Example sentences of "for [art] while the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the while the war went on . |
| 2 | Typical are the films written by T. E. B. Clarke , such as Passport to Pimlico ( 1949 ) , about a community whose discovery that it is an independent Burgundian principality enables the inhabitants to forget for a while the realities of post-war austerity , and The Lavender Hill Mob ( 1951 ) , about a bank clerk who robs a bank . |
| 3 | For a while the French government maintained a stony silence about the affair , claiming it was beneath its dignity to comment on allegations that the DGSE had been involved . |
| 4 | For a while the palazzo became an important meeting point of the political and artistic halves of the city , but history does not specify whether in the longer term Sgr Greppi was admitted to the ranks of noblemen . |
| 5 | The decision to compete with the fiction lending libraries altered things , but for a while the old remedy of pulping was resorted to , sometimes with amusing consequences as the flood of popular titles reached ever greater strength . |
| 6 | For a while the breed flourished and became a regular winner of dairy-class prizes , but the Second World War saw the start of a decline , though the breed society was revitalised in 1948 . |
| 7 | Although the great whales may be relatively safe for a while the International Whaling Commission regulation does not cover any of the small cetaceans which are being slaughtered in huge numbers around the world . |
| 8 | Although for a while the new venture flourished , far outstripping its neighbour , Rye , it was never the success its royal founder had hoped . |
| 9 | If you have an ordinary video recorder which does not have ‘ backspace ’ or ‘ fine edit ’ , you will probably have noticed , when changing from one recording to the next , that for a while the picture is spoilt by various forms of disturbance that take several seconds to clear . |
| 10 | But this merely delayed for a while the inevitable . |
| 11 | The wooden walls shook and the alien noise echoed around the small building , and for a while the noise stopped . |
| 12 | After practising this for a while the next stage was to get the wing overhead . |
| 13 | For a while the other five members dug in their heels and also refused to alter their stance . |
| 14 | The gardens of Japan were designed for recreation , and as places where friends could meet and talk , forgetting for a while the worries of the day . |
| 15 | The people began to recover from the horrors of the long war with Chaos and for a while the population grew . |
| 16 | Thus , ‘ mental illness ’ was seen as a label by which genuine human responses to oppressive social conditions were reduced to mental faults , requiring technical ( in this case medical ) solutions ; for a while the ‘ new deviance ’ attempted to incorporate writers as different as R. D. Laing and Thomas Szasz from what was temporarily known as ‘ anti-psychiatry ’ . |
| 17 | Her warm and wide smile greeted me at the door and I forgot for a while the riddles and innuendos which surrounded Brian Harley and hid the killer of Froggy Davies . |
| 18 | The war and the domestic Russian situation together did , however , shelve for a while the problem of confrontation in Northeast Asia . |
| 19 | After living in London for a while the couple spent a few days in Bournemouth and on St Swithun 's Day 1875 they came by steamer to Swanage . |
| 20 | Then , for a while the character was named Tanni , before it finally got changed , on Spooner 's rewrite , to Vicki . |
| 21 | But in the meantime how pleasant it is to find oneself arriving in the evening for the first time in some lively little English market town , where one can forget for a while the noisy onward march of science , and settle down to meditate upon the civilised past . |
| 22 | For a while the Caterpillar smoked its pipe . |
| 23 | For a while the authorities had replaced the Bunsen burners , test-tubes , textbooks and phials of chemicals which fell victim to the ravages of the undisciplined , but they had been forced to accept defeat . |
| 24 | For a while the two men were silent . |
| 25 | Cindy began to cry again and for a while the two of them sat in silence , gently swinging to and fro . |
| 26 | For a while the notion gripped him , and he prowled the many floors of Hamleys looking for toys . |
| 27 | For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees . |
| 28 | One can forget for a while the rigours faced everyday and appreciate wholeheartedly the kind of escapism that lies at the root of ‘ The Passionate Shepherd to his love ’ and ‘ The Garden ’ and all other poems which make up the pastoral garden . |
| 29 | ‘ For a while the cricket club was badly funded and something of an outcast . |
| 30 | For a while the television channel went off the air as protesters swarmed into the building , before troops and government supporters pushed them out . |