Example sentences of "whilst [det] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst that remains a possibility , it would be an extreme position to adopt , and it is still possible to visualize a full role for a dynasty of Minoan kings . |
| 2 | Whilst some welcome the opportunity of early retirement , others see it as an unwanted imposition on their lives . |
| 3 | On the immediate constitutional front , corruption was attacked ; virtual representation was no longer seen as enough ; and whilst some attacked the rights of landed property in politics urging the principle that every man of means should be directly represented , some went further to attack the political privilege of all property arguing for the " rights of man " , complete equality , and a democratic republic based on the true sovereignty of all the people . |
| 4 | A spearman tried to bring him down with a lance thrust under the cuirass whilst another took a swing with a sword at the joints in the greaves on his legs . |
| 5 | In Somerset , for example , it was enough for one local newspaper to warn that Exmoor was a ‘ potential nuclear dump ’ , whilst another pinpointed the Polden Hills north of Bridgwater as the ‘ nuclear graveyard ’ . |
| 6 | Redundancy and dismissal were , not surprisingly , the most important reasons for job loss , but one survey found as much as one in five people who entered into unemployment did so after finishing a temporary job , whilst another put the proportion at only six per cent . |
| 7 | For instance one may find marked relief from taking warm drinks which would make another feel much worse ; one may have a high fever and sweats whilst another has no fever at all ; one may be hot and want to be uncovered and in the fresh air whilst another is hot yet wants to be covered up to his chin ; one may wish to continue his work whilst another might only wish to lie down and die and so on . |
| 8 | These are marked by three of the dancers whilst another performs a solo to a short phrase . |
| 9 | Whilst this provided an approach adopted in subsequent cases , the limitations of such a general principle have , more recently , been recognized in judgments of the House of Lords and Privy Council : see , for example , Governors of Peabody Donation Fund v. Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Co . |
| 10 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 11 | Whilst this means no standing dead timber , the possible survival of the elm as a hedgerow tree must be more beneficial , particularly since in these areas the elm is the principal farmland tree . |
| 12 | Whilst most recognized the coffin as a means of transporting the dead to an authorized place of disposal , some viewed it as a receptacle for a precious relic — so precious that the very thought of earth or elements contributing to its destruction should be avoided at all cost . |