 as the multiple , while for a number — such as Britannia 13% , North of England 12.625% and Coventry 12.125% — the multiple is only £1,000 . |
| 4 | The terms unc in A form the superdiagonal and unc the infradiagonal , while for a square matrix of order ( n × n ) — or more simply , of order n — the elements |
| 5 | For an upward movement the massive response shown below is given , while for a downward movement only two impulses result , as shown at the top . |
| 6 | Both players are individually most sensitive and accomplished , while as a duo they seem to play with single mind . |
| 7 | And , as the rest of the century was to show , while as a consumer a workman might be a co-operator , at his place of work with rare exceptions he might not : even in the consumer movement 's own factories . |
| 8 | In the centre of Funchal are a number of relatively inexpensive , budget-priced hotels which , while of a basic and simple nature , are very clean and comfortable . |
| 9 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 10 | In the foreground part of an oven is being excavated , while behind a draughts-person is doing a scale plan of part of the site . |
| 11 | He could be amiable , even friendly on the surface , while underneath a lot of suppressed strong emotions were churning away . |
| 12 | You would come darkly near and let me feed on your open mouth , while with a generosity that was ready to offer you everything , my heart , my throat , my entrails , I gave you to hold in your awkward fist the sceptre of my passion . ’ |
| 13 | You will find that with a wedge the ball will travel most of the way in the air , while with a 5-iron the ball will roll most of the way to the hole . |
| 14 | Given a two-choice array , there is a 50 per cent possibility of a correct response occurring by chance , while with a four-choice array there is only a 25 per cent chance of a random response being correct . |
| 15 | THE parents of an 11-year-old girl stabbed to death by a woman psychopath released early from hospital while under a Mental Health Act detention order have accepted an undisclosed payment from Doncaster Health Authority , writes Colin Wright . |
| 16 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 17 | Disney initially claimed the vultures died while in a holding shed in which the ventilation system failed . |
| 18 | Once , while in a giant dolphin body , Apollo commandeered a boat full of merchants and redirected their craft to Delphi . |
| 19 | It was added that ‘ the typical film public ’ was avoiding the film and even engaging in ‘ verbal propaganda ’ against it , while in a number of cities — including Munich — it was expressly stated ‘ that frequently only the politically more active section of the population attended the documentary film , . |
| 20 | Thus in a rapidly growing population there will be relatively few older people , as in many contemporary Third World countries ; while in a stagnant population they will be relatively more numerous , and more of them will lack the support of children . |
| 21 | In one , for example , a casual labourer and his wife in their sixties lived with a woman of 79 , her son of 57 who was a street matchseller , and six younger tenants ; in another a woman of 68 was subletting to another woman of 65 , a crippled woman of sixty , and two others ; while in a third household a 71-year-old sandwich-man lived with an unrelated widow and widower of the same age and two younger tenants . |
| 22 | Another grandfather , a retired Manchester newsagent , would light the fires , mend shoes , and peel the potatoes , while in a south London stableman 's home the grandfather would clean the shoes and cook too — ‘ We always said we had two mothers and two fathers , always . ’ |
| 23 | The management of patients who mutilate themselves while in a disturbed state will include treatment of the disorder that has led to the disturbance and will invariably have to be initiated in the psychiatric inpatient setting . |
| 24 | ‘ … overdose while in a depressed state … balance of mind disturbed . ’ |
| 25 | Others seemed genuinely to be pleased with the way things were going , while in a third group discussion centred on how much more usefully the time could be spent with the National Childbirth Trust . |
| 26 | You 're a millionaire call while in a phone booth in Creeksville-in-the-Boondocks . |
| 27 | The average revenue per partner in a big firm is £960,000 , while in a second tier firm it is £390,000 . |
| 28 | Thirty per cent of children under 2 years of age have been found to have middle-ear disorders ( Reichman and Healey 1983 ) while in a survey of London nursery children Shah ( 1981 ) found evidence of unsuspected middle-ear infection in 35 per cent of the children . |
| 29 | Climbers ' eyes tend to be drawn to the cleanest and most direct route up a rock face , while in a similar way walkers piece together peaks and ridges to create their own ‘ direct ’ routes — albeit ( usually ) on a more horizontal plane . |
| 30 | ‘ … he said that a girl he knew once used to do it while in a handstand position . |